AI, Agency and Futures-Ready Learning
AI is already reshaping how young people learn, create, search, write, decide and imagine their futures.
But many education conversations still get stuck in the wrong place: tools, cheating, detection, policy panic or generic “future skills”.
This paid webinar reframes AI literacy as a question of agency, judgement and futures literacy.
We will look at what young people need beyond basic tool use, how schools and youth-facing organisations can avoid reactive AI policy, and what it means to design learning that strengthens human judgement rather than outsourcing it.
This is not a technical AI implementation session. It is for people making decisions about curriculum, learning, youth development, staff development, strategy, leadership, programme design or education partnerships.
You will leave with:
- a sharper frame for AI literacy
- a simple distinction between tool use and human judgement
- practical questions for curriculum, staff development and strategy
- examples of where AI policy can become too narrow
- a clearer sense of what futures-ready learning should mean in an AI-shaped world
This session is for:
- educators, school leaders and curriculum leads
- youth organisations, NGOs and charities
- universities, foundations and public-sector teams
- social enterprises and education partners
- EdTech teams and corporates working with education
- founders, programme leads, advisers and board members
You do not need technical AI expertise. You do not need to be leading a whole institution. You only need one live question about AI, learning, young people, curriculum, judgement or futures-ready education.
I’m Rachael Smith, founder of The Education Futurist. My work brings together strategic foresight, futures literacy, AI literacy, curriculum design and institutional change. I have worked at group level in international education as Group Head of Future Ready Learning for Charterhouse Asia, and I am part of the Metafuture network connected to the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies. I am also writing on futures thinking in education and will be teaching on the MASc Education Futures at the London Interdisciplinary School.
The future is not something to fear. It is something to build, together.