Future of Learning

PROGRAM DETAILS

Future of Learning

August 2-6, 2010

Tuition Fee: $2,300

Program Overview

The Future of Learning is designed to help educators understand how changes in society are affecting learning today and in the future. It invites educators to examine what, where and how children and adults should learn in order to thrive in the 21st century. When teachers embrace learning for the future, they nurture competencies such as expert thinking, collaboration and entrepreneurship. They foster intercultural understanding, environmental stewardship and global citizenship. They invite students to understand complex problems and to produce, create and express themselves through traditional and new digital media. Their ultimate goal is to prepare students to live ethical and reflective lives in rapidly changing environments.

Program Objectives

Who Should Attend

The Future of Learning is designed for practicing teachers, curriculum designers and administrators. Educators developing instructional materials and technologies, teacher educators and those working in informal education settings such as museums and NGOs, are encouraged to attend. Those who have previously attended the PZC institute are also encouraged to attend. Fluency in English is mandatory.

Faculty Co-Chairs

Veronica Boix Mansilla is Lecturer of Education and Principal Investigator for Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Boix-Mansilla's research brings together theories and methods in cognitive psychology, epistemology, pedagogy and the sociology of knowledge to characterize quality teaching and learning and to develop frameworks and practical tools that educators can employ to foster it. Her research and publications focus on how students, teachers and experts develop expertise in disciplines such as history, biology and the arts, and how they integrate it in interdisciplinary areas of work (e.g., understanding globalization, climate change, or bioethics).

Additional Faculty

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education and Senior Co-Director of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. For the last 13 years in collaboration with psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon and other researchers at Project Zero, Gardner has been engaged in a study of Good Work; work that is at once excellent in quality and also responsive to the needs of broader society. The project is now working with young people in secondary schools and colleges in an effort to nurture good work. Gardner's most recent books are: Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons and Five Minds for the Future. With several colleagues, he recently published Responsibility at Work.

David Perkins, Professor of Education and Senior Co-Director of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His newest book is King Arthur's Round Table: How Collaborative Conversations Create Smart Organizations. He is also the author of The Eureka Effect, Smart Schools, Outsmarting IQ, Knowledge as Design and several other books and many articles. He has helped develop instructional programs and approaches for teaching understanding and thinking, including initiatives in Sweden, South Africa, Israel, and Latin America. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow.

Enrollment Instructions

Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Online registration materials for Future of Learning will be available mid-December.

Fees

The comprehensive program fee includes tuition, all instructional materials and a social event. Participants receive a certificate of completion and a letter confirming clock hours of instruction.

Payment or a purchase order must be received within thirty days of registration and prior to the program start. Participants are responsible for their own travel expenses.

Future of Learning

PROGRAM DETAILS