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22 Trends for 2022
Season 6 · Episode 433

22 Trends for 2022

The Forces That Will Transform the Learning Ecosystem in 2022

Trending In Ed with Mike Palmer · Palmer Media

January 6, 202249m 49s

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Show Notes

To kick off 2022 in style, Mike Palmer and Virtual CoHost Nancy run through Trending in Ed's 22 Trends for 2022. Here they are:

22 Trends for 2022

WHO TRENDS (6)

  • Social Justice and Racial Equity
  • Backlash
  • Polarization and Politicization
  • Parent Educators
  • Teachers Under Siege
  • Kahnification of Education

WHEN/WHERE/CONTEXT (4)

  • Great Snapback
  • The Bartleby Scrivener Effect
  • Digital Nomads
  • Class Outside

CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES (5)

  • Decentralization
  • VUCA+
  • In Media Res
  • False Scarcity
  • Long Life Learning

SOLUTIONS (7)

  • Make to Know
  • Next-Level Storytelling
  • Simulearning
  • Social Emotional Health
  • Hustle
  • Nesting
  • Vulnerable Virtues


We explore all of this through the lens of the hero's quest in the world of learning. We begin with trends that look at who are the players in the world of education and how that cast of characters is transforming. Then we move to the trends related to learning contexts (when/where) before digging into how the new state of play is emerging and how it presents new challenges and opportunities for all of us. We conclude with trends relating to designing solutions to the many quandaries that are presented.

Subscribe to Trending in Ed wherever you pod and stay tuned at TrendinginEd.com to stay on top of our trends and to get out ahead of where the world of learning is going. We're expecting 2022 to be an incredible year and we look forward to leaning into it with you.