Planning for the future – new resources available to inspire futures thinking
Make the Future
A new video looking at ideas drawn in the main from research commissioned under the Beyond Current Horizons programme, is now available. The video, entitled Make the future, considered futures for education in the light of social and technological change over the next two decades. The video aims to inspire education leaders to think differently about the future of education and to consider the challenges and possibilities for 21st century schools.
The video is available to watch at www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/multimedia/video/Video1589 .
Vision Mapper
Another source of information to help plan for the future is www.visionmapper.org.uk, a free web resource designed to help examine the future of education beyond 2025. The resources provided are designed to support education leadership, including headteachers, department heads, local authorities and school redesign consortia to approach long-term planning and decision making with an informed view of the future.
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