A Personalized Approach to Learning
This article was originally published on FE News. In today’s digital world, businesses can identify the precise needs of their customers and curate products accordingly. Take the example of e-commerce websites: based on the history of past purchases and other insights, the website can recommend products that individual customers are likely to buy. Similarly, a streaming […]
Managing Innovation Environments and Ecosystems Capacity-Building Initiatives in Latin America
In 2016, the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) adopted the concept of “Areas of Innovation” as places that bring together infrastructural, technological, institutional and cultural facilities that attract entrepreneurially-minded people who have new ideas and capital and are focused on innovation and enhancing the development of the knowledge society. This […]
The Future of Learning is in Your Community
We tend to believe that teachers are responsible for children’s learning with strong support from parents. Teachers and parents are essential, but since Bronfenbrenner introduced the Ecological Systems Theory to explain how the inherent qualities of children and their environments interact to influence how they grow and develop, we have known that children’s development and learning is […]
Learning Ecosystems – Designing Vibrant and Purposeful Learning Communities
In the past months, the notion of “learning anytime, anywhere” turned into an everyday reality for millions of learners who found themselves locked out of schools and universities due to the coronavirus pandemic. This global crisis also made the world realize that effective learning doesn’t only happen in schools. In fact, it relies on an […]
Reclaiming the Learning City: Mobilizing Every-day and Expansive Learning for Urban Transformation
Cities are at the forefront of humanity’s responses to widespread and disruptive change. Within fifty years they will be home to over 50% of the world’s population. How cities respond to a warming climate, whether they enable transition to low carbon communities or continue to extract and exploit natural resources, how they relate to […]
Everyone a Changemaker Ecosystems: a new framework for the growing up years
Over 300 years, human society has been moving toward a new reality: where everything is changing with greater speed and is becoming more deeply interconnected. With this, comes a risk of a new divide between those who cannot adapt to change and those who do have this ability. This evolution poses the question: how can […]
How John Dewey got his first job—and why it matters for the future of learning ecosystems
A school community is a precious and fragile ecosystem. Teachers and leaders must constantly perform a balancing act: build a healthy school-wide climate and culture, while also attempting to cater to each individual students’ academic strengths and needs. These twin values—of community and individual—have been around since the dawn of the Progressive Education Movement itself. […]
Cities as Learning Opportunities
In a world where sustainable growth is the ultimate lever or hack to being in the big lists, cities have begun to recognize the importance of education & learning as one of their top priorities. The value of Human Capital over Financial Capital has never been more evident for cities that want to stand the […]
Learning Ecosystem of Medellin
Medellín is a Colombian municipality, capital of the state of Antioquia. It is the second-most populous city in the country. The municipality is territorially organized in 6 geographical areas, which are made up of 16 Communes (275 official urban neighborhoods) and 5 Townships. With a population of 2,550,000 inhabitants, Medellín has a territorial extension of […]
A Letter to School Leaders
Dear School Leaders, I hope this letter finds you well in this challenging time we are all living. First of all, we want to recognize you and the entire school community for the amazing efforts displayed to keep the learning going through this pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has turned into a global crisis with holistic […]