The Future of Education

In February 2006, Sir Ken Robinson released what later became the most-watched ever TED Talk, ‘Do Schools Kill Creativity’. Both the talk and the subsequent traction highlighted the fact that while society has changed enormously in the past two centuries, the way we educate children has remained static – and fallen behind.

With the rise of an interconnected, digital age charactised by complex, unpredictable network effects and constantly evolving digital technologies, education needs to re-orient itself to focus not only on knowledge transfer, or even skills, but, as Otto Scharmer puts it, on 'activating deep sources of learning’.

Project Unbound are currently  working with a pioneering global education organisation to chart the future development of curriculum around positive education and adaptive learning and meet the challenges of 21st century flourishing in a more inclusive world...