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JOIN US FOR THIS DEEP DIVE!
ONE FOOT
IN THE FUTURE
2-DAY ONLINE WORKSHOP - $249 USD July 15 & 22, 10 am-12 pm US ET
Join BQI Co-Founder Will Richardson on a four-hour journey over two days that will provoke, inspire, and nurture real optimism for the future. This powerful workshop will cover frameworks, tools, and lenses to help educators imagine what comes next.
"The One Foot in the Future workshop is the most personally valuable time I've spent thinking about my teaching, in particular, and schooling, in general, in the past several years."
~Zachary Shank, Central New Mexico Community College
ONE BIG QUESTION:
How do we put "One Foot in the Future" to better understand the challenges and opportunities our children will be grappling with?
Playful. Collaborative. Practical. Connected. Urgent.
This is a unique new online workshop that you and your team will not want to miss.
We'll explore emerging new tools, mindsets, and practices that will build our imagination muscles and develop our collective ability to create a better future for schools.
Educators can no longer "wait and see" what happens next. Instead, we must now see and feel the future we want beforehand and create it with imagination and hope.
With our students, we can build a better future of learning in schools together. The time to start is now.
Will Richardson's "One Foot in the Future" workshop will motivate you to take action in your personal as well as professional life.
"ONE FOOT IN THE FUTURE"
In this two-day deep dive workshop, you will:
Build your capacity to understand and feel the emerging future.
Play in the space of “radical imagination."
Learn how to create “imagination infrastructures.”
Practice the skill of “Design Fiction.”
Understand what it means to be an “archeologist of the future.”
Learn practical ways to begin to create futures cultures in your own practice and in your school community.
Learn how to help your students build and flex their own imagination muscles.
Become a member of the “Schoolpunk” movement
Have fun, find more joy for the future, and build deeper connections with educators from around the world.
Learn practical ways to begin to create futures cultures in your own practice and in your school community.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
Regenerative Design
Designing an experience that considers all of the living things that are impacted by our (schools’) existence.
"Schoolpunk"
Framing a compelling vision for a new way of thinking about education and schooling that we can begin to build together.
Design Fiction
Imagining, creating, and interrogating artifacts that might be found in the future, making us “archeologists of the future” in a practical sense.
ChatGPT
The ways in which ChatGPT is disrupting the education world and the implications for teachers and students.
Impact of AI
Generative AI programs that create artworks, music, and more can be powerful tools to impact our creativity and our imaginations in schools and beyond.
Fearless Inquiry
Ways to develop the disposition of asking "big" questions about our current practices and our future path and being willing to embrace the truths that might surface.
Imagination Infrastructures
New ways to develop our ability to imagine a better future, as individuals, as school cultures, and entire school communities.
Our "Epic Design Challenges"
How the speed and existential nature of change is creating an urgent need to fundamentally rethink the structures, systems, and purposes of schools.
ONE FOOT IN THE FUTURE WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
Cost: $249
Dates: July 15 & 22, 2023
Time: 10am - 12pm US ET
Will Richardson's "One Foot in the Future" workshop will build your capacity to create a better educational future for the children you serve.
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
Will Richardson
A former public school educator of 22 years, Will has spent the last 15 years developing an international reputation as a leading thinker and writer about the intersection of social online learning networks, education, and systemic change. Most recently, Will is a co-founder of The Big Questions Institute which was created to help educators use "fearless inquiry" to make sense of this complex moment and an uncertain future.
In 2017, Will was named one of 100 global "Changemakers in Education" by the Finnish site HundrED, and was named one of the Top 5 "Edupreneurs to Follow" by Forbes. He has given keynote speeches, led breakout sessions, and provided coaching services in over 30 countries on 6 continents. (Come on Antarctica!) He has also authored six books that have sold over 200,000 copies worldwide, and given TEDx Talks in New York, Melbourne, and most recently Vancouver.
In addition to his focus and expertise on classroom pedagogies, learning theory, and emerging technologies and trends, his current interests include the use of Design Fiction, Speculative Design, and Regenerative Design to help schools and districts envision potential futures.
Will has two adult children, Tess and Tucker, and lives in rural New Jersey with his wife Wendy.
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