John Riley

Background

About John Riley

Education Futurist To be an education futurist means weaving the practices of futures thinking and design into our learning experiences with leaders and students. In a rapidly changing world, futures thinking helps us imagine a wider range of the possible, plausible, probable futures in which we will be learning and living. Design helps us build toward more preferred futures by giving form to ideas, rapidly experimenting, and learning through iterative processes and feedback. Through these lenses, we see the world not just as it is, but how it could be if we took a more empathetic and human-centered approach to uncover and solve complex challenges in the hopes of creating a more equitable, humane, and environmentally sustainable. I believe educators have the capacity to enable these capabilities at scale by co-designing experiences with students that provide opportunities for intentional practice, and a protective space to develop them.