RESEARCH

We pride ourselves on ensuring our work is always informed by cutting-edge experimentation, futures-thinking, and active inquiry into critical questions about the future of learning.

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we exist to tackle big questions LIKE...

How might we scale successful models of creative learning with technology throughout a national education system?

How might we design teacher professional development that inspires and supports K-12 educators to take risks with learning technologies?

How might we design interdisciplinary experiences and products that equip children with the skills, behaviors and mindsets to address the future with optimism and creativity?

 

intercultural computing.

In collaboration with academic partners at Cornell University and the University of Michigan, we are actively exploring computing education as a potential site for intercultural learning and encounter in post-conflict environments in Kenya, and K-12 settings in the United States.

Read the research at the School of Intercultural Computing.


equity perspectives On AI education for k-12.

To cultivate the digital agency of students and educators, we are working with the Stanford d.school to build on existing frameworks for AI in K-12 education through the inclusion of equity-centered questions, practices and design.

Read at CHI2020 Fair + Responsible AI.


market research: curriculum on skills for the future of work.

In partnership with graduate students at George Washington University, we are conducting market research on the demand, creation, accessibility and diffusion of global curricula around “the skills of the future”, and the way it’s defined and assessed by various stakeholders across the public and private sectors.

Preview the highlights here.