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April 29, 2025 The Third Horizon of Learning: Shifting Beyond the Industrial Model Over the past seven months, Incubate Learning and Getting Smart, with the sponsorship of LearnerStudio, have been curating, editing, and writing a blog series that showcases the voices of 30+ organizations building the future of learning today. The series includes the voices of: Students envisioning the education system they want and need Schools redesigning the core of what they do for the five-seven hours...

March 13, 2025 3 Learning Models Reshaping Teaching: A Guide for Educators & Schools 1/2 (see below for page 2) The world is changing, and education is evolving with it. The traditional one teacher, one classroom model was built for a time when knowledge was scarce, work was predictable, and classrooms operated in isolation. But today’s workplaces value adaptability, collaboration, and problem-solving across disciplines, and knowledge is easily accessible and rapidly expanding. At the same...

October 24, 2024 How Generative AI Can Enable & Accelerate H3 School Transformation This piece first appeared in the Horizon 3 Blog Series in Getting Smart, sponsored by LearnerStudio. Incubate Learning is a founding member of Collective Shift, the author of this piece. Learn more here. By: Collective Shift In the first article in this series, Tom Vander Ark outlined three opportunities for shifting education from a traditional, efficiency-based industrial model to a future-ready,...

October 2024 How to Design Schools to Grow Thriving Adults: A Provocation This piece first appeared in the Horizon 3 Blog Series in Getting Smart, sponsored by LearnerStudio. You’re a mom. A dad. A grandparent or godparent or stepparent or close family friend. What do you want for the children you care about? Are you truly excited that they get all ‘A’s’ and high scores on their SATs or ACTs? Is that the goal in life? Or do you want them to be able to make their way in the world, deal with...

August 2024 Join the Collective Shift: Human-Centered AI for Learner-Centered Education By: The Partners of Collective Shift You’re likely sick of hearing about AI. Perhaps it makes you feel inadequate or behind the times. Perhaps it’s scary or intimidating. Perhaps it’s already your able assistant and you don’t want any more pontificating about it. We understand. Education has a bad habit of chasing after the next new fad, of which AI is the latest. We are a new alliance of eight education...

July 2024 An AI Coach to Help You Become More Human Innately Human This is a fact: we are born curious. Have you ever seen a baby that doesn’t touch everything she can reach, explore your face, put everything in his mouth, including fingers and toes, yours and his? Have you ever met a three-year-old that doesn’t ask, “Why? Why? Why?” until you’re ready to hide under the blankets? Humans are genetically programmed to explore. To use all our senses to make sense of the world. To lead with our...

Designing Learning to Grow Competence 12 MIN READ August, 2023 Last month I closed out a three-year tenure as Director of Capstone for the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Education Entrepreneurship M.S.Ed. program. I’ve taught in EdEnt, as we fondly call it, for five years and will continue to teach next year, but I’m saying goodbye, with great gratitude, to the administrative work of being the director. In June I wrote about workingpacking around the world to explore...

Redesigning Startup Accelerators for Historically Underinvested Communities 7 MIN READ Incubating learning in a changing world Take 1 Startup founder. What’s the image that comes to mind? Here’s ChatGPT4’s answer. It’s not totally off-base. Although a 2022 Federal Reserve survey found that a quarter of startups were owned by people of color, the overwhelming majority of venture capital funding goes to male founders, and especially white male founders. They’re the guy ChatGPT4 generated. Take...

What is a stack? In the tech world a solution stack is a set of component layers that run on top of each other to produce a desired solution. Each layer does a different type of work, and they can be built separately. However, to be successful as a stack, they must work together to offer a seamless experience for the user. There are many sublayers and options inside each component layer which you can choose bundled or unbundled depending on your needs. I know it’s much more complicated than...