Our Global Collaboration series highlights stories from our global community and how their collaboration is inspiring change in the world of education and innovations.
Through the HundrED platform, we all get a glimpse into some of the most inspiring education practices around the world. Beyond inspiration, the platform has worked as a meeting place for innovators, where they not only share ideas but have also partnered to help spread innovations to other regions. These collaborations not only act as catalysts for ideas to live and flourish beyond the classrooms they currently occupy but also serve as examples of how global collaboration is necessary in order to fuel social progress.
We caught up with some of our ambassadors and innovators to find out how being a part of the HundrED community has inspired and influenced their work. These are their stories.
Linda Liukas, Hello Ruby
My background is in software engineering and programming and one of the reasons the technology industry has moved so fast is because we build on top of each others ideas. There is this idea of a community repository of knowledge that is really popular in the world of open-source, where every solution can be enhanced and made better by other people and you can borrow and build.
When I started work in the world of education and pedagogy I was surprised that there was no uniform way of sharing knowledge from one teacher to another. And there were these pockets of information around the world but no platform to share. For me, HundrED is like GitHub is for programmers, a way of sharing knowledge and learning from one another and frankly building on top of each other's ideas
Kinvara Jardine Paterson, Worlds Largest Lesson
One of the biggest challenges in education is, we can so often seem like we are doing all these innovations in isolation and this is the first time I have been to an event where the narrative has been so explicit on partnerships through HundrED’s work by connecting us all together. I’m feeling really inspired and I have definitely met so many new people that we can collaborate with. Collaboration and partnerships are key to the transformation that is needed in education.
Michael Fitzgerald & Jaya Ramchandani, IAUastroEDU"
It’s nice to be here in Finland because I follow a lot of educational trends and have been reading a lot about the Finnish education system. Personally, I run quite a few projects that are incorporating project-based learning and phenomena based learning so it was great to also go to a school where they figured out how to implement it school-wide, not just three teachers out of forty doing it somewhere.
I go to a lot of conferences, I go to astronomy conferences, science education conferences and education research conferences and there, everyone gets together and does a ten-minute talk about what they do, and they are really zooming in, trying to figure out how one little cog in this big machine works. How does that cog look like? How do you get it to turn or move up and down etc? The focus is on these small little compartments of the bigger picture. What I think HundrED brings is a way for education practitioners and researchers from all different fields to come together, and instead of focusing on minute cogs of the machine, it's figuring out how to distribute and make a larger impact with all these innovations and findings.
Learn more about how you can become a part of the HundrED Community, and feel inspired to make the change where you are.
