Lenovo Education Summit

Working together with Lenovo, The Learnerspace developed a new and unique event, an Education Summit which convened more than 50 heads of schools and leaders of education organizations, who spent two days and one night at a hotel in Areco to learn together and design collaborative projects related to the future of education. Sponsored by … Read more

Design Learning en Holy Trinity College

Como evento de comienzo del año de trabajo, The Learnerspace implementó un taller de diseño de planificaciones en el colegio Trinity de Mar del Plata, una de las escuelas más innovadoras de Buenos Aires. A través de esta aplicación de Design Learning, los docentes, primeramente, repasaron las principales tendencias mundiales en educación, con el objetivo … Read more

Design Learning at Holy Trinity College

As the kickoff event for the 2019 academic year, The Learnerspace worked with Holy Trinity College in Mar del Plata to launch their planning process. Through our planning by design workshop, teachers were able to learn about the main drivers for education, discern how to best summarize these drivers to serve as the foundations for … Read more

IBM Educathon

Más de 45 estudiantes, junto con sus profesores, participaron de un Educathon en la sede de IBM Argentina en Martínez, diseñando proyectos educativos a partir de nuestra metodología de Design Learning, utilizando un portal que desarrollamos para la ocasión. Tanto los alumnos como sus docentes pudieron recorrer las instalaciones de IBM, interactuar con robots, aprender … Read more

IBM Educathon

More than 45 students and their teachers from schools in Buenos Aires worked together at IBM in Martínez to design exciting educational projects incorporating some of the latest trends in education, after having visited and learned about the latest advances in artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and experienced firsthand some of the IBM … Read more

3G Smart Conversations

En The Learnerspace trabajamos para hacer realidad uno de los principios más importantes del nuevo paradigma del conocimiento: que se aprende colaborativamente, y que todos tenemos una responsabilidad por co-construir el aprendizaje. En las instancias de desarrollo profesional, no existe más el concepto de una audiencia pasiva que escucha a los disertantes, sino que creemos … Read more

3G Smart Conversations

At The Learnerspace we work to make true on one of the principles of the new educational paradigm: that we all learn from each other, and, most importantly, in professional development instances there is no longer such a thing as a passive audience. We believe in the value of providing conference attendees with a way … Read more

Recalculating: in education, still the same destination but we are lost and need a new route.

by Gabriel Rshaid In what is perhaps one of the most prescient examples of the frenetic obsolescence rhythm of technology, GPSs, now irreversibly embedded in smart phones, did mark an era. From having to rely on maps and a sometimes elusive sense of direction, this almost miraculous technology freed us completely from finding a way, … Read more

Learning: the Missing Link in Design

Despite the state of quasi global confusion that seems to be enveloping education, there is clear consensus that creativity and critical thinking are some of the new alphabetization skills in a world where, irreversibly, contents are infinitely and easily available, just a few keystrokes or screen touches away. In that context, it makes sense that … Read more

The rise of the phoenix: teachers reborn from the ashes of the old learning paradigm.

In Greek mythology, the Phoenix is a legendary creature that is born out of the ashes of their dead predecessors, thus having becoming an almost universal symbol for renewal. The teaching profession, as we know it, is dying a slow death, in the indisputable awareness that we are no longer needed to dispense our knowledge … Read more

Order, chaos and taxonomies: a reflection on the new nature of knowledge.

by Gabriel Rshaid (gabriel.rshaid@thelearnerspace.org) For ages immemorial we have sought to bring order to most things in life, including knowledge. Much of the learning that still takes place is predicated on trying to break down, systematize, sort out and categorize complex reality into areas, disciplines, subject matters, units, themes, topics and categories. These attempts at … Read more