RippleFlowEcoMap
Individual Agency — the ability to act on individually meaningful knowledge, using uniquely individual skills to achieve an intended result.
In a world full of emerging possibilities, the greatest strength is the capacity to recognise new opportunities where one’s unique potential can be activated—not just for personal fulfilment, but to create value for others. Because in contributing meaningfully to others, we realise our purpose, and we find sustainable ways to live and earn in a constantly shifting world.
The path to this purposeful agency lies in the active, ethical, and creative use of the 5Cs:each student brings these capacities to life in their own way,
with their own rhythm, and—critically—through the smart,
adaptive use of continuously evolving technologies.
The Ripples@Work (R@W) Learning Venture model is a multimodal, interdisciplinary, and participatory pedagogy grounded in SMAIMO (Social Media, AI, and Mobile Technologies).
Even if your school restricts the use of any of these technologies, R@W offers a structured and controlled learning environment that supports students in developing essential skills and safely practicing the use of these life-critical digital tools.
The RippleFlowEcoMap below illustrates:
- The flow of learning venture progression, expressed through two binary dynamics of iterative Feedback Loops: Catching & Being Caught and the Learning Ripple: Push & Pull.
2. It maps the core ecosystemic spaces of R@W:
- Being-in-the-World – emphasising the use of mobile technologies for real-world data collection.
- Detectives’ Studio – conducted on online collaborative platforms, fostering skills in remote
teamwork, digital dialogue, and collective problem-solving - Cinematic Chronicles (CinChron) – highlighting digital apps and the development of reflective
practices through collaboration with AI, supported by the CinChron Oracle. - ChatRoom – enabling creative student–teacher collaboration through AI and digital platforms
- RippleVerse – a controlled social media platform integrated into the R@W site.
Students encounter themselves through relational tensions embedded in each learning space of the R@W ecosystem, such as:
- Being-in-the-World: Individual ↺ Curiosity Existing Knowledge & Conventional Wisdom
- Detectives’ Studio: Self-Interest ↺ Team Goals
- Cinematic Chronicles: Individual Idiosyncrasy ↺ Generated Feedback
- ChatRoom: Personal Preferences ↺ Learning Task Requirements
- RippleVerse: Individual Uniqueness ↺ Accepted Norms
By adopting R@W’s binary dynamics of Feedback Loops and the Learning Ripple, the progression of a Learning Venture unfolds as a spiral — moving forward while supporting the learner’s cognitive and ethical growth.
This illustration shows a RippleFlow that emerges from the fusion of Design Thinking and the startup logic of Validated Learning.
The spiral maps a ten-week progression:
Week 1 – Launch of the venture
Week 2 – Research
Week 3 – Problem Definition
Week 4 – Ideation
Week 5 – Experimentation
Week 6 – Validation
Week 7 – Refinement
Week 8 – Finalisation
Week 9 – Showcase
Week 10 – Reflection
Each week, teams share their developing ideas, infographics, or videos on the Venture Hub Feed and receive feedback from the Hubsters.
