The future of education is a choice.
Dr. Micah Shippee helps educators and leaders decide what they want learning to become, then adopt the technology that gets them there, without losing the human heart of learning. Author of 2059: The Future of Education and WanderlustEDU, keynote speaker, and Director of Education Solutions at a global technology company.
Awards and recognition
EdScoop 50 Industry Leader, 2023 · EdTech Digest State of EdTech: Leading Voice, 2023 · EdTech Digest Trendsetter: Educator Setting a Trend, 2020 · EdTech Awards Leadership Finalist, 2019 · EdTech Digest Top 100 Influencers in EdTech, 2019
Horizon scan
Four futures. One journey.
2059 imagines education at four waypoints. Each one has its own essay. Start anywhere on the route.
2049
The community learning hub. Dismantling the silos of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Keynotes and workshops
A dynamic presenter who leverages emergent technology in a practical and effective way.
Lisa Stueve, Ed.D., Conference Chair, i2STEMe Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference, Georgia Southern University
2059: The Future of Education
Four plausible futures, and how to plan for them today with intention instead of reaction.
Access to Agency
What problem solvers, go-getters, and DIYers have in common, and how to grow it in every learner.
WanderlustEDU
Motivation, environment, skills, and knowledge: the four attributes of a teacher’s journey.
OnwardEDU
Innovation and the future of work: what the workforce will demand, and how to iterate our practice.
The framework behind both books
The Fusion Model
Two research traditions, fused: the five stages of organizational innovation adoption, viewed at every stage through the lens of an Activity Theory system. When one part changes, the others must adjust so the goal stays within reach.
Books
Where the journey started. Where it’s headed.
Newest · 2025 · The Farm
2059: The Future of Education
A visionary yet pragmatic roadmap for educators, administrators, and policymakers: four possible futures of education, from the hyper-connected classroom of 2029 to the post-scarcity scholar of 2059, and the Fusion Model for managing the change in between.
2019 · Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.
WanderlustEDU
An educator’s guide to innovation, change, and adventure. Frame your career as a journey, and nurture the motivation, environment, skills, and knowledge it takes.
Micah is a true leader in innovation and emergent technology, but he also has both feet firmly planted in education.
Thomas C. Murray, Director of Innovation, Future Ready Schools
Collaborations and contributions
- Reality Bytes: Innovative Learning Using Augmented and Virtual Reality, co-authored with Christine Lion-Bailey and Jesse Lubinsky
- “The XR ABC Framework,” a chapter in Immersive Education: Designing for Learning (Springer, 2022)
- Contributions to The Augmented Workforce (2021) and the introduction to A New Way to Wealth (2021)
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What educators say
Micah’s depth of knowledge in the adoption of emergent technologies is unmatched, yet his unassuming and light-hearted manner of delivering professional learning is both inviting and non-intimidating.
Simone Gessler, Assistant Superintendent of Learning, Yellowknife Catholic Schools
Micah is one of the most down to earth, clever, insightful, and passionate educators I have had the fortune to work with.
Katie Ritter, Director of Curriculum and Technology Integration, Forward Edge
There was not one single moment that the audience felt disengaged. All eyes and attention were on his funny, yet thoughtful stories.
Natalia LeMoyne, Coordinator of Educational Technology, Guilderland Central School District
Shippee provides the pedagogical reasoning and practical methods to help us take risks, iterate our practice, make meaningful use of technology…
Kathy Schrock, Educational Technologist
WanderlustEDU weaves together stories, metaphors, and research to inspire educators of all levels to innovate for the betterment of the students they serve.
Katherine Goyette, Educational Technology and Integrated Studies Consultant
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