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Synopsis: Education: School: Schoolwork: Learning:

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trial and error and rapid learning that are accompanying the birth of this new economy. But we can be certain that its emergence will encourage ever more interest in how innovation can best be supported,

and should evolve through shared learning. Social innovations often struggle against the odds all of our chances of success will increase

PRA uses a range of visualisation techniques such as mapping as a tool for learning about sexual health and reproduction,

An outstanding recent example is New zealand academic John Hattie's work on schools,‘Visible Learning, 'which brings together 800 meta-analyses of

Feedback loops are a necessary precondition for learning, reviewing and improving. This could include front line service research to tap into the expertise of practitioners and front line staff

Examples include the idea of disability rights, closedloop manufacturing, zero-carbon housing or lifelong learning.

personalised learning in schools and self-managed healthcare, and are likely to be critical to future productivity gains in public services. 11 24) Changing roles.

CARE. 7. Hattie, J. 2008)‘ Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement.'

Nooteboom, B. 2000)‘ Learning and Innovation in Organisations and Economies.''Oxford: Oxford university Press. 12. Laderman Ukeles, M. 2001) On Maintenance and Sanitation Art.

and the role of the prison officer around an intensive learning programme. 1 39) Engagement of ex-users The Arizona Department of Corrections has involved recent prisoners in designing programmes to help others reintegrate into society

they make sculptures using A Learning Prison. The prison is divided up into houses (the image above is a cross section) with cells on the top three floors, a communal space on the ground floor,

and a learning centre in the basement. Image courtesy of Hilary Cottam, Buschow Henley, Do Tank Ltd. 2 participants'bodies to portray events and personal experiences.

but now cover topics as diverse as marketing and healthcare. 76) Participatory workshops are also known as Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) or Participatory Learning and Action (PLA).

2002)‘ Learning Works: The 21st Century Prison.''London: Do Tank Ltd. 2. See Boal, A. 1979)‘ Theatre of the Oppressed.'

the idea being that faster implementation would speed up learning. This idea has now 3 spread into service prototyping

and learning because of the need to freeze the model to allow for formal evaluation. 88) Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTS) test a procedure within a randomly chosen sample of the public.

The combination of social learning and technological advancement that open testing demonstrates has many applications in encouraging sustainable and systemic innovation that is both supply and demand driven.

listening, and learning. Management is not only about the 4 70 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION giving of orders

and promoted fast learning. 165) Endorsement by regulators for example, the impact of NICE in increasing the pressure on healthcare commissioners to take up more cost effective methods,

SCALING AND DIFFUSION 89 through a series of events and learning visits. 168) Global diffusion and encouragement, for example through GBUPA, the World bank's Global Programme on Output-Based Aid,

Everdale is an organic farm and environmental learning centre. Its purpose is to teach sustainable living practices,

and adaptation and learning processes are required for the generative diffusion of innovation. The NHS‘Adapt

and identify new solutions to problems through increased effectiveness, expertise, knowledge transfer, and learning. Collaboration can help institutions work better

The package includes a‘Best Practice Guide'made up of Quality Standards and Learning Resources.

These generally provide a much more objective measure of social dynamics than the indicators chosen by individual organisations to prove their impact. 229) Assessment as learning,

or learning according to fundamentally different principles. These invariably involve many different elements. Systemic innovation is very different from innovation in products or services.

and implementation of the programme, served as a process for community learning. The project has acted as a major demonstration programme for national and international applications. 251) Support for new patterns of power and responsibility,

and Bed Zed in the UK. 254) Designing and trialling platforms to trigger systemic innovation including peer-to-peer models such as the School of Everything and digital learning environments such as colleges in second life. 255) Comprehensive pilots,

and a 6 SYSTEMIC CHANGE 121 series of learning events. 272) Organising formal coalitions for change with explicit goals,

600 people gathered outside the power station the UK's biggest single source of carbon dioxide-for ten days of learning and sustainable living,

promote and disseminate learning and best practice. These are promoted sometimes strongly by funders for example, the European commission's sustainable urban development network URBACT and the EQUAL Programme. 126 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION Championing innovation Individual roles can be created to scout out,

allow fast learning across a community of innovators; and establish clear pathways for scaling up the most promising models.

social entrepreneurs, nonprofit organisation managers and others. 296) Innovation learning labs. There are now a range of innovation learning labs within universities.

promoting learning and collaboration across This is the winning team from 2009's Social Innovation Camp.

which is based on theories of learning in action‘learning while doing'.'They have proved an effective tool for practitioners in local government in the UK,

and social entrepreneurship. 305) Action learning sets are groups of between four and seven people who come together on a regular basis to reflect on their work,

where students are divided into action learning sets for the duration of the one year course. 306) Membership organisations like the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in the UK

The flow of information from the periphery to the centre is critical for learning, reviewing and improving.

groups and mobilising ex-offenders in service design (see method 38). 321) Learning cultures. The biggest barrier to innovation is the lack of a culture of learning that rewards public agencies and public servants for learning from their own mistakes learning from other sectors,

and learning from other places. One feature of the most innovative public agencies is that they are comfortable adopting ideas from diverse and surprising sources. 322) Safe spaces for innovation.

Examples include The 27e Region in France. There are 26 administrative regions in France. This virtual 27th‘region'is intended to provide the other regions with the space

and collaborative learning. The idea has spread and there are now Room 13 studios in Mexico, Nepal, Austria, South africa, USA, Turkey, Holland, China, and Canada.

Here, Uprisers are taking part in a learning session at the Roffey Park Leadership Retreat.

The learning programme is based on‘learning through doing 'and peer-learning. 487) Mutual support networks such as Community Action Network (CAN) which promotes social entrepreneurship

Issues such as the distribution of working time, the valorisation of voluntary labour, the content and channels of life skills learning, the role of many of the social and educational services, the arrangements for retirement and unemployment, the size

In 2008, campers converged on Kingsnorth power station for a week of learning, sustainable living and climate action.

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and buying up companies or licenses that they see as promising. 12 Learning and Evolving In a fourth stage,

learning and adaptation turns the ideas into forms that may be very different from the expectations of the pioneers.

and in the public sector, there is an increasingly sophisticated understanding of how learning takes place. New models such as the collaboratives in health (used by the U k. National Health Service to improve innovation

These examples highlight innovation as a learning curve rather than as the eureka moment of a lone genius. Ideas start off as possibilities that are understood only incompletely by their inventors.

learning once again becomes more tacit, until another set of simpler syntheses emerge. Some organizations appear particularly good at maintaining the momentum from innovation rather than being stuck in a particular form or market.

or aggregating learning. 20 As such, they have not yet provided widely acknowledged models or sufficient practical insights for practitioners:

and where there are sophisticated metrics of success that can reward rapid learning and evolving end goals.

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and also in encouraging more women to participate in learning to code through open workshops and support networks.

and Technological Development, the Lifelong Learning Program and other education and cultural programs (such as Youth in Action or MEDIA),

Some interesting examples include the organization of learning seminars the establishment of clusters of policy makers,

or the establishment of learning communities. Some initiatives regarding this tool are evidence building (such as the European union Youth Reports-http://ec. europa. eu/youth/policy/implementation/report en. htm)

Other relevant activities are on ICT for health, inclusion, government, sustainable growth, energy and sustainability, 22 learning, tele-care applications and so forth.

and 32 learning and education activities are only a few examples. The Fab Foundation (http://www. fabfoundation. org/)is an example of the latter.

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Although the link between learning, or knowledge transfer, and economic development is by no means a straightforward one,

Epistemic Communities, Situated Learning and Open source Software Development, Working Paper, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Management, Technical University of Denmark.

Public and private learning in a changing society, Harmondsworth: Penguin. Steindl, J (990. From Stagnation in the 930s to Slow Growth in the 970s, in Political economy in the 20th century, Maxine Berg Ed.,London:

A Way of Knowing and Learning, London: Routledge. Watzlawick, P, Beavin, J H, and D Jackson (967).

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2013) of social learning, where novel socio-technical configurations evolve. Furthermore, some novel configurations break through

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31technological trends in Digital Social Innovation 35what are we learning about the impact of digital technologies on Social Innovation?

and from new models of learning, access to knowledge and education, to new ways of improving the quality of the environment,

These kinds of projects are able to combine open hardware technologies with new learning methods to experiment with new educational practices,

and integrated within the learning environment. 27 Table 4 Health, wellbeing and inclusion Sustainable socioeconomic models Energy

& constructing informal learning networks: Fab Academy Institute for network culture Code Dojos Hacking culture as sharing skills and knowledge Running research projects

What are we learning about the impact of digital technologies on Social Innovation? Analysing network data:

This process will create learning capabilities, and absorptive capacity, exploiting the creativity of Europe, building digital literacy, skills and inclusion.

but also a kind of learning tool to understand what digital social innovation concretely means. Create better visualisation with the current relational data that can be exported (see here an example of the current visualisations) Better internal search system Addition of social network functionalities to the DSI mapping,

Work Package 6 Recommendations The objective of this work package is to compile the learning of the project by distilling a set of policy recommendations for Digital Social Innovation.

Iterative Learning and Prototyping: Importantly, neither the Your Priorities nor the Better Reykjavik websites were Citizen Foundation team's first attempt at creating an‘electronic democratic'web platform.

Social Innovation Exchange (SIX), Sustainable Everyday Project (SEP), Learning Network on Sustainability (Lens), Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living (PERL) and International Association

Training in the Fablab is based on doing projects and learning from peers. A Fablab gives access to individuals to use lab facilities to make almost anything (that does not hurt anyone.

a peer review system, a learning management tool, and a locus for intra-and inter-institutional collaboration.

They purport that the peer-learning aspect could be made even stronger through the addition of design elements in the process and on the crowdsourcing hardware.

and communications technology) packages like the Raspberry Pi are directly contributing to positive and measurable outcomes as a learning tool for students in developing countries.

In 2013 a Raspberry Pi ICT learning environment was installed at Dachio Primary and JHS Schools,

For this reason Khan academy Lite was developed as an offline version of Khan academy‘s curriculum of free learning materials.

With the Pi, a 64gb SD card to put all the learning materials on (which actually costs about twice what the Pi you'll need to run it on does)

It has developed software tools designed to stop people including government agencies and corporations learning web users location or tracking their browsing habits.

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