learning {re}imagined

from Graham Brown-Martin..

I’m thrilled to have been chosen to write the next book for the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE).

To be released in 2014 this new publication will focus on the link between technology and education by investigating how the connected society is transforming learning. 

This could be one of the most exciting projects I have worked on and in some ways is a tangible culmination of the past 8 years of my career in the creation of Learning Without Frontiers and more recently Education Design Labs I follow in the footsteps of previous WISE authors, Charles Leadbeater who wrote Innovations in Education and Valerie Hannon who authored Learning a Living. In such auspicious company I can only do my best to meet the benchmark they have set.

Between now and the rest of this year I will be traveling the world to meet and learn from some of the foremost thought leaders and practitioners working at the intersection between learning and digital where along with a shifting society the crucible of innovation, disruption and transformation is white-hot.

Accompanied by one of Iran’s most acclaimed young photographers, Newsha Tavakolian and assisted by Raphael Yaghobzadeh we will be telling a story about how the world of learning is changing as well as the challenges ahead that sometimes wisely, sometimes frustratingly prevent transformation of a key aspect of society – education.

Over the coming months we will be in Ghana, Dubai, Lebanon, Jordan, USA, Singapore, Brazil, Russia, China, India, Qatar and the UK meeting, filming and recording with inspiring thinkers and doers from across the spectrum of learning and digital.

At the end of this project we will have a beautifully illustrated printed book that features an app for smart phones and tablets that will reveal an evolving digital layer of rich media “hovering” above the pages.

Our mission is to get under the skin of the debate around technology in education to understand and report back what is working and what are the obstacles as well as the triumphs.