21st Century Learning Hub

Creating a Co-Learning system, Seasonal Young Workers in Mon State, Myanmar will enable to collaborate and communicate in the community learning hubs to share experience, develop skills and tools to connect opportunities through creative and critical thinking process.

The solution: 21st Century Learning Hub is a system with four different components

• Point B: Design Thinking for Community Engagement Course
• Community Hubs: Led by Change Agents from Point B
• Target Users: Youths in Seasonal Works
• Online Platform

The entry point, Design Thinking for Community Engagement Course for local heroes from different parts of Lower Myanmar build up necessary 21st Century Skills like collaboration, communication, critical and creative thinking through Design Thinking values: human centered, empathy, mindfulness, optimism and experimentation. The experiential learning projects in Point B prepared to change their mindsets and skill sets in facilitating, researching and learning by doing. All lesson plans, experiences and projects will upload to online platform to let everyone access how to create 21st Century Learning Courses for youths.

In the next step of the system, the change agents will research opportunities, collaborate with community outliers or multi stakeholders according to their passion and areas of interests in their community to create access point, joining in existing community hubs or piloting new hubs for youths. Through the community hubs, youths can get inspiration and learn by doing projects that fits to both their interests and local context.

Finally, with the skills they have in the hubs form projects, they can identify leverage point to uplift their opportunities in their environment by doing research, small experiments. As result, they can create innovative solutions to escape from local challenges in their workforce and advantage better job opportunities that they passionate. 

Seasonal young workers from under privilege communities of the countryside are thriving in the livelihood sectors. The alarming problems are the lack of personal capabilities, difficult access to resources and the system to support these resources. Not regarding their working skills as profession block them to oversee working environment as learning space. So, high demand of skillful worker create a gap between current young workers and employers’ ideals. 

Therefore, the solution will flip their working environment into learning space with skills and tools to observe leverage point and fill gaps in creating better opportunities and connections for their future workforce. 

Instead of linear approach, the solution will develop spiral approach through iteration from feedback loops. Moreover, in order to develop sustainable development, the solutions focus more in grounded approach that seeks local heroes or outliers in existing system. They will communicate, collaborate with multi stakeholders to perform co-creation process and leverage opportunities, connections for their future workforce. As result, they will develop a sense of ownership and self-motivation to create change in their systems. Moreover, the technology: online platform will be a sharing source, monitoring mechanism while supporting life long learning opportunities.

UNICEF

Mawlamyine University, Mawlamyine

Department of Social Welfare, Myanmar

Care International in Myanmar, Generating Rubber Opportunities in Myanmar

University of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego