What is LearnTech
Nowadays, learning and technology, or LearnTech, often go hand-in-hand. Technology products are ubiquitous and used across the learning spectrum; from influencing pedagogy, enhancing student/teacher interactions, to communication…
What is the SandBox Lab™?
This article builds on a previous post that defines our view of a successful ecosystem in an education context … “a complex network of stakeholders – schools, start-ups, investors, industry, advisors, and government – that extends across industry verticals, connecting via digital and physical platforms and interacting in ways that have a positive impact on learning, teaching, and leading”…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Education – Deep Dive #1
This is the first in a series of articles that will deep dive into the exponential technologies that will have the biggest impact on not only learning and teaching but also leading schools in the 21st century…
Connecting the Ecosystem, Transforming Education
‘Connecting the Ecosystem, Transforming Education’ is a key purpose for us at LearnTech Lab and this post will unpack and elucidate what is meant by the word ECOSYSTEM. Currently, the word is being used widely across a large number of sectors and given that the simple definition is ‘a complex network or interconnected system’ it is easy to understand why…
Exponential Technologies and LearnTech
Following on from my first piece on LearnTech, this post explores the technologies that are likely to have the greatest impact on learning, teaching and leading…
Immersive Technology and Education – Deep Dive #2
This is the second in a series of articles that will deep dive into the exponential technologies that will have the biggest impact on not only learning and teaching but also leading schools in the 21st century…
LearnTech Lab Insights: Blockchain and Learning – The Learning Wallet
One of the key exponential technologies that is central in reimagining education is Blockchain. Blockchain is a complex topic that is, for the majority of people, inextricably linked to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, but we are beginning to understand the wider possibilities that sit within adopting the use of Blockchain in an education and learning…
School-Centred Design©
In this article, we flesh out School-Centred Design©…
The ‘Smart’ School
According to the Oxford dictionary, smart means intelligent, acumen. In this sense, the article’s title ‘The Smart School’ may be misleading and cause readers to think this article is about educational achievement rather than about schools where advanced equipment and technology are used to take educational processes forward, including more efficient and effective operations…
Unlearning Unhelful Mindsets
In a recent conversation with Futurist Frank Diana, he shared his view that the most important unlearning we currently need to do is around mindsets…