ProFuturo Observatory

Reflecting on the Education of the Future

At the ProFuturo Observatory we promote discussion and reflection on the current state of digital education in the world.

The Observatory researches and analyses approaches, methodologies, initiatives and trends, and consults with the best experts in order to make visible solutions that allow teachers and children in vulnerable environments to improve their chances of accessing quality education.

All of this is transformed into articles and posts, both written and audio-visual, which give an account of the latest developments that are being prepared in the world of education with the use of technology.

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Last Publications

Observatory Approaches

Measuring for Transformation: The Key to Improving Education in Latin America

Education in Latin America is at a challenging crossroads: as school systems recover from the pandemic’s impact, learning challenges continue to grow. According to a recent report by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), more than half of the region’s youth lack basic reading and math skills, with an even more alarming gap among the most disadvantaged. This report explores how learning assessments can guide more equitable policies, improve educational quality, and offer new opportunities for the most vulnerable students. In this article, we summarize its key findings.

Observatory Talks

Education and Technology: The Promise of AI under Scrutiny

Observatory Inspiring Experiences

Strengthening Educational Policies Through Teacher Training: ProFuturo’s Experience in Ecuador

Observatory Trends

Educational Innovation Begins in the Minds of Teachers

Observatory Innovative Solutions

Empowering Teacher Professionalization: A Networked Improvement Community to Redesign ProFuturo’s Open Model

Observatory Trends

Personalised Digital Learning: How to Implement it in Vulnerable Environments

Observatory 21st Century Skills

AI Literacy: A Key Competence for the Education of the Future

Conversations

A virtual meeting place where we discuss the kind of education we all want to build with experts from all over the world. Find out more here

Media and Information Literacy: Navigating with Critical Thinking

If you think Google is reading your mind when it starts showing you ads about that trip you’ve just begun dreaming about, you’re in need of media and information literacy. In this interview, expert Mariaje González Flor explains, among other things, what it involves and what skills we need to master to become media-literate citizens.

Evidence-Based Education: How to Bring It into the Classroom

Would you let your children take a medicine whose effects have not been tested by several scientific studies? Then why don’t we demand the same from teaching methods? What is evidence-based education? Are we using it enough in education? We ask all these questions to Lara Crespo, a teacher “who has never stopped being a researcher.” Don’t miss the video with the interview.

A time of possibilities for guaranteeing the right to education in Latin America

Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising all aspects of our lives and, of course, education is no exception. The publication entitled The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Education in Latin America was written with the aim of generating new knowledge to help the region to plan educational actions and policies in the current scenario of technological disruption. In this video, the expert Axel Rivas, coordinator of the research, explains its main conclusions.

Co-creation and collaboration: the keys to designing a successful teacher learning platform

What are the challenges faced by teachers in refugee settings? What should a teacher training platform in vulnerable environments look like? What is Each Teach and how does it work? Carlota Tovar, director of the Camilo José Cela University Foundation, tells us about it in an interview.

Teacher mentoring: learning to teach with support

Imagine a medical student who is sent to be the head of a hospital ICU right after graduation? Unthinkable, right? This is the case in the teaching profession: one day you are taking notes for your bachelor’s or master’s degree, and the next day you are solely responsible for a classroom with dozens of students in your charge. The difficulties are compounded when it comes to vulnerable environments. Mentoring or tutoring programmes offer new graduates initial support so that they can complement their learning with the help of more experienced teachers. In this interview, they tell us how it works.

“Children need to learn about artificial intelligence and algorithms”

What is the relationship between artificial intelligence and data analytics? What should algorithms look like? Why is it so important for people to understand how artificial intelligence works? Can this technology help to universalise quality education? If you want to know how, read on.

Authors and Collaborators

The ProFuturo Observatory is fortunate to have a large group of experts in multiple areas of education and technology that help us to carry out our goal of analysing, every week, what is happening in the world of educational innovation. They are our collaborators and we introduce them to you in this section. Meet them here

Gema de Pablo

Laura Cuesta Cano

Mariaje González Flor

Arianne Martín

Adebe Estones

Lara Crespo

Charo Fernández

Carmen Salcedo

Axel Rivas

Till Jaspert

Magdalena Brier

Carlota Tovar

Miguel Costa