Communities of practice. Upgrade yourself!. Start

So informal that is a school form which boast over 150 graduates in less than 4 years?... and even more if you know that graduates of a course of 16 weeks there who develops his talent as far away as Dubai and New York, just to give an example. It´s important to share those elements that are successful and the ingredients that have made it an enriching experience for all who participate in it.

Digital Invaders successfully responds to the urge to recruit talent generator of ideas and put it together to start an educational Project. Initially defined as talent identification course, contradicts the idea that what is defined is limited, however had to start the project. 

Is interesting to note that the importance of the idea and the desire to change that which does not meet the needs converge when starting September 1, 2009 the first generation of Invaders, WebScout 1.0 “upgrade yourself”, and with it a rich learning experience of all natures, actually doing the mission of education UNESCO proposes to “allow all without exception, all his talents to fruition and all creation capabilities, which means that everyone can be responsible of himself and make his personal project”. This happens overcoming cultural barriers, space, time, opportunity… Together to build a future in which self – realization goes hand whit the growth of the computer. 

            From there, a great deal of talent, hard work, perseverance and creativity have been basic elements of Digital Invaders breathe. More than 150 warriors have believed in this great educational project. Grupo W, creative agency school. A lot of anecdotes, experiences, disasters, successes, disagreements and celebrations have marked the life of this short educational entity. They show that learning space con be anywhere, especially where daily work is brewing and which promotes collaboration between students and teachers, which in this case teachers are some of the talents who work in the agency, adding to a project that pay off in excellent trained talent to achieve the objectives to the agency, which has won countless international awards.

              

            Every four months, exactly 16 weeks, is launching a call published in social networks to recruit on average 150 briefs per generation, of which only 15 are selected for a place on this course, essentially a community of learning and practice that has talented creative from around the Word. They leave their life to focus on this period of time, in school activities, and at the end present projects, previously agreed as they teachers as a brief, rather as a challenge to solve than a meaningless work. These are proposals are amazing quality, encouraging teachers and students to do their best in every generation since extenuated make a research on what is done and how it works, especially in the technological, be very objective forcing on goals, and with a capacity of discrimination about what is useful and what will not work well. 

Each generation has marked its course, an element that recovers the value of the constant evolution of continual improvement and full respect for the interests, abilities and needs of the group, honoring the first cry invader “Upgrade yourself” in all there is a different expression that identifies them to unite its members, evolving materials which integrates elements that respond to the rhythm that the creative industry requires and that is not limited to what you have just a few km. away, but what is done around the word. “If you´re going to compare it with the best”, making generations but similar values and beliefs, each seal is different and challenge to overcome. 

Following only dictated by UNESCO, “We need crazy ideas like this, when it is shown that usual approaches do not give any results”, in the invaders words, “with unorthodox methods get results unconventional”.

“The fact that the rapidly evolving structure of employment is a pretext for claiming that basic knowledge must be sufficient to prepare individuals to face a changing Word”, and that knowledge will be essential to prepare today´s generations to search tirelessly answers, not only to meet a need, but to make profound changes. We seek to create curiosity, desire for improvement, learning to learn constantly. I think we should develop skills and abilities that allow long learning anytime, anywhere. 

 “Is shown that cooperation with industry raises the quality of teaching, when students and teachers work poses particular problems that require moving from the realm of ideas to the market,” this is the ultimate learning place for adults and youth to identify which is the best place to work.

Almost four years, ten generations, more than 150 invaders… “Big people love the numbers” Antonie De Saint - Exupéry