The Learning Future Podcast with Louka Parry

This is the third part of a 4 part series with the Agile Leaders of Learning Innovation Network contributors. This episode features Karima Kadaoui, co-founder and Executive President of Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development in Morrocco. It is hosted by Robyn Whittaker and Louka Parry.This episode is a special partnership and sponsored by Qatar Foundation’s WISE ALL IN program.https://www.wise-qatar.org/all-in/

This is the second of a 4 part series with the Agile Leaders of Learning Innovation Network contributors. This episode features Gregg Behr, executive director at The Grable Foundation and co-chair of the Remake Learning council. It is hosted by Robyn Whittaker and Dominic Regester.This episode is a special partnership and sponsored by Qatar Foundation’s WISE IN program.https://www.wise-qatar.org/all-in/

This is episode 1 of a special 4 part series with the Agile Leaders of Learning network contributors: Valerie Hannon & Tony Mackay. This episode is a special partnership and is sponsored by Qatar Foundation’s WISE program.https://www.wise-qatar.org/all-in/thelearningfuture.com

Louka Parry shares thoughts on the 19 conversations recorded for Season 3 of TLF’s podcast during 2021, and introduces what’s in store for Season 4 including some exciting collaborations! thelearningfuture.com

How fast do our skills lose their value in our rapidly evolving economies? Whose responsibility is it to ensure upskilling is accurately targeted and where should it take place?Dr Ben Hamer is one of Australia's leading work futurists. He is the Future of Work Lead at PwC Australia and spent time seconded to the World Economic Forum heading up critical projects on the future of work, skills, and education. He is also a Board Member for the Australian HR Institute, recently appointed as the youngest Non-Executive Director in the organisation’s history. Ben has a Doctorate of Public Administration, which included time spent as a Visiting Scholar at Yale University, and is an Adjunct Fellow with the Centre for the New Workforce at Swinburne University. Ben regularly features on across Australian media providing expert commentary on the Future of Work.

How pervasive are mental health problems in our schools and how can we define and measure it? What are some practical mindfulness and wellbeing techniques we can use in the classroom, and further in the community?Addie Wootten is a Clinical psychologist and CEO of Smiling Mind. She has worked most of her career in clinical practice and research across a range of major hospitals in Melbourne, primarily focussing on supporting people with cancer. Throughout her clinical career she has seen first hand the benefits that mindfulness can provide and used mindfulness in her work for many years. She's an experienced researcher and fundraiser and is passionate about her role in leading Smiling Mind to have the biggest and most beneficial impact they can have. See the work of her and her team:https://www.smilingmind.com.au/-----Visit us at thelearningfuture.com or email us at hello@thelearningfuture.com.

Can we strategically bounce forward instead of bouncing back? Could a detailed and perceptive experience of remote learning help mark-out intentional particular goals for learning?Joanna Moe is Assistant Director of Professional Learning K-12 at Qatar Foundation, Education Development Institute (EDI).Originally from Aotearoa, New Zealand, Joanna currently leads a team of pre-K-grade 12 learning designers at the Education Development Institute (EDI) in Qatar. She has worked in a variety of educational contexts in Hong Kong and New Zealand, leading in-school projects and professional learning across a range of learning and teaching areas. Joanna's areas of interest in education and research include the complexities around transcultural professional learning, advocating for multilingual education and researching the application of effective approaches to learning and teaching using continuous improvement models. MA in Education and joins me from the Middle East today.

Would some students benefit better from teachers that guide and assist? What experience are there in having positive success with headstrong “at-risk” students?Sizolwenkosi Fuyana (Sizol) is a businesswoman, podcaster, youth advocate and law student.After overcoming her own adversities and mental health issues, small business owner Sizol now devotes her life to supporting disadvantaged young people who are at risk of entering the justice system.Sizol is the founder and Director of Fuyana Support. It’s a youth-oriented consultancy that provides social and emotional wellbeing to young people, equipping them with skills to help them be more effective members of communities.Sizol has partnered with the City of Palmerston to develop a ‘Youth Info Map’, with the project leading to freelance work with Joblink. She also works with youth at Don Dale Youth Detention Centre. Sizol’s podcast, The Reality Change, is about personal growth and facing adversity. She is also Chair of the 2021 Northern Territory Youth Round Table, which aims to make the government aware of key issues that are important to young people.A law and psychology student who has volunteered for many working groups, Sizol was recently named the 2022 NT Young Australian of the Year.

To what extent do we each view the world through rose-coloured glasses? How much of our ecosystems have a 'darker' side that we might benefit from accepting and powerfully protest in place? In this episode; Tyson Yunkaporta offers a valuable indigenous inspired perspective on education, including the more concerning problems faced by communities around the world. His unique perspective gives insight into areas and problems that are often hidden in plain sight, and his awareness of the causes and consequences of these guide his strategy in teaching, academia, and life.Tyson is an Indigenous thinker, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University, and author of Sand Talk.Tyson is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne.

How much of our education is still entrenched in a factory-style model? How do we step back and take what we've learned 150 years of understanding about humanity in challenging our assumptions and values? Ulcca Joshi Hansen is a mother, educator, researcher and advocate whose two-and-a-half decade career has spanned classrooms, non-profit leadership, philanthropy and consulting. She is driven by a vision of education that attends to and supports the development of young people’s humanity and creates learning experiences that help them realise their unique potential - the place where who they are and what the world needs intersect. An internationally-recognised expert on educational transformation at the level of instruction, assessment, organisational design and policy systems, she brings a diverse set of experiences working with educators, funders, policymakers, researchers, legislators, business leaders and community advocates in the US and internationally. Her work is aimed at helping transform the foundational values of our educational, cultural and social systems, and building the capacity of educators, families, communities and advocates to work with young people toward new ways of being in the world. A two-time TED speaker, Ulcca holds a BA in Philosophy and German from Drew University and a certificate in early childhood and elementary education with a focus on special education. She earned her PhD from Oxford University and a JD from Harvard Law School. She has been recognised for her leadership as a Harry S. Truman Scholar; a British Marshall Scholar and a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow.