Touching on a vision for the future of schools
Explore the FutureFounded in 1996, headquartered in Shanghai with business across over 20 Chinese provinces and cities as well as overseas markets including the US and Singapore. Directly operates over 10 schools and education institutions, accommodating more than 10,000 students and staff members.
The foremost global catalyst for leveraging exponential technologies, including artificial intelligence, robotics, digital biology, and nanotechnology, to create a more abundant world.
Catalyzes interactions between educational organizations and external communities of innovation, provides leadership training for school innovation processes and develops future ready curricula to accelerate school development.
Change is coming faster than you think, and legacy thinking needs challenged
Radical organizational vision is appropriate and needed
It's time to review which value propositions will be sustainable after 5-10 years
"Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation comes from perpendicular thinking." - Peter Diamandis
At any given time, our expectations of change in the future are typically based on projecting our current pace of change forward in a linear way.
"In the 21st century we won't experience 100 years of progress. It will be more like 20,000 years of progress." - Ray Kurzweil
"No industry is immune… industries with regulatory barriers or large infrastructure costs will feel greater effects of shifts created by the next generation of IT breakthroughs." - Harvard Business Review, 2017
At least 40% of core workforce threatened
Global internet access, 4.2 Billion new people online
40%-80% of today's jobs threatened
80% of core workforce skills threatened
Based on research from: McKinsey, PWC, World Economic Forum, Gartner, Deloitte
Examples of technologies currently converging in education
"Our objective is to replace teachers."
Data Analytics for student engagement and attention monitoring
IoT and Data Analytics for health and learning optimization
Secure, verifiable credentials and learning records
"That profile contains a detailed accounting of everything that affects a student's learning process" - Kai-Fu Lee
AI-powered student profile, continuously compiling and analyzing data for deeper insights and personally tailored curriculum.
Disruptions don't offer tech versions of what we have now, they create alternative methods to obtain the benefits we value.
What benefits does a school offer in a future with inexpensive, empathetic, AI-driven expert instructors that provide always-on, personalised curricula, verifiable and sharable proof of skills and know us better than we know ourselves?
Build more direct and open relationships with communities of innovation, employment pathways, industry & community. Become a point at which the world meets for students.
Applying Design Thinking Methodology to Primary School Curriculum Innovation
Exploring & Engaging External Partners for Innovation, e.g., piloting China's first class with Level Up Village
Foster Teacher Innovation & Entrepreneurial Thinking
Developing Teacher Metrics, Leadership Metrics & Hiring Profiles Based on Needs of Future Models
Linear and legacy thinking needs to be challenged to match an exponential reality – change is coming faster than you think
Leadership needs to develop a radical organizational vision, communicate it effectively and engage stakeholders
Analyze carefully which value propositions you offer that will still be sustainable in the coming 5-10 years
Explore innovative partnerships and new models of organizing school activities
Develop hiring and professional development strategies for future needs
Group Director – Curriculum, Assessment & Learning