Learning Networks Overview
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The document outlines Ashoka Canada's Learning Networks initiative to support educators in creating campus cultures that foster social innovation and changemaking among students. The initiative includes hosting Changemaker Showcases to feature social innovators, supporting a Changemaker Challenge fund for student-led projects, and helping schools systematize social entrepreneurship education through a Changemaker Campus program. The goal is to make changemaking education a standard part of many Canadian schools and multiply ongoing student social innovation projects over the next five years.
Learning Networks Overview
- 1. Learning Networks Building Campus Cultures for Changemaking
- 2. How is the world different because you are here? ~ Bill Drayton
- 3. What if higher education had a higher purpose than jobs and careers? What if it prepared you to ask and answer the fundamental life question...
- 4. “How is the world different because I am here?”
- 5. Through our Learning Networks initative, we are supporting educators to create campus cultures that foster changemaking and social innovation... World-class education should help students change the world.
- 6. Learning Networks 1. Showcase social innovation locally and nationally 2. Support student- led changemaking 3. Systematize social entrepreneurship education CHANGEMAKER SHOWCASE CHANGEMAKER CHALLENGE
- 7. CHANGEMAKER SHOWCASE We help curate campus events that feature social innovators, promote networking, and encourage peer learning. We record talks by inspirational changemakers and share them across Ashoka’s global network. 2013 2014 2015 5 showcases 10 showcases 15 showcases
- 8. CHANGEMAKER CHALLENGE We inspire and support youth-led projects that create change by launching the first fund in Canada to match crowdfunding by students. We leverage peer networks, not competition, to drive innovation. 2013 2014 2015 15 projects 30 projects 60 projects
- 9. CHANGEMAKER CAMPUS We help schools systematize social entrepreneurship education and embed changemaking across disciplines. We connect them to a global network of changemaker schools to help them share best practices. 2013 2014 2015 1 campus 3 campuses 5 campuses
- 10. Five Year Outcomes Changemaking education is systematized by many schools across Canada. Ongoing celebration and effective sharing of changemaking initiatives by students. Changemaking projects multiply, backed by greater financial resources.
- 11. Charles Tsai Program Director Richard Cerezo Storyteller Jenn McRae Project Leader Learning Networks Team
- 13. Ashoka Canada 366 Adelaide #606 Toronto, ON M5V 1R9 Email: canadainfo@ashoka.org canada.ashoka.org changemakershowcase.ca @AshokaCanada