split between 2.0 system and 3.0 reality

interesting day in vienna with the Minister of Education and 220 school innovators across the whole system (ministry, principals, teachers, students). three take aways from the network dialogue today:

(1) there is a deep split between the real practitioners of innovation in education on the one hand and the national political discourse on education on the other hand. most key innovation practitioners basically agree about what needed to change:

–more autonomy to the schools

–a changed and deepened (eye-ball-to-eye ball) relationship between students and their teachers

–a changed and deepened relationship of students with their own learning process (student centric)

–a federal system that supports the emerging landscape of new forms of learning.

on the other hand there is the national system that still reponds in a 2.0 mode (that is, driven by abstract special interest groups).

(2) the core challenge for the minister and the entire system is how to move from a 2.0 to a 3.0 system, that is, from a special interest group driven abstract political process to a new governance process that is inspired by seeing and adapting to the evolving core process of education in all its different regional and sectoral contexts.

(3) To create 3.0 type of governance systems requires a) a national platform of school innovators and b) a host of regional platforms that link the local and regional innovators with each other and with their counterparts in business and society in order to collectively sense and support the emerging core process of eduational innovation across the entire system (”lerning form the future”).

we also need strong support systems and parallel learning structures for all the innovators of the current school system in order to balance the immune system reaction of the old system.

i was struck by the clear and powerful articulation of that split between3.0 reality and 2.0 system. and that the essence of the 3.0 system is to overcome and heal that split. i bet we have that type of split pretty much across all major systems: finance, health, education, sustainability–you name it. right? how do you experience that split?

Otto

reinventing government/governance

one thing new for me this year is to start working with governments/ministries, something i didnt have the opportunity to do previously. over the last few days i attended a Leadership Round Table in D.C. hosted by the World Bank Institute on reinventing leadership capacity building for governments and societies in fragile states, and a Round Table on Reinventing Capitalism that i hosted at MIT, that was attended, among others, by Achim Steiner, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and Jeffrey Hollender, founder and chair of Seventh Generation.  What struck me in those meetings is something very simple: that we cannot solve 3.0 problems (that require eco-system wide awareness and innovation) with 2.0 responses (that are limited by the ego-awareness of special interest groups that drive the legislative process). i have put my thoughts on reinventing the leadership capacity building in ten propositions: leadership capacity building is not about filling a gap but about igniting fields of inspired connection and action… Jeffrey wrote a nice account on the Roundtable in his blog.