We are currently collaborating with IBM in using their world-class Watson AI engine to develop a new and innovative conference app that we will be running at the ESSARP Conference. Conference attendees will be able to actively engage with speakers, and using conceptual summarization and sentiment analysis will be able to re-signify what speakers share … Read more
As we have been doing for the past six years, we worked with Juan Pablo Ventura, Sofía Sengenberger, Daniel Vilasetru and world renowned speaker Ben Walden to deliver a three-day Leader’s Journey retreat for secondary school student leaders in the beautiful setting of La Reserva in Capilla del Señor. Through a unique set of reflections, … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The ineffably paradoxical world of education seems to be perpetually caught up amongst what, by now, is a state of global confusion, with multiple trends that seemingly coexist in the collective consciousness of educators, albeit, in many cases, being contradictory in and of themselves. Thus, us poor practitioners have to deal with a multiplicity of … Read more
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
