#edchatNZ & Grant Lichtman
​Grant Lichtman and #edchatNZ 's Danielle Myburgh talk about how schools have started their future focussed journey and been reimagined.

Grant Lichtman works with school teams to develop a capacity for change in a rapidly changing world. For almost 15 years, Grant was a trustee, chief of finance and operations, and teacher at Francis Parker School in San Diego, one of the largest independent schools in the United States. Over a decade and a half of remarkable transformation at the school, Grant was either directly responsible for, or intimately involved in, strategic planning, program design, campus planning and redevelopment, global education, advancement, marketing, educational technology, admissions and financial aid, benchmarking and trend analyses, and risk management.

Grant is the author of two books: #EdJourney : A Roadmap for the Future of Education based on his first-hand research with dozens of schools and hundreds of K-12 educators; and The Falconer: What We Wish We Had Learned in School based on his seminar in strategic and creational thinking.

#edchatNZ and Rachel Bolstad
Rachel Bolstad and #edchatNZ 's Danielle Myburgh talk about educational futures and how this lead to Curriculum for the Future - a game to help rethink curriculum!

Rachel is a Senior Researcher at NZCER. Her research interests include: - future-oriented education - young people's views and experiences of schooling - environmental education/education for sustainability - school-based curriculum development and innovation - science education - education for enterprise - the role and potential of digital technologies in education - and most recently, digital and old-school game development approaches.

Rachel constantly strives to develop her own, and other people's thinking about education, why it matters, and how our learning and teaching systems may need to change to match the opportunities and demands of a changing world.​

#edchatNZ and David Weinberger

  • Ever wonder why there is just so much content to get through with your students?
  • Do you have students that know more than you because the learnt it on the internet?
David Weinberger is a Senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is also the author of Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room. This is about how the Net is transforming knowledge and expertise. Too Big to Know is the winner of two international Best Book of the Year awards. Join us for a live discussion of David's work and what this might mean.