Future-ready learning: What are the small steps that can help learning organisations turn to face a critical future of planetary change and help young people thrive in a changing world?

Bridget McKenzie, Flow

Flow is key to small steps of change

Flow’s Thrivable Culture framework

We used it in our Future Views research

Now Near FutureFar FutureIdentify

the current drivers for change.

Focus on the impact. What will this

mean?

Develop ideas. What

new things will exist?

ImagineWhat will our future world

be like?

Young people said…

Worried about:• Climate change• Automation taking jobs• Creative opportunities

being squeezed

Hopeful about:• Technology offering

solutions• Forming a ‘creative army’

Seeing the world

Sensing & making the world

Thinking about the

world

Responding to the world & playing

Techniques and methods

Abstract symbols and logic

Imagining and inventing

Seeing and

sensing

A thriving creative person

Schools are

here

KS4 is here

Techniques and methods

Abstract symbols and logic

Imagining and inventing

Seeing and

sensing

A thriving creative person

How to get them

here?

Techniques and methods

Abstract symbols and logic

Imagining and inventing

Seeing and

sensing

A thriving creative person

How to get them

here?

USUALLY WE DEMAND MORE IN

THIS ZONE

USUALLY WE DEMAND MORE IN

THIS ZONE

Techniques and methods

Abstract symbols and logic

Imagining and inventing

Seeing and

sensing

A thriving creative person

How to get them

here?

BUT WE NEED CHANGES TO:• MODES OF THINKING

• MODES OF QUESTIONING• PRINCIPLES OF ORGANISING

ACROSS THE BOARD

Techniques and methods

Abstract symbols and logic

Imagining and inventing

Seeing and

sensing

A thriving creative person

More systems thinking here

More open-ended thinking

here

More empathetic

thinking here

More ecological thinking here

MODES OF THINKING

Techniques and methods

Abstract symbols and logic

Imagining and inventing

Seeing and

sensing

A thriving creative person

Systems thinking

Open-ended thinking

Empathetic thinking

Ecological thinking

MODES OF QUESTIONINGBetter ‘what’

questions

More ‘why’ questions

More ‘how’ questions

Finding more questions

Techniques and methods

Abstract symbols and logic

Imagining and inventing

Seeing and

sensing

A thriving creative person

More PEERAGOGY

here

More PLAY here

More PLURALITY

here

More PRAXIS here

PRINCIPLES OF ORGANISING

Systems thinking

Empathetic thinking

Ecological thinking

Open-ended thinking

‘What’

‘Why’

‘How’

‘Not knowing’

Future-ready learning: What are the small steps that can help learning organisations turn to face a critical future of planetary change and help young people thrive in a changing world?

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