1 October 2020 - 30 September 2023
The consortium will support schools, teachers, educators and students of all ages to make synergies between science, creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation. It will offer tools for collaboration between formal, non-formal and informal educational providers, enterprise and civil society, and support schools in becoming agents of community well-being where families are encouraged to become real partners in the learning process. Importantly it will work closely with teachers and school administrators to set their own vision for open schooling, and tailor a model which will work with their context, needs and opportunities.
The Make it Open team brings together pioneers in maker education with three networks of educators covering both formal and non(in)formal science education. The project will create open schooling hubs in 10 European countries where more than 150 schools will each collaborate with enterprises and civil society organisations in order to run activities where children solve challenges in and with the community using tools and approaches from maker education.
Make it Open has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no. 872106.
List of project partners
- Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem
- Waag Society
- Copernicus Science Center
- Fixperts Ltd
- European Schoolnet
- Columbia University (Transformative Learning Technologies Lab and FabLearn Program)
- Ecsite
Resources
Material for workshops and exhibitions, Practical guide or toolkit
Over the past decade, the national educational standards of numerous countries, including the United States, Canada, Finland and many European countries, have evolved to incorporate relevant scientific practices and engineering skills for the modern world. However, as difficult as it is to write modernised national standards, it is much harder to transpose that into schools and classrooms. In most educational systems worldwide, including many countries with modern standards, students still sit in rows and memorise equations in a lecture-style classroom setting.
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Education & learning
Practical guide or toolkit
Get inspired by lesson plans from other educators and start now with Open Schooling!
Biodiversity around us - 12+ yrs.
Dealing with Waste - 12-14 yrs.
Decision-Making - 14-15 yrs.
Energy Research - 11-12 yrs.
Category:
Education & learning
Practical guide or toolkit
These information packs developed by the Make it Open team gives teachers and school leaders information on open schooling, the benefits of such a practice and how one can begin exploring open schooling practices within their school/community.
Category:
Education & learning