ActOnLearning Andreea Gatman

In this episode, Tuovi Ronkainen, talks about future skills, and invites pedagogy for teaching with the practice of students to imagine future, UNESCO agenda for FUTURES Anticipation talks about literacy of futures, competencies of critically thinking about multiple scenario and critcally imagining alternatives.


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In this episode, we meet Joao Gabriel Almeida Doctor of Communication, Coordinador de Círculos at Instituto de Pensamiento y Cultura en América Latina. Reflecting on what kind of stakeholder engagement should we support in order to build platforms that support meaningful learning. Joao, combines the pedagogical with the technological challenges as well as ideas, with his experience of being an online teacher exclusively since 2016, and also researcher. In the first few minutes will introduce the context of our dialogue with Joao and then we invite you to a deep listening experience and co-creating with Joao's reflections and invitations. I am most grateful and so excited to be working with student agents and artists, T (13y old) and P ( 10 y old) that make all the editing.





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In this episode of "Moving through Reimagining education with children, parents, and facilitators from Kubrio" we meet Dawn Fung. In my opinion, this episode is about freedom as learning, it is about learning as LIFE, and as adults dreaming a better way. Here is something Dawn wrote as a post on her social media and that I stand by: “This time, I am developing our young talents and my own creative development will follow theirs. I find this order of life satisfying. It is our young people’s time and we should not hinder their development.” This is an image of paradigm shift practicing emerging strategies, listening towards WeQ.  Dawn Fung founded Homeschool Singapore. She was one of the key leaders in the Singapore homeschooling landscape in the early 2010s-2020s…She believes that education reform begins in the family and every child should have every right to great education. She runs two companies, ParentED International and Little U, focusing on personalising care for parenting, teaching and children’s education for all. She provides consultation to individuals and companies on human resource development with a unique unschooling/homeschooling approach. Dawn Fung homeschools her three children and is based in Singapore.”…so much more to find out, check out the website https://dawnfung.sg/. You might like to take a pencil, paper and scribble images about learning, education, development while you listen. You would enjoy hearing Dawn sharing what she would like to be, do, and learn in the next 1-2 years and how that moves us all somehow. It was a joy to meet Dawn. Strength, innovation, resourcefulness, feminine principle, unlearning are some of the words that comes to mind from this dialogue. 


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Ranjani Shettar- Ranjani is international artist, proud mother and wife, just to allow a short introduction for Ranjani ’s ”works are in many prestigious museum collections and have been the subject of several solo presentations including at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (The MET) (2018)..” and I invite you to access more on her work here. In this episode with Ranjani, you would be partnering with the idea “how do I as an adult, parent maybe, step up my game and raise curiosity at the level of a child”? with the beautiful idea Ranjani expresses “I am only as educated as my youngest child, I am having my second chance”. Isn’t this an expression of infinite mindset for learning and education (thinking of the great resource book called Infinite game by Simon Sinek) ? I am a political scientist so I have to appreciate the decoding of how concepts work in practice,  the learning in 21st-century skills-based allowing it to happen. We have one such decoding from this interview with Ranjani “ how can we support children learn?”: 1. Their interest/motivation (unhindered time) ; 2. Adult guidance, and facilitation when needed to be available; 3. Access to learning resources. As this year started for me with the beautiful words from Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi wishing us “ renewed optimism” I hear Ranjani mentioning “ she chooses to be optimistic about technology to support teachers’ work”.  Last but not least one of my favorite scaffolding models for learning, that I use in teachers' training programs that of Lev Vygotsky’s proximity zone where learning becomes actually possible, and I always offer the example of a childhood moment when we learn to use a bicycle without the training wheels, so you want to listen to Ranjani telling us her story about this moment.

There is this naturality about the dialogue that will make you feel close and supported, reflected, and that I believe will open new perspectives. I leave you with this question as you jump into this amazing episode “ what is it that you naturally need to thrive to be creative?”.


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In this episode, we meet Heli Aikio. Heli's work description in her own words " In Finland, we have three Saami languages and each Saami group has their own music tradition. We Aanaar Saami people have music tradition called livđe. I have written about livđe on Sámi musihkka akademiija homepage." We approach via Heli's music Integrative Practice, the practice of teachers and students leadership in the classroom. Livde the local music it is not sung to someone, "we sing them", " narrative songs describe people, events, and feelings without a sense of this relationship of dedication, or ownership". You can follow more on this topic in this article https://actonlearning.org/integrative-practices-how-we-step-and-show-up-in-the-classroom-matters/ 


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In this episode, we talk with Tiina Otala about Reimagining upper Education, a case of Aalto University. I really appreciate the idea of  "how do we support multidisciplinary" and Tiina takes the examples of the different department spaces " they blend, nothing needs to stand up more than the rest". How is a space inviting well-being in very concrete ways, and how students can choose to experiment-based learning or a more academic approach setting foundation. The culture of " learn by doing mistakes", and my absolute favorite this time, how is your idea, your design, creation, prototype stands the test of " future proof", how Tiina calls it " students and teachers will challenge your creation with the future proof".  How do we practice imagination and vision for learning spaces where people- researchers, students, and teachers feel so easy to approach projects from many different perspectives, Tiina mentions " it is so easy, as all spaces are so transparent, you accidentally meet people", you cannot avoid cooperation, collaboration and getting your work supported by others work. Besides the transparency factor, is "scale it down" element, students don't want to leave this place, they learn, work, socialize, eat, and create their own personal events, "it feels like really your home,  comfortable place" although we are talking about the 2nd largest University in Finland. We talk about the ecosystem, and last but not least future thinking, as Tiina can see how her work will develop. In this article we develop more the topic of "future proof" spaces https://actonlearning.org/future-proof-spaces/


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