The Classroom of Tomorrow
Design a learning space that improves collaboration, creativity, and student engagement.
Challenge workflow — coming in the next stage
← Global Innovation Lab
🏫 Future Schools Lab
Imagine. Design. Innovate. Transform Learning.
Investigate how students learn best, spot challenges in today's schools, and design a school of the future that makes learning more engaging, inclusive, accessible, sustainable and meaningful.
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// driving question
How can we redesign schools to prepare learners for the challenges and opportunities of the future?
// your mission
You are a future-focused education innovator.
Think like an architect, educator, engineer, technology designer, researcher and community problem-solver.
Use evidence, creativity, systems thinking and design thinking to build a vision for the schools of tomorrow.
Your goal isn't just to imagine a futuristic school — it's to explain why your ideas matter, back them with evidence, and design solutions that could really improve learning.
// learning targets
- I can investigate strengths and challenges in today's schools.
- I can research trends that may influence the future of education.
- I can explain how school design affects learning, collaboration, creativity, and well-being.
- I can evaluate how technology, artificial intelligence, and robotics could transform learning.
- I can use evidence to support decisions about future schools.
- I can design an innovative solution to an educational challenge.
- I can create a prototype, model, blueprint, presentation, or other original product.
- I can revise my ideas using feedback, evidence, and reflection.
// explore the big ideas
Ten Forces Shaping Tomorrow's Schools
● choose your innovation challenge
Your Ideas. Your Design.
Pick the challenge that sparks your curiosity. You'll design an original solution — there is no single right answer.
AI Learning Partner
Propose a responsible way AI could personalize learning while protecting student privacy and supporting teachers.
Challenge workflow — coming in the next stage
The Sustainable School
Design a school that reduces waste, conserves water and energy, and supports environmental responsibility.
Challenge workflow — coming in the next stage
School for Everyone
Create a learning environment that improves accessibility, belonging, and opportunities for every learner.
Challenge workflow — coming in the next stage
Beyond the Bell
Rethink when, where, and how students learn.
Challenge workflow — coming in the next stage
The Future School Blueprint
Develop a comprehensive model of a school designed for the year 2040 or beyond.
Challenge workflow — coming in the next stage
// mission pathway
Eight Stages from Curiosity to Proposal
Every stage is open to explore here. Innovators save their work, track progress and earn milestones after their teacher's classroom joins the lab and they sign in with a class code.
// mission
Design the School of the Future
Research a real challenge in education, analyze evidence, develop an innovative solution, test and improve the design, and present a compelling vision for the school of the future.
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// milestones
- ○ Future Thinker
- ○ Research Master
- ○ Evidence Expert
- ○ Problem Solver
- ○ Design Thinker
- ○ Prototype Engineer
- ○ Global Presenter
- ○ Innovation Fellow
Milestones appear only when a stage's requirements are met.