Brock { Abroad }

I can’t believe I’m still awake right now. Knowing I have the second day of a workshop I’ve developed through Knowmads in collaboration with the Hub Amsterdam, I am still buzzing. It’s amazing the amount of things I am able to do with an education as amazing as Knowmads. Going out into the city doing collaborations like The Knowmadic Learning Lab make me realize that there a lot of other “pop-up, start-up learning spaces” happening all across the world.

When I mention this phrase, my mind immediately goes to Frauke Godet of the Hub Berlin. An absolutely gracious presence to have attend our workshop this past Wednesday, she has a rather interesting education topic that suggests the world’s next best “dream school” may not even need a roof. Here are some details on the concept, Future at School:

Facing the global transformation process from moving from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge age. Schools need to educate different skills and competencies:

INDUSTRIAL AGE…………………………….KNOWLEDGE AGE
Interpreted data……………………………. Interpreted information
Hierarchical………………………………….. Personally-constructed meanings
Soloed jobs and roles…………………….. Network org. and Knowmads
Chaos and ambiguity are avoided…….. Chaos and ambiguity are embraced

Inspired by John Moravec, a Knowmads ambassador and initiator of Education Futures:

Accelerating complexity caused by human activity is challenging society and individuals. We need to develop people who are capable to create alternatives in the unknown, to make sense of ambiguity, and to take leadership in chaotic environments.

Vision
To develop young people world-wide who take responsibility to design and create their future!

Mission:
To create a space for cross-generational learning and collaboration to support ideas for a radically better world.

Learning goals:
- Learning: learn to learn
- Dialogue: dialogue and democratic skills
- Personal leadership skills
- Creation: design thinking and vision-building skills

Principles:
- To create meaning for yourself and others
- Learning to enjoy learning
- You are responsible for your learning, you donʼt receive it
- Let the students decide what they see as a burning topic
- Moving from problem-solving to creative participation

Participants/space members:
- School: teachers, students, parents, grandparents
- Local school environment: actors, local businesses, NGOs, charities, etc.
- Other members (external people working in the space): hosts, trainers,
sustainability educators, social innovators, entrepreneurs, university students, free desk for (unemployed, homeless, etc.)

Program:
- Based on the Hub programming concept: learning lunches, workshops, training’s, peer-to-peer sessions, OpenSpaces, community-building
- Art of Hosting training’s
- KaosPilot inspired modules
- The programme will be implemented based on a local trainer’s network
- The school and the students bring in topics into this learning framework

Frauke also wrote some great posts on her experiences with our workshop on the Hub Summer School Community. Thanks again, Frauke!

Also, a big thank you to all our other participants at the lab including Lex Hupe, currently involved with a related “dream school” project called 7 Days of Inspiration. As well as Valentine Giraud, head of harvesting and Hub Summer School initiator, Hortense Koster of trndmrkr, Ralph at Mix Academy, Betul Seckin, and Chantal Klaver, for her amazing photographs of the first event!

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