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Distribute 20% of school time to personal projects. Give students and teachers an online platform with project- and resource database as a tool and network. Engage and inspire students to learn on basis of what they want to accomplish, not to accomplish on basis of what they have learn
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No Right Brain Left BehindTHE 80/20 SCHOOL
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Great companies understand that
allowing employees to have personal projects
on company time is good for them.
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WHY SHOULDN’T THE SAME PRINCIPLE
WORK FOR SCHOOLS?
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INPUT + FUN + COLLABORATIONEncouraging creative problem solving by giving students the opportunity, time and means to explore their interests in combination with school subjects. Guiding them to create their own problems to solve, and encouraging them to seek input from other students, teachers and resources to learn what is necessary to implement their project.
DIRECTION
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Nourishing creativityCreativity and new ideas are born out of former ideas, knowledge and research. Input is a crucial part in nourishing creativity.
Photo by Lee Nachtigal, http://www.flickr.com/photos/lxn271/277869765/
INPUT
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When you do something that is fun and gratifying you tend to learn more from the experience than if you find it boring. Fun challenges are more likely to make you push yourself to be able to accomplish them.
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FUNEngaging and challenging
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Allowing minds and ideas to come together and create even bigger and better ideas is a key skill for future generations. The ability to seek out people who complement yourself in order to solve a challenge, opposed to just picking the people you like, is a skill that could be practiced more in school.
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COLLABORATIONComplement strengths
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IDEA: 80/20Personal projectsLeveraging the students’ own interests and allowing them to use the knowledge they obtain at school to make interesting projects. Distributing 80% of school time to curricular activities and 20% to personal projects. But also allow students access to school resources outside of school hours and encourage them to spend free time on their projects.
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SOLUTION: A PROJECT PLATFORMEasy access to tons of projectsA platform where the students have access to a massive amount of interesting projects and challenges they can do. The platform is also a place where process and results can be shared with students and teachers nationwide, to inspire and to give and receive feedback.
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‣ Interdisciplinary To make students work outside of their academic comfort zone, as well as to encourage them to collaborate with students who have different skill sets than themselves and engage in student-to-student teaching.
‣ Crowdsourced Students and teachers alike, nationwide, add their projects and challenges to the project database so others can do them as well, making the project database ever growing.
‣ Syndicated Projects can also be syndicated from sites like www.makezine.com and www.instructables.com.
PROJECT DATABASE
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‣ Students Students can share their interests, strengths and ambitions with other students to facilitate team forming and student-to-student teaching.
‣ Teachers Teachers can share specialities and interest, and show if and to what extent they are available for out of class guidance.
‣ Academic merits Teachers can pair academic merits to students’ self proclaimed interests and strengths to get greater insight into how to make classes more engaging, as well as to guide team forming.
RESOURCE DATABASE
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‣ Freedom The students pick or make the projects they want to work on, based on passion, regardless of skills and knowledge.
‣ Guidance The teachers guide and help the students on their projects.
‣ Collaboration The students collaborate on their project and are encouraged to help each other and work together to accomplish bigger tasks.
‣ Challenge Challenge and inspire students to learn on basis of what they want to accomplish, not to accomplish on basis of what they have learnt.
KEY FEATURES
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‣ Google 80 20 policy‣ TED Talk: Dale Dougherty: We are makers‣ Paul van Brunschot’s idea about curiosity in schools‣ The NO RIGHT BRAIN LEFT BEHIND community
IDEA INSPIRED BY
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‣ Åsmund Gravem @gravem
‣ Gro Larsson @rexcreation
‣ Johannes Rummelhoff @johannesr
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