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What Can We Learn from a Master Chef About Collaboration
By the Coordinator of the NetEduProject Jordi Díaz-Gibson in collaboration with Peter Miller & Alan J. Daly. Ferran Adria is widely recognized as one of the best chefs in the world. As education scholars, the authors of this commentary have developed an ongoing collaborative research relationship that has drawn considerably from Adria’s approach. They suggest that this emergent Adria-inspired way of collaboration contributes to understanding international collaboration and can significantly inform other education researchers who similarly seek substantive impact in their fluid and complex settings. Ferran Adria’s restaurant, El Bulli attracted patrons from across the globe to Roses (Girona, Spain) where they sampled not only Adria’s cuisine, but also his world famous innovative methods for creating and delivering a unique dining experience. El Bulli closed in 2011 at the height of its success and, while Adria’s reputation as a world master has continued to grow, his influence has accelerated into a broader sphere of creativity. Adria founded and heads the El Bulli Foundation, an international and interdisciplinary lab that rethinks cuisine with an innovative and design-based approach, and where new ideas and projects are lifted into reality. One of the most compelling indicators of Adria’s influence is the map identifying the locations […]
From Educational Organizations to Educational Ecosystems
Jordi Díaz-Gibson and Mireia Civís, coordinators of the NetEduProject Fully immersed in the 21st century, we can see that, at the educational level, efforts are being made to shift from organizational models based on hierarchical authority and control to more horizontal and network-connected organizational forms (Daly, 2010). This suggests a series of transitions in the educational world from independence to interdependence; from centralized leadership to distribution of leadership; from responsibilities to co-responsibility; from specialists to multidisciplinary generalists, and from dogma to dialogue. Thus, we understand that educational change and innovation in schools or other socio-educational organizations have to acknowledge these organizations to be located in the context of a neighbourhood or a community and that, at the same time, this wider social system also has a relevant role in education. Educational organizations have become more and more aware of the need to connect with their neighbourhood or community in order to improve their educational action. Recently there has been an increase in collaborative strategies among educational agents in the same area, thus setting up collaborative educational projects with attention focusing on children, youth and families themselves. These initiatives are based on the fact that the systematization of these relationships, formal […]
Human relationships are and will be the engine of the educational transformation in the 21st century
University of California San Diego Professor of Education Alan Daly is one of the leaders of the NetEduProject. In this interview he answers questions relating to the role of the social networks and learning ecosystems in the world of education. He shares the importance of cultivating and weaving social relationships in schools and communities to build social networks and learning ecosystems. And of course, today we share a well known image in the NetEduProject: human towers in Catalonia, Spain, a gràfic example of what human relationships can build. At the same time, talking about human relationships in this context of global pandemic and social distance, really touches our heart. It can be missunderstood or contradictory, but in our times social relationships are more important and powerful than ever. Thus, focusing in human relationships and learning ecosystems enable us to embrace our own sense of humanity and humility, connecting in deep and meaningful ways that are going to make fundamental change not just in education but in our broader society. Can you tell us what is a social network in education, and give us an example? When people hear ‘social networks’ they imagine Facebook or Twitter or something like this and […]
What if we understand Schools as a Learning Ecosystems in times of COVID-19 pandemic
Written by Jordi Díaz-Gibson and Alan Daly, NetEduProject As we write this many of us across the world are sheltered in place, not being able to safely leave our homes. This pandemic has its roots in how connected we are as a planet. Ironically, we only seem to attend to our human connectivity when it comes to historically negative events such as a pandemic. However, what if we really focused on the fact that these connections also hold the potential for equally positive impacts for our world. Sadly, it seems we rarely activate these systems for this purpose. In countries across the globe there are long standing educational inequities despite decades of attention, study, and work to alleviate systemic disparities. This statement is not to undermine the strides made, but as an educational community we still have a great distance to travel in becoming more equity minded and growing our educational systems in new and different directions. Perhaps one of contributing factors in not making greater progress on these issues is that many educational systems, and in fact individual educators, operate as independent units and as such may continue to create and replicate separate and unequal outcomes for students and communities. Typically, educational institutions and public agencies […]
How learning ecosystems evolve and how can leaders weave the whole change process
Weaving educational ecosystems in our districts and cities has become one of the greatest worldwide challenges for our systems to enhance learning and equity for the new era. The UNESCO (2020) publication “Education in a Post-COVID World: Nine Ideas for Public Action” indicates that those communities that have responded in an innovative, effective and resilient way to the crisis of COVID-19 are those who had shown greater collaboration between teachers, and between school and community actors. These ideas are also shown by other recent studies on school networks by Daly (2020) Azorín (2020) and Ion & Brown (2020). The reality of this pandemic has reminded us as a species that we are deeply connected to one another (Lancet 2020). Learning ecosystems are social infrastructure formed by diverse actors that share a purpose, and engage in collaboration to co-design and co-implement innovative responses to existing social and educational challenges. Learning ecosystems provide a new understanding of education from an ecosystemic perspective of actors and their relationships; they challenge traditional organizational boundaries while providing place-based focus on local schools, neighborhoods, cities, or transnational networks; they are based on systemic and cross-sectorial collaboration; and pursue systemic impact (Díaz-Gibson et al., 2020). Thus, one of the […]
A Question of Trust: The case of the Arcadia Unified School District
By Alan J. Daly, Katie Martin, Nicolette Van Halem, David Vannasdall, Devin Vodicka Arcadia Unified School District Superintendent, David Vannasdall, was visiting classrooms and noticed that every student in a kindergarten classroom had produced the exact same piece of artwork. It struck him in that moment how the learning experiences in many cases were at odds with the aspirations that they shared as a community. They had gone through a multi-stage process to identify their core values which embodied a sense of creativity and innovation: Imagine, Inquire, Inspire and yet this example underscored the need to do more. Arcadia Unified is widely recognized as one of the most successful K-12 systems as their students have 100% graduation and are successful by many metrics. Even so, their leaders also know that as the world continues to evolve the system and expectations in which education takes place must equally evolve and continue developing learners that thrive in an unpredictable world. During that walkthrough it became apparent how despite their vision, the systems set in place were anchored in standardization through existing practices and approaches. Moving forward would require more than a new vision. This contrast between aspiration and reality plays itself out in […]
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What Can We Learn from a Master Chef About Collaboration
By the Coordinator of the NetEduProject Jordi Díaz-Gibson in collaboration with Peter Miller & Alan J. Daly. Ferran Adria is widely recognized as one of the best chefs in the world. As education scholars, the authors of this commentary have developed an ongoing collaborative research relationship that has drawn considerably from Adria’s approach. They suggest that this emergent Adria-inspired way of collaboration contributes to understanding international collaboration and can significantly inform other education researchers who similarly seek substantive impact in their fluid and complex settings. Ferran Adria’s restaurant, El Bulli attracted patrons from across the globe to Roses (Girona, Spain) where they sampled not only Adria’s cuisine, but also his world famous innovative methods for creating and delivering a unique dining experience. El Bulli closed in 2011 at the height of its success and, while Adria’s reputation as a world master has continued to grow, his influence has accelerated into a broader sphere of creativity. Adria founded and heads the El Bulli Foundation, an international and interdisciplinary lab that rethinks cuisine with an innovative and design-based approach, and where new ideas and projects are lifted into reality. One of the most compelling indicators of Adria’s influence is the map identifying the locations […]
From Educational Organizations to Educational Ecosystems
Jordi Díaz-Gibson and Mireia Civís, coordinators of the NetEduProject Fully immersed in the 21st century, we can see that, at the educational level, efforts are being made to shift from organizational models based on hierarchical authority and control to more horizontal and network-connected organizational forms (Daly, 2010). This suggests a series of transitions in the educational world from independence to interdependence; from centralized leadership to distribution of leadership; from responsibilities to co-responsibility; from specialists to multidisciplinary generalists, and from dogma to dialogue. Thus, we understand that educational change and innovation in schools or other socio-educational organizations have to acknowledge these organizations to be located in the context of a neighbourhood or a community and that, at the same time, this wider social system also has a relevant role in education. Educational organizations have become more and more aware of the need to connect with their neighbourhood or community in order to improve their educational action. Recently there has been an increase in collaborative strategies among educational agents in the same area, thus setting up collaborative educational projects with attention focusing on children, youth and families themselves. These initiatives are based on the fact that the systematization of these relationships, formal […]
Human relationships are and will be the engine of the educational transformation in the 21st century
University of California San Diego Professor of Education Alan Daly is one of the leaders of the NetEduProject. In this interview he answers questions relating to the role of the social networks and learning ecosystems in the world of education. He shares the importance of cultivating and weaving social relationships in schools and communities to build social networks and learning ecosystems. And of course, today we share a well known image in the NetEduProject: human towers in Catalonia, Spain, a gràfic example of what human relationships can build. At the same time, talking about human relationships in this context of global pandemic and social distance, really touches our heart. It can be missunderstood or contradictory, but in our times social relationships are more important and powerful than ever. Thus, focusing in human relationships and learning ecosystems enable us to embrace our own sense of humanity and humility, connecting in deep and meaningful ways that are going to make fundamental change not just in education but in our broader society. Can you tell us what is a social network in education, and give us an example? When people hear ‘social networks’ they imagine Facebook or Twitter or something like this and […]
What if we understand Schools as a Learning Ecosystems in times of COVID-19 pandemic
Written by Jordi Díaz-Gibson and Alan Daly, NetEduProject As we write this many of us across the world are sheltered in place, not being able to safely leave our homes. This pandemic has its roots in how connected we are as a planet. Ironically, we only seem to attend to our human connectivity when it comes to historically negative events such as a pandemic. However, what if we really focused on the fact that these connections also hold the potential for equally positive impacts for our world. Sadly, it seems we rarely activate these systems for this purpose. In countries across the globe there are long standing educational inequities despite decades of attention, study, and work to alleviate systemic disparities. This statement is not to undermine the strides made, but as an educational community we still have a great distance to travel in becoming more equity minded and growing our educational systems in new and different directions. Perhaps one of contributing factors in not making greater progress on these issues is that many educational systems, and in fact individual educators, operate as independent units and as such may continue to create and replicate separate and unequal outcomes for students and communities. Typically, educational institutions and public agencies […]
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What Can We Learn from a Master Chef About Collaboration
By the Coordinator of the NetEduProject Jordi Díaz-Gibson in collaboration with Peter Miller & Alan J. Daly. Ferran Adria is widely recognized as one of the best chefs in the world. As education scholars, the authors of this commentary have developed an ongoing collaborative research relationship that has drawn considerably from Adria’s approach. They suggest that this emergent Adria-inspired way of collaboration contributes to understanding international collaboration and can significantly inform other education researchers who similarly seek substantive impact in their fluid and complex settings. Ferran Adria’s restaurant, El Bulli attracted patrons from across the globe to Roses (Girona, Spain) where they sampled not only Adria’s cuisine, but also his world famous innovative methods for creating and delivering a unique dining experience. El Bulli closed in 2011 at the height of its success and, while Adria’s reputation as a world master has continued to grow, his influence has accelerated into a broader sphere of creativity. Adria founded and heads the El Bulli Foundation, an international and interdisciplinary lab that rethinks cuisine with an innovative and design-based approach, and where new ideas and projects are lifted into reality. One of the most compelling indicators of Adria’s influence is the map identifying the locations […]
From Educational Organizations to Educational Ecosystems
Jordi Díaz-Gibson and Mireia Civís, coordinators of the NetEduProject Fully immersed in the 21st century, we can see that, at the educational level, efforts are being made to shift from organizational models based on hierarchical authority and control to more horizontal and network-connected organizational forms (Daly, 2010). This suggests a series of transitions in the educational world from independence to interdependence; from centralized leadership to distribution of leadership; from responsibilities to co-responsibility; from specialists to multidisciplinary generalists, and from dogma to dialogue. Thus, we understand that educational change and innovation in schools or other socio-educational organizations have to acknowledge these organizations to be located in the context of a neighbourhood or a community and that, at the same time, this wider social system also has a relevant role in education. Educational organizations have become more and more aware of the need to connect with their neighbourhood or community in order to improve their educational action. Recently there has been an increase in collaborative strategies among educational agents in the same area, thus setting up collaborative educational projects with attention focusing on children, youth and families themselves. These initiatives are based on the fact that the systematization of these relationships, formal […]
Human relationships are and will be the engine of the educational transformation in the 21st century
University of California San Diego Professor of Education Alan Daly is one of the leaders of the NetEduProject. In this interview he answers questions relating to the role of the social networks and learning ecosystems in the world of education. He shares the importance of cultivating and weaving social relationships in schools and communities to build social networks and learning ecosystems. And of course, today we share a well known image in the NetEduProject: human towers in Catalonia, Spain, a gràfic example of what human relationships can build. At the same time, talking about human relationships in this context of global pandemic and social distance, really touches our heart. It can be missunderstood or contradictory, but in our times social relationships are more important and powerful than ever. Thus, focusing in human relationships and learning ecosystems enable us to embrace our own sense of humanity and humility, connecting in deep and meaningful ways that are going to make fundamental change not just in education but in our broader society. Can you tell us what is a social network in education, and give us an example? When people hear ‘social networks’ they imagine Facebook or Twitter or something like this and […]
What if we understand Schools as a Learning Ecosystems in times of COVID-19 pandemic
Written by Jordi Díaz-Gibson and Alan Daly, NetEduProject As we write this many of us across the world are sheltered in place, not being able to safely leave our homes. This pandemic has its roots in how connected we are as a planet. Ironically, we only seem to attend to our human connectivity when it comes to historically negative events such as a pandemic. However, what if we really focused on the fact that these connections also hold the potential for equally positive impacts for our world. Sadly, it seems we rarely activate these systems for this purpose. In countries across the globe there are long standing educational inequities despite decades of attention, study, and work to alleviate systemic disparities. This statement is not to undermine the strides made, but as an educational community we still have a great distance to travel in becoming more equity minded and growing our educational systems in new and different directions. Perhaps one of contributing factors in not making greater progress on these issues is that many educational systems, and in fact individual educators, operate as independent units and as such may continue to create and replicate separate and unequal outcomes for students and communities. Typically, educational institutions and public agencies […]
How learning ecosystems evolve and how can leaders weave the whole change process
Weaving educational ecosystems in our districts and cities has become one of the greatest worldwide challenges for our systems to enhance learning and equity for the new era. The UNESCO (2020) publication “Education in a Post-COVID World: Nine Ideas for Public Action” indicates that those communities that have responded in an innovative, effective and resilient way to the crisis of COVID-19 are those who had shown greater collaboration between teachers, and between school and community actors. These ideas are also shown by other recent studies on school networks by Daly (2020) Azorín (2020) and Ion & Brown (2020). The reality of this pandemic has reminded us as a species that we are deeply connected to one another (Lancet 2020). Learning ecosystems are social infrastructure formed by diverse actors that share a purpose, and engage in collaboration to co-design and co-implement innovative responses to existing social and educational challenges. Learning ecosystems provide a new understanding of education from an ecosystemic perspective of actors and their relationships; they challenge traditional organizational boundaries while providing place-based focus on local schools, neighborhoods, cities, or transnational networks; they are based on systemic and cross-sectorial collaboration; and pursue systemic impact (Díaz-Gibson et al., 2020). Thus, one of the […]
A Question of Trust: The case of the Arcadia Unified School District
By Alan J. Daly, Katie Martin, Nicolette Van Halem, David Vannasdall, Devin Vodicka Arcadia Unified School District Superintendent, David Vannasdall, was visiting classrooms and noticed that every student in a kindergarten classroom had produced the exact same piece of artwork. It struck him in that moment how the learning experiences in many cases were at odds with the aspirations that they shared as a community. They had gone through a multi-stage process to identify their core values which embodied a sense of creativity and innovation: Imagine, Inquire, Inspire and yet this example underscored the need to do more. Arcadia Unified is widely recognized as one of the most successful K-12 systems as their students have 100% graduation and are successful by many metrics. Even so, their leaders also know that as the world continues to evolve the system and expectations in which education takes place must equally evolve and continue developing learners that thrive in an unpredictable world. During that walkthrough it became apparent how despite their vision, the systems set in place were anchored in standardization through existing practices and approaches. Moving forward would require more than a new vision. This contrast between aspiration and reality plays itself out in […]
NetEdu Workshop: Cultivating trust in learning ecosystems
Hello friends from the NetEdu Community, In our collective journey of transitioning from standardized educational systems to human and caring learning ecosystems, we are happy to share with all of you the date and focus of the next NetEdu Workshop that will happen on January 19th 2021 from 5 pm to 7.15 pm CET time (by Zoom). This time the workshop discussion will be focusing on a hot area for the global project: How leaders cultivate the seeds of learning and caring ecosystems, and specifically we will focus on trust building as a key seed for ecosystemic growth. For this we will have three leaders as panelists that have used our NetEdu tools from diverse ecosystem levels from around the world: – Juan David Pinzon, school leader and principal from Cundinamarca, Colombia –Montemorel School–– David Vannasdall, superintendent, district leader from California, United States -the Arcadia Unified School District–– Tatiana Soler, Victoria Ibañez and Imma Adell, School network leaders from Barcelona, Spain –Networks for Change-. We will have a deep dive on trust drivers and consraints, its relevance, its measurement and its meaning, with crossed discussion from the leaders ground, we will also have breakout rooms, a fish bowl and of course, many surprises to come. As we usually do, building […]
Practical wisdom from the NetEdu Workshop on Cultivating trust in learning ecosystems
Last Tuesday January 19th 2021 we celebrated our NetEdu Workshop on TRUST as a fundamental seed to be cultivated in learning ecosystems. It was lovely to see and listen to you all, and was amazing to share the learning space with more than 40 leaders and educators from the 5 continents that are really devoting their energy on making educational systems more human, relational and interwoven. The term ‘Learning Ecosystem‘ is gaining a powerful attention across the world -and this will increase in 2021- as a crucial approach to transform education and enhance learning opportunities for all, empower every student as a changemaker, weave caring and meaningful relationships within and across school boarders, enable school-community collaboration, grow individual and collective well-being and foster planet sustainability. But the huge expectations on the concept and named outcomes contrast with the low research based knoledge and understanding we have around how we can weave these human ecosystems and try to enhance all these relevant and ambicious challenges. And this is why the NetEdu Community and all these faces are so important! Meditating and connecting to our collective purpose However, there is already a big consensus around the idea of TRUST being the glue […]
Invitation to UNESCO-NetEdu Learning Ecosystem discovery event
We invite you into a participatory discussion and the project initiation of the UNESCO-NetEdu Learning and Digital Ecosystem Tool. Sign up now to October 27th 5- 6.30pm CET (RSVP here). We would like to engage with you on the novel approach being taken to co-design and co-prototype an online tool aimed to support government leaders and policymakers to weave country and local learning and digital Ecosystems. Our hope is that, in time, this tool will support and enhance opportunities for lifelong learning and wellbeing at country and regional levels. The intention for the tool is to facilitate a process of cultivating and weaving trustful and innovative learning ecosystems, through strengthening the quantity and quality of meaningful interconnection between public, private and civil society stakeholders. The project is led by the NetEduProject –FPCEE, Blanquerna– in collaboration with Teach MIllions, Kaleidoscope lights and the Jacobs Foundation. The tool is being commissioned and supported by UNESCO and will be built in the context of the Global Education Coalition, as part of the efforts to achieve a resilient and sustainable recovery from the pandemic. We are hoping to connect with potential partners that share our collective purpose and that would be interested in the further collaborative development of the UNESCO-NetEdu tool, as well as share […]
Sense of belonging: an invisible essential condition for thriving school-based Learning Ecosystems
Last Friday December 3rd 2021 we celebrated our SchoolWeavers Workshop with the project Community of researchers, school leaders, teachers and district leaders from 17 countries around the world, spread over the five continents. These precious time together allowed us a deeper weaving, a deeper thinking and a deeper support between people froma schools, universities and educational organizations who join the SchoolWeavers. It is amazing how connected and aligned we are beyond our contexts and diverse realities, we speak the same language and we face similar issues, and most importantly, we share the purpose of reimagining our school communities to enhance learning and wellbeing opportunities for all. Thanks for your involvement in the session and to share your learnings, thoughts, ideas and expertise with all of us. The Workshop experience is an invaluable source of collective wisdom that allowed us to grow together and strengthen our community and purpose. The ScholWeavers tool is an International project led by the NetEduProject team (Catalyzed by PSITIC, Blanquerna) and funded by the Jacobs Foundation and the Government of Spain. The intention behind the SchoolWeavers tool is to weave school communities around the globe to rethink learning and bound the transition from standardized educational systems […]
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