About MEEP: The Mapping Educational Ecosystems Project aims to help solve one of today’s biggest challenges — how to build learning institutions that work for people at all stages of life, from birth until natural death. We are a community-initiative that promotes holistic learning and educational transformation. About MEEP’s Community Learning Labs: All our events are designed to welcome diverse learners and celebrate educators from our community’s educational ecosystem. Our first community learning lab, in June 2014, focused on ‘Sensing the Present,’ asking where is learning happening in our community, and where do we want and need it to happen? Our second lab, ‘Mapping Education’s Future,’ explores how people are shaping education to meet the needs of humans and our living planet while incorporating new developments in technology and neuroscience into everyday learning.

1. hello world, join us!
Community Learning Lab for MEEP:
Mapping Educational Ecosystems Project
21 June 2014
10 am - 5:30 pm
South Berkeley Public Library
1901 Russell St, Berkeley, CA

2. Mapping Education Ecosystems Project. A birth story.
I. An alchemical connection.
pavel & darshan meet at alchemy cafe in
South Berkeley, CA.
Life Cycle Mapping
II1. Sensing the Present:
Visualizing our
Community’s
Education Ecosystem
II. Smart Dinner Party!
1, 2, 3, 4 of them!
20+ people!
Jeff comes to Party & Stays
to found MEEP!
IV. MEEP’s Next Steps: Designing the Future of Education…

3. YouMap: Personal Mapping
Goal: Reflect on Your learning Experiences & find Your first team.
You and your learning experiences are the point of reference for our mapping techniques.
0. (5m) Framing! Let’s connect our personal stories of learning to our community’s educational ecosystem.
1. (2m) Team Up! Form a team of 4 people.
2. (10m) You! Use the sheet of paper to map your life as a learner.
● Who are you as a learner & teacher?
● What have been the sources of learning & unlearning in your life?
● Where do you want learning to happen?
3. (25m) Us! Form a learning community.
● What do you want to share about your personal map?
You!
● What do you learn when you look at each others’ maps?
● What do you want to add to your life as learner?
4. (10m) Harvest! Select 3-5 insights of the team & record those insights on stickies.
Appoint someone to present those insights to the larger community.
5. (10-15m: around 1.5m per group) Share!
● Share with others: What does the team wish to share with the larger community?
● Post your team’s insights on the AFFINITY map (at the end of the day, we’ll revisit our insights.

4. Education: Institutional processes of learning from birth until death.
Pragmatic
Learning
Community
Learning
Personal
Learning
-1 Human Life Cycle 100+

5. Pragmatic Learning: Get a job! Or, education with a career orientation.
Early
Childhood:
Learning in the
context of family &
childcare.
Formal
Schooling:
Learning in K-
12, colleges,
universities.
Professional
Development:
Learning in the
workplace.
Eldercare:
Learning to age,
promoting
quality life,
easing death.
-1 Human Life Cycle 100+

6. Personal Learning: Learning to be YOU! Or, education aimed at
Crises:
Learning to prevent
& survive loss,
trauma, pain.
Socialization:
Learning to navigate
everyday situations.
Enrichment:
Learning to foster
personal growth.
personal development.

7. Life Cycle Mapping: charting humans needs across the human life cycle.
Early
Childhood:
Learning in the
context of family &
childcare.
what are the human needs?
Formal
Schooling:
Learning in K-
12, colleges,
universities.
Professional
Development:
Learning in the
workplace.
Eldercare:
Learning to age,
promoting
quality life,
easing death.
are these needs being met?

8. Life Cycle Mapping
Goal: Map human needs across the human life cycle.
0. (10m) Framing! What are the human needs of people living in the Bay Area? Are these needs being met
by the current education system? Can they be met by the developing educational ecosystem?
1. (2m) Team Up! Form a new team of 4 people.
2. (10m) You-squared!
● Where are you and your family in the human life cycle, and what your needs?
● What are the roles of personal, pragmatic, and community education in your life?
● Are your learning needs being met by the current education system?
3. (20m) Us! Form a learning community.
● What do you want to share about yourself in the human life cycle?
● How do you see your needs changing in the next 10, 20, 30 years, etc.?
● How can our educational ecosystem better meet your needs from birth until natural death?
4. (15m) Harvest!
● Identify 5 learning needs that either are most important for your groups and your learning
community (e.g. becoming a capable professional), or give a unique perspective on learning (e.g.
reintegrating incarcerated individuals back into the community)
● In addition to that, identify 1-2-3 insights on the learning community you want to share with the
group
● Appoint someone to present your team’s insights to the whole group.

9. 1,2,3 Community Reflection
GOALs: Reflect On Our Process & learning; Define the Educational Ecosystem based on needs & places for holistic
learning.
1. (20m, around 4m per group) Share!
● Each team’s Harvester shares five needs identified by the group and posts them on the LIFE CYCLE
map.
● After that, each team’s Harvester shares 1, 2, 3+ insights that are put on the AFFINITY map.
2. (10m) Connect & Reflect!
● What do our insights and our LIFE CYCLE map say about our educational ecosystem?
● What needs are being met? Which ones aren’t?
● Where are the gaps in our current educational system?

10. Community Learning
Festivals
Afterschool
Organizations
Senior
Centers
Spiritual
Communities
Healers & Health
Educators
Libraries
Summer Camp
Programs
Museums
Cultural
Centers
Domestic Violence
Shelters
These are just a
few sources of
community
education!

11. Spatial Mapping: one block’s learning ecosystem.
Learning happens here!
Wat Mongkolratanaram is Berkeley’s
Thai Cultural Center & Temple. It
offers language classes, youth
services, & spiritual instruction.
Learning happens here!
Berkeley Public Library’s South Branch
lends magazines, books, tools, &
computers. It offers family literacy
classes & hosts a teen room &
community meeting room.
Learning happens here! At
Berkeley’s Grove Park, people learn
tennis & practice softball.
Learning happens here!
The MLK Youth Services Center
provides academic tutoring,
leadership development, & violence
prevention training.

12. Spatial Mapping
Goals: Visualize Our educational ecosystem in real Space! Connect our Places of learning to human needs in the
Bay Area.
0. (5m) Frame!
1. (2m) Team Up! Form a new team of 4 people.
2. (15m) Demo! Marina Kukso demonstrates how communities are using LocalWiki to share knowledge and
information.
3. (10m) You!
● What is one or more real place(s) for learning that you want to represent on the physical map of our
community's educational ecosystem? This place might exist in your neighborhood or be your workplace.
● What learning needs does this place meet in our community?
● If you were a tour guide, what would you want to show and tell about that place?
4. (20m) Us! Share your places for learning with your team and create a collective physical map.
● Introduce your place(s) for learning to your team. Mark them on the map if possible.
● How might we translate this information into LocalWiki?
○ Information that is already in the group - let’s share it! At least three options: 1. each group member
types their information into LocalWiki after today, 2. the group appoints one person to type all this
information, or 3. you send us emails with all information they would like for us to put online.
○ What might we do beyond that? (Use LocalWiki with your class, upload photos, create and maintain an
account for entries, etc.)
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13. Spatial Mapping
Goals: Visualize Our educational ecosystem in real Space! Connect our Places of learning to human needs in the
Bay Area.
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5. (10m) Harvest! Select 3-5 places for learning that you want to place back on the LIFE CYCLE map.
● What are your team’s places of learning?
● Where are they on the spatial map?
● How do your team’s places of learning relate to the needs that you identified in the human life cycle?
Create team stickies that have: (1) name of learning places (2) how each site addresses human needs.
● How do you want to show and tell your team’s places of learning?
6. (30m) Share! Post your places of learning back on the LIFE CYCLE map with the corresponding needs
that it addresses. Let’s look for connections.
● What needs are being met by the existing places of learning that were posted on the life cycle map?
● What needs are still not met by the existing places of learning? What gaps exist?

14. affinity mapping
GOAL: Find our points of unity, map the near future
0. Frame! Let’s find our points of unity and form natural partnerships to bring a holistic educational
ecosystem into being.
1. (30m) Us! Break into groups of 5-7 people (three groups in total)
● What were your key insights from…
○ personal mapping?
○ life cycle mapping?
○ spatial mapping?
● Given these insights, what are your next steps? What are the natural partnerships you saw in
the room today? With whom do you want to team up in the near future?
● In what way can we make the education ecosystem more holistic for all learners?
2. (10m) Harvest! Appoint a Harvester to share your team’s insights before the whole group.
● Are there themes we share?
● What are our points of unity?
● What are our unique insights & questions?
3. (20m) Planting seeds! Share your team’s insights before the whole group.

15. Closing: Moving Forward Together
Goal: Share personal Stories of Reflection, Critique, and Celebration
1. (5m) Moving Forward! What are MEEP’s natural next steps?
● Platform - open space for people to meet their needs & goals as educators
● Website - space for curriculum, reflection (not yet a wiki)
● Meetup - meep on the social web
● Smart dinner parties - idea for gathering educators together
● Next labs - future mapping + empathy mapping (September) - we’ll see afterwards!
● Email survey for insights & critiques to improve MEEP
● LocalWiki - entering information into global platform for LocalWiki
2. (20m) Reflection, Critique, & Celebration
● What did you gain from today’s community learning lab?
● What suggestions do you have to strengthen MEEP’s community learning labs?
3. (5m) Hug, high five, & handshake for educational transformation!
● Introduce yourself to someone new or newish.
● Ask if they’re open to a hug, high five, or handshake.
● Close the day!
So long, and thanks for all the smarts!