This is a rather old example of open networks and co-evolution, between fir trees and fungi, as it happens - it's been going 350 million years so far.

It's a great example of the links between networks, emergence and ecosystems (and footprints). Click on the image for more details....

And what's so interesting about it? We can use 'emergence' to

describe learning in the networked world, where surprising, unexpected,

challenging, scary, creative, etc. things happen, and use it to engage and

collaborate on 'emergent learning' (and practice). We developed 3D

footprints to help us do this (see Drawing Footprints for details),

with a number of different factors, in four clusters.

(See the Factors and Clusters page, here, for details and a brief

explanation of each factor).

For further information see the following pages:

• Emergence

• Emergence and Prescription

• Emergent Curriculum