The Learning Future Podcast with Louka Parry

What do the innovative architects of education sound like? How might they imagine channels that defy the “trickle-down” model of success by delivering high-tech and advantageous tools of education and employment directly to all? In this Third episode of Education Transformed, Louka speaks with John Goodwin and Chris Purifoy. LEF’s mission to bring quality skills and equal opportunity to every huma...

In this second episode of Education Transformed, Louka speaks with Dr Anantha Duraiappah , Director of the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development. A depthful discussion about the whole brain approach to learning and education, including a confident approach to digital pedagogy, where neuroscience technology is applied to learning and teaching as a potent...

Find out which countries are embarking on true education transformation and discover why transformation might be the best way to articulate the changes we need in schools and education systems. View the report: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformation Today's episode is with educationalist, convenor, and non-profit leader Dominic Regester. Dominic is...

Louka Parry introduces a season 7: “Education Transformed” a series of conversations that aren’t afraid to leave behind past preconceptions to allow for real unhindered bold change and innovation in learning and education - both practical examples and plans for the future. Season 7 is partnered with the Salzburg Global Seminar . thelearningfuture.com

Louka reflects on the last season the "d.school Spotlight" that featured 10 insightful authors affiliated with the Hasso Platner Institute of Design at Stanford . Please revisit any these season 6 episodes that pique your interest: ‘My Favorite Failure’ with Laura McBain & Ron BeGhetto Spotify - Apple ‘Navigating Ambiguity’ with Kelly Schmutte Spotify - Apple ‘The Secret Language of Maps’ with...

In this tenth and final episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Sam Seidel  hustles up valuable guiding principles for building a network - people - practice template for creation. A clear recipe, with enlightening examples, of people who have been successful with via more ‘alternate’ means, with side hustles becoming front and centre! Sam is an author of the illustrated dschool guide Cre...

In this ninth episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Charlotte Burgess-Auburn conjures radical innovative thinking, a fundamentally novel and useful way of looking at design via flexible prototyping! She is author of the illustrated dschool guide You Need a Manifesto . Ever struggle with a decision? Perhaps lacked a sense of purpose or drive? Every been challenged by a dilemma? Charlotte Burg...

In this eighth episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Scott Witthoft conjures radical innovative thinking, a fundamentally novel and useful way of looking at design via flexible prototyping! He is author of dschool guide This is a Prototype . What is a prototype, how can we approach their design and creation, and what is their utility? Scott Witthoft works as an educator, designer, and author...

In this seventh episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Lisa Kay Solomon gives a peek of the thoughts around her upcoming book about her recent innovative civics exercises with learners. Are our systems designed for short term rewards and is the design of civics and business at odds with the future? The conversation features a broad range of topics from design, futures, civics, the importance...

In this sixth episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Barry Svigals gives a peek of the thoughts around his book Changing the Conversation about School Safety . Published as a d.school guide . Read it here: https://issuu.com/stanforddschool/docs/changingtheconversationaboutschoolsafety-k12lab. Can over-securing reduce feelings of enjoyment and senses of safety? How does might an obsession with...

In this fifth episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Susie Wise, author of Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities clarifies the subject and discusses how she arrived at the approaches of her book. Published as a d.school guide . The feeling of belonging is a fundamental human need. It's how we know we can show up, be ourselves, and thus enables lear...

In the fourth instalment of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Ashish Goel, author of Drawing on Courage: Risks Worth Taking and Stands Worth Making discusses the life canvas, inspirations, insights, and sources for him to publish his most recent book. Published as a d.school guide . Ashish forms a strong case for courage, the depth of courage, which is often only granted thankful or cursory visitat...

In the third spotlight of the Stanford d.school guides; Carissa Carter, author of The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data helps us navigate the far horizons and surprisingly detailed depths of maps. Maps are biased towards any number of variables - often driven by agenda or intention of the mapmakers. Carissa acts as a cartographer of the multi-faceted fields of mapmaking...

In this second instalment of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Kelly Schmutte, co-author of Navigating Ambiguity: Creating Opportunity in a World of Unknowns (alongside Andrea Small, illustrated by Reina Takahashi) shares ideas about confidently approaching ambiguity and ambiguous situations with confident curiosity. She discusses how ambiguity should be seen as an asset, it enables freedom of outc...

The first feature of the Stanford d.school spotlight has Laura McBain and Dr Ronald Beghetto , authors of My Favorite Failure . They share ideas about consciously engineering learning and experience with uncertainty and surprise as an ingredient. Perhaps we are too rigorously over-engineering education and human experience to the point of unnatural predictability? Ronald and Laura discuss how they...

View CSE paper 06 titled “Learning on purpose” by Charles Leadbeater and the Student Agency Lab and also, CSE paper 07 titled “Learning in a floating world of disciplines: Reflections on the MetaPraxis Project” by Michael Bunce. Louka reviews the amazing takeaways shared by frontline educators during AISSA’s agency lab 3-year project featuring lessons of agency from Charles Leadbeater and stories...

Featured Guests: Karen Schoff - Good Shepherd School Veronika Crilley - St. Johns Grammar Joyanne Gardner - St. Johns Grammar MetaPraxis is a 3-year approach led by educational philosopher and researcher Michael Bunce. MetaPraxis educators experience going beyond disciplines to move into the multi-dimensionality of learning, fusing knowledge skills, and capabilities so that our young people may th...

Featured Guests: Graham Duffy - Pembroke School, Andrea Feldhoff - Pembroke School, Melanie Krueger - Trinity College North, Jessica Simons - Trinity College North, Catherine Emmerson - St. Johns Grammar School. MetaPraxis is a 3-year approach led by educational philosopher and researcher Michael Bunce. Hosted by The Learning Future’s very own Louka Parry, this four-part series features front-line...

Featured Guests: Jo Rossiter - Annesley Primary School, David Taylor - Annesley Junior School, Mayra Franco - Walford Anglican School, Sam Bartram - Walford Anglican School, Julie Sampson - Cornerstone College, Rhett Fielke - Cornserstone College. MetaPraxis is a 3-year approach led by educational philosopher and researcher Michael Bunce. Hosted by The Learning Future’s very own Louka Parry, this...

The MetaPraxis is a 3-year approach led by educational philosopher and researcher Michael Bunce. Hosted by The Learning Future’s very own Louka Parry, this four-part series features front-line educators who have experience with MetaPraxis by going beyond disciplines to move into the multi-dimensionality of learning, fusing knowledge skills, and capabilities so that our young people may thrive into...

How do we be more on purpose, and less on point and create learning with rigour but not rigidity? How do we elevate voice, choice and initiative knowing that as we do so we create more freedom and more responsibility? In this episode of our 10-part special series on Learner Agency we discuss how students bring agency to life. This is the tenth lesson for agency shared by global education expert Ch...

How do we be more on purpose, and less on point and create learning with rigour but not rigidity? How do we elevate voice, choice and initiative knowing that as we do so we create more freedom and more responsibility? In this episode of our 10-part special series on Learner Agency we discuss how students bring agency to life. This is the ninth lesson for agency shared by global education expert Ch...

How do we be more on purpose, and less on point and create learning with rigour but not rigidity? How do we elevate voice, choice and initiative knowing that as we do so we create more freedom and more responsibility? In this episode of our 10-part special series on Learner Agency we discuss how students bring agency to life. This is the eight lesson for agency shared by global education expert Ch...

How do we be more on purpose, and less on point and create learning with rigour but not rigidity? How do we elevate voice, choice and initiative knowing that as we do so we create more freedom and more responsibility? In this episode of our 10-part special series on Learner Agency we discuss how students bring agency to life. This is the seventh lesson for agency shared by global education expert...

How do we be more on purpose, and less on point and create learning with rigour but not rigidity? How do we elevate voice, choice and initiative knowing that as we do so we create more freedom and more responsibility? In this episode of our 10-part special series on Learner Agency we discuss how students bring agency to life. This is the sixth lesson for agency shared by global education expert Ch...