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Taking a Peek Into the Future of Education

Twenty-eight Dalton educators recently ventured to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, former epicenter of American shipbuilding and current home to emerging entrepreneurs, to explore the future of education. The group arrived at the coincidentally named “New Lab,” a massive, state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary space designed to support robotics, artificial intelligence, and other “connected” technologies, and began to engage in a cleverly-crafted process to generate plausible and possible forward-looking educational ideas.
The project, initiated by the Administrative Council and Visual Arts Teacher Emeritus Rob Meredith, represents an iteration of The Original Minds program, an effort that brings prominent professionals to Dalton to inspire new and creative ways of thinking. Past Original Minds facilitators include sculptor Sarah Sze, poet Natasha Trethewey, and author/illustrator David Macaulay.

Led by Extrapolation Factory futurists Chris Woebken and Elliott Montgomery, the day-long workshop inspired attendees to categorize and prioritize emerging trends in social, technological, economic, ecological, and political domains that have the potential to disrupt education. Chris and Elliott provided a research-based, design-inspired framework to divide participants into small groups, and with the assistance of Extrapolation Factory interns, to produce dioramas that envisioned and represented a future Dalton education.

Check out photos from the day, including the New Lab maker architecture and facilities, art objects, and the Dalton groups’ finished dioramic projects.

About the Extrapolation Factory - The Extrapolation Factory is an imagination-based studio for design-led futures studies. Based at the New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the studio develops experimental methods for collaborative prototyping, experiencing and impacting future scenarios through design thinking.
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