LEARNING HUB

Humberto Schwab
Innovation philosopher and physicist
President of PISA society (Promoción de la Innovación Socrática de Aprendizaje)

Humberto Schwab is an innovation philosopher and is the owner of Humberto Schwab Filosofia SL. He works with business, NGO and government to design new strategies and futures. He is an experienced innovator of education in the Netherlands and Spain. He developed the FutureLAB and the EuroLAB methods.

In the industrial age, the church, the school, the university, and the parliament were some of the places where meaning, values and commodities were created, maintained and guarded. In this society, education prepared youngsters for the fixed standardized world the adult teacher knew.

“Meaning creation” is no longer a top down process. Instead, we now pass information and knowledge from citizens to citizens and from groups to groups. In the new paradigm, the individual must learn to be manager, creator, producer, consumer, teacher, student, governor and citizen all at the same time.

Adolescents are creating this new world and they have to acquire capabilities to do so as soon as possible. We cannot continue to drill them for a society that does no longer exist!

The Learning Hub is a laboratory of the future. All citizens of any age can participate in it. As a learner or a teacher. These hubs are from the first kick-off intercommunicated with knowledge and information dots around the world. In them, students learn to analyze human needs, challenges and problems in society, and to design products, services or solutions with the spirit and ambition of entrepreneurship.

The Socratic dialogue will be the organizer of the program. The Socratic way of learning is a method by which the student is challenged to construct knowledge, guided by questions that the tutor poses. This method makes the students aware of their capacity to think and design. The tutor is not the teacher pouring knowledge into the students’ brain, it is the midwife who stimulates the awakening of intellectual capacities.

Personal growth implicates the development of three aspects of the learning capacity. First we have to learn to observe and understand the facts of the inner and outer world. Secondly we have to reflect on the meaning of this factual knowledge. What are the implications of these concepts? Are there rival explanations? In the third phase we make concrete new designs and new knowledge by deciding a new approach or a plan of action. It is the capability to interfere in the world that surrounds us. This third capacity can also be called the innovative capacity.

There is a fixed structure in the personal growth program (weekly physical/virtual tutorial sessions, a minimum of Socratic dialog sessions, feedback on plans, basic skills courses on/offline, innovation labs, workshops and master classes). From this starting point, students can choose any learning experience: it can be a tutor, a course on/offline, a master class with any expert, an experience in a business incubator, a part time work, etc.

Progress is monitored by a tutor and digital applications. There is a strong peer to peer evaluation system and an open rating application. Any adult can participate in all services, products and meetings as a student, a tutor, a teacher or a master.

The aim of the Learning Hub is to deliver to people of any age or class the capability to design their own meaningful life, integrating all the relevant and valuable knowledge and wisdom.

LEARNING HUB

Humberto SchwabInnovation philosopher and physicistPresident of PISA society (Promoción de la Innovación Socrática de Aprendizaje)
Humberto Schwab is an innovation philosopher and is the owner of Humberto Schwab Filosofia SL. He works with business, NGO and government to design new strategies and futures. He is an experienced innovator of education in the Netherlands and Spain. He developed the FutureLAB and the EuroLAB methods.

In the industrial age, the church, the school, the university, and the parliament were some of the places where meaning, values and commodities were created, maintained and guarded. In this society, education prepared youngsters for the fixed standardized world the adult teacher knew.

“Meaning creation” is no longer a top down process. Instead, we now pass information and knowledge from citizens to citizens and from groups to groups. In the new paradigm, the individual must learn to be manager, creator, producer, consumer, teacher, student, governor and citizen all at the same time.

Adolescents are creating this new world and they have to acquire capabilities to do so as soon as possible. We cannot continue to drill them for a society that does no longer exist!

The Learning Hub is a laboratory of the future. All citizens of any age can participate in it. As a learner or a teacher. These hubs are from the first kick-off intercommunicated with knowledge and information dots around the world. In them, students learn to analyze human needs, challenges and problems in society, and to design products, services or solutions with the spirit and ambition of entrepreneurship.
The Socratic dialogue will be the organizer of the program. The Socratic way of learning is a method by which the student is challenged to construct knowledge, guided by questions that the tutor poses. This method makes the students aware of their capacity to think and design. The tutor is not the teacher pouring knowledge into the students’ brain, it is the midwife who stimulates the awakening of intellectual capacities.

Personal growth implicates the development of three aspects of the learning capacity. First we have to learn to observe and understand the facts of the inner and outer world. Secondly we have to reflect on the meaning of this factual knowledge. What are the implications of these concepts? Are there rival explanations? In the third phase we make concrete new designs and new knowledge by deciding a new approach or a plan of action. It is the capability to interfere in the world that surrounds us. This third capacity can also be called the innovative capacity.

There is a fixed structure in the personal growth program (weekly physical/virtual tutorial sessions, a minimum of Socratic dialog sessions, feedback on plans, basic skills courses on/offline, innovation labs, workshops and master classes). From this starting point, students can choose any learning experience: it can be a tutor, a course on/offline, a master class with any expert, an experience in a business incubator, a part time work, etc.

Progress is monitored by a tutor and digital applications. There is a strong peer to peer evaluation system and an open rating application. Any adult can participate in all services, products and meetings as a student, a tutor, a teacher or a master.
The aim of the Learning Hub is to deliver to people of any age or class the capability to design their own meaningful life, integrating all the relevant and valuable knowledge and wisdom.