The past 20 years or so have seen increasing concern that our schooling system, set up for a different age, is not able to prepare today’s learners for the fast-changing world they will live and work in. Strong arguments for radical change—not gradual improvement—have been made, from a number of quarters. There is some consensus about the broad set of ideas that should guide this change, and, based on this, a large literature on the needs of 21st century learners. Much has been said about future-oriented learning and teaching, and future focus is one of the New Zealand Curriculum’s eight key principles. However, while there has been some exploration of what