Philippe Greier Knappenstrasse 33a 8580 Köflach Austria phone +43 669 17 2299 76 email [email protected]www www.present-e.org page 1/18 UID: ATU 62302822 Volksbank für die SÜD- und WESTsteiermark account owner: Philippe Greier account number: 5611 686 0000 banking registration: 44 810 NGO for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurial Education We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our chil- dren. (Native American Proverb) Learning in the 21st Century Field Study of Edu on Tour 2011: Austria and Edu on Tour 2012: Northern Europe Philippe Greier 2013-11-24 www.present-e.org
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3.2.2. Social Factors .............................................................................................................................. 10
3.2.5. Collection of Methods and learning content of the next generation ........................................ 12
3.3. Edu on Tour 2011: Austria .............................................................................................................. 14
3.3.1. VS Odilienschule ......................................................................................................................... 14
3.3.2. VS Kalkleiten ............................................................................................................................... 14
3.3.3. VS Holzer .................................................................................................................................... 15
3.3.10. Regional meetings for exchanging knowledge and collaboration ............................................. 17
3.4. Edu on Tour 2012: Northern Europe .............................................................................................. 17
4. Who are we? ...................................................................................................................................... 18
4.1. What are you doing? ...................................................................................................................... 18
4.2. presente! services and products .................................................................................................... 18
UID: ATU 62302822 Volksbank für die SÜD- und WESTsteiermark
account owner Philippe Greier
account # 5611 686 0000 bank regist.: 44 810
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1. Executive Summary
Existing education projects and foundations are working on same issues with different results. So the team around presente! asked the question of how to set up a learning environment in our quickly transforming world.
Our assignment has been to identify and present initiatives that are reinventing schools; using new cur-riculum designs and teaching methods; creating innovative learning environments; and are rethinking their system through the use of technology more creatively and providing more personalized collabora-tive, creative, and problem-solving learning spaces.
We executed Edu on Tour 2011: Austria (EoT2011) in Styria, visited 10 schools and conducted 4 Creative Edu Labs (CEL) gatherings during a process of 3 months. By doing so we could raise the awareness of decision makers, link education institutions and develop our international activities.
In 2012 we run Edu on Tour 2012: Northern Europe. We visited 6 learning environments throughout Northern Europe, organized 2 Creative Edu Labs live and ended the tour with a presentation at the So-cial Capital World Forum in Gothenborg.
What are our findings about the educators and institutions that we met on our way? There are some characteristics that were significant in all learning environments. All institutions were built up by a vital team of educators that are realizing their dream and bringing in their full person and personal interest (like Permaculture, food, sports, music,…) with passion. Nearly all institutions had strong common vision and were able to create a space where this vision was realized. Constraints of law or systematical struc-ture were overcome with a good portion of courage and will to go the extra mile. Most of them activat-ed a great bunch of social capital consisting of parents, local families, regional businesses and support of the local governments like mayors and politicians.
This try out phase showed also desire for collaboration and collective solutions. At the same time indi-viduals and organizations are overload with many problems through structural shortcomings of the edu-
UID: ATU 62302822 Volksbank für die SÜD- und WESTsteiermark
account owner Philippe Greier
account # 5611 686 0000 bank regist.: 44 810
IBAN: AT574481052251310000 BIC: VOKKAT2102G
Field Study EoT 1, 2 2013-11-14
cation system. Besides that we realized that there is a great need to learn how to cooperate and collab-orate.
However great parts of our society are still educated with old paradigms and have built up strong habits of competition and separation and ask for more structured support and leadership in order to gain sus-tainable results.
2. Introduction
Education for the 21st century is challenged into adopting new paradigms, driven by an era of technolo-gy that has had a great impact on our society while providing unlimited possibilities for exciting new dis-coveries and developments. (Michael Noer/Forbes, 19.11.2012).
The architects of future educational systems need to learn how use creativity and non-conformity to deal with lack of resources (funding, infrastructure, quality of educators) and diverse local challenges to establish an effective educational system. (Compare: Stacy Childress; HBR, March 2012; Louis Soares; Center of American Progress, June 7, 2012)
With our formal educational systems regarded as deficient presente!’s vision is built around the core idea that a challenged system developed innovative solutions that can be cross-pollinized and shared. presente! mobilizes the strengths of a dynamic and innovative part of educational systems and gains a multiplier effect by bonding those institutions by organizing local and national events and establishing the collaborative online space Reevo, a platform for exchange and co-creation.
3. Edu on Tour as a disruptive Real Life Learning environment
3.1. Starting Point of Edu on Tour or why do we run this craziness
Bringing 2 dimensions of learning together by experiencing new forms of education in schools, commu-nities, universities and organization and running EoT as a mobile learning space might give us the oppor-tunity to initiate societal transformations around schools and learning environments.
If we take a critical look on how learning in our existing education system is conducted and alternatives in education are working (compare the research of John Hattie, short summary below) we might figure out the path of how to deal with new paradigms and create new spaces also for organizations to learn.
There is a great need to learn how to work, learn and live with our new mindset of collaboration and self-organization we set up EoT as a disruptive learning environment. We could identify opportunities and difficulties of working and learning together as a group while sustaining and creating our living. We experienced various forms of learning in communities while sustaining a fluid network.
EoT is virtually and the participants all meet together on the first day of the tour. We identified trust and a shared vision as key success factors and experienced how hard it is to keep a personal vision and fol-low new forms of collaboration.
UID: ATU 62302822 Volksbank für die SÜD- und WESTsteiermark
account owner Philippe Greier
account # 5611 686 0000 bank regist.: 44 810
IBAN: AT574481052251310000 BIC: VOKKAT2102G
Field Study EoT 1, 2 2013-11-14
3.3. Edu on Tour 2011: Austria
We visited 9 Styrian school projects from 03.11.2011 – 30.01.2012. The choice of schools was done with Norbert Holzer (Pädagogische Hochschule Graz; Applied University for Education Graz) and is based on ethics, success in transferring Kulturtechniken (writing, reading, calculating, media,..)
UID: ATU 62302822 Volksbank für die SÜD- und WESTsteiermark
account owner Philippe Greier
account # 5611 686 0000 bank regist.: 44 810
IBAN: AT574481052251310000 BIC: VOKKAT2102G
Field Study EoT 1, 2 2013-11-14
Differentiation Well connected to regional business world
Success example for design and media education
Critical and responsible Students
Many rewards and prices for applications of students
3.3.9. Akademisches Gymnasium
Form Public High-School
Contact Hildegard Kribitz
Differentiation open-minded headmaster
strong relationships and partnerships with local businesses
bad infrastructure – old building – progressive ideas and approach
strong student projects
3.3.10. Regional meetings for exchanging knowledge and collaboration
During this process we conducted 4 CEL gatherings and follow up meetings with around 30 participants consisting of education pioneers, social entrepreneurs and multipliers. We faced great interest of crea-tive minds and technic nerds to get in collaboration with those schools and bring real life learning op-portunities to forward thinking schools. Results and Minutes of Meeting can be found at (mostly in German): http://piratenpad.de/presente.
3.4. Edu on Tour 2012: Northern Europe
Out of our experience in Austria a 1-week program was coming out as a dynamic group learning process with concrete results and a social impact. In November 2012 12 social entrepreneurs and education ac-tivists from all around the world met up to a social media campaign for making alternatives in education visible.
The participants realized the tour within a self-organizing process from and met the first time in person at the start in Amsterdam.
Among those were also the responsible stuff and founders of Nuestra Escuela (Puerto Rico; Stated fund-ed school with democratic principles; http://www.nuestraescuela.org/) that is one of the driving forces in the education transition in South America. During the Edu on Tour Styria we visited 5 alternative edu-cation institutions.
A traveling report of the EoT2012 can be found at: http://www.knowmads.nl/the-educational-revolution/
Knowmads Business School (Netherlands; Alternative Business School; 1 Year Full – Time Pro-gram) http://www.knowmads.nl/
UID: ATU 62302822 Volksbank für die SÜD- und WESTsteiermark
account owner Philippe Greier
account # 5611 686 0000 bank regist.: 44 810
IBAN: AT574481052251310000 BIC: VOKKAT2102G
Field Study EoT 1, 2 2013-11-14
Neue Schule Hamburg (Germany; Democratic School) http://www.neue-schule-hamburg.org/, Kinder entscheiden total frei über Lerninhalte werden von Erwachsenen nur beraten) http://www.neue-schule-hamburg.org/
D&F Academy (Germany; 1 Year Change Maker Program, 6 weeks fulltime) http://dfacademy.org/
KaosPilots (Denmark; Business school; official Bachelor degree possible) http://www.kaospilot.dk/
YIP - International Youth Program (Sweden; 1 year Change Maker Program, Social Entrepreneur-ship) http://yip.se/
Nuestra Escuela (Regelschule mit demokratischen Prinzipien, Schüler entscheiden selbst über ih-re persönliche Lernstrategie) http://www.nuestraescuela.org/
4. Who are we?
presente! is a global movement fostering free quality education with the goal to experiencing new forms of socities. We created the legal structure in form of a NGO based in Austria. presente! – Social Innova-tion and Entrepreneurial Education. Our main purpose is to bring creativity and a stronger participation of our younger generations and local communities in the decision making processes.
4.1. What are you doing?
presente! establishes a strong network of supporters and contributors and prepares enables the con-nection and the exchange of innovative and successful education initiatives and institutions on a local and global base. presente! increases social capital by collaboration and corporation and create a positive momentum. presente! integrates interdisciplinary and international networks in a creative process and pragmatic manner.
4.2. presente! services and products
Developing and setting up Self Organized Learning Spaces & Education organizations like Natural Learning Space
Setting up Social Media Campaigns and events like EduLab live Conducting Learning Journeys like Edu on Tour Organizing and establishing alternative education conferences and labs like Creative Edu Lab Mobilizing a community of education activists for the collaborative online platform