Open Schooling personal shopper
Michel'Angelo Grima Hall Annex
Many EU-funded projects have been exploring the potential of Open Schooling to equip students with the skills they need in tomorrow’s world. These projects created methodologies, community platforms, guidelines, kits, sets of activities, supportive frameworks, etc. In other words, a profusion of tools.
On paper, they all target the same group: science teachers willing to transform schools into open education spaces. But they are also a great source of inspiration for science engagement institutions looking for new or different educational programmes to implement in and with their community.
In this session, professionals who took part in the development of Open Schooling materials will guide you through some of the innovative tools and approaches that you could adopt in your institutions. They will assist you in choosing the most appropriate trends for your institutions, goals followed, age groups, and topics addressed. Join us for a full customer experience in the Open Schooling market.
This session is sponsored by Archimedes Exhibitions as a part of the 21st century skills conference track.
Outcomes: what will participants get from this session? Skills, knowledge, experience etc.
Participants will be introduced to the Open Schooling approach and will then self-evaluate their needs to be advised on the most appropriate tools and methodologies to implement Open Schooling in their own context. They will walk away with innovative tools developed by science engagement professionals to develop new projects with schools and rich local partnerships.
Session speakers
Claudia has co-developed the Schools As Living Labs methodology. A methodology created by and for educators - formal or informal - to foster collaboration between schools and local communities. It offers a concrete way to approach science education by encouraging young people to tackle relevant problems using the living lab approach. Claudia will briefly guide you through some of the tools developed by the project, among them the Roadmap for Living Labs in Education and the Onion Model for reaching out to new partners. Come to compose your own toolbox that will fit your needs, contexts, partners, etc.
International Liaison Coordinator
European Children's Universities Network EUCU.NET
Cyril will bring with him 3 tools that have been developed by the PHERECLOS project to implement innovative forms of collaboration in education:
1. A Teacher Training Innovation Toolkit on Open Schooling which explores the needs and opportunities in pre-service and in-service training of teachers
2. An Advocacy Toolkit for school leaders and teachers which shall enable them to better argue for the potential that lies in Open Schooling
3. An Implementation Toolkit which is aiming at supporting education administrators and innovators to better plan and assess the piloting of Open Schooling in practice.
Together we will explore how these tools can be introduced into our daily practice.
Project Manager of Living Lab for Health
Laia is a project manager at the Living Lab for Health at IrsiCaixa. Her team is involved in the CONNECT project that aims to find better solutions to our persistent and complex challenges by transforming the educational system into a more open system. The project provides useful guidelines that invite students to become proactive for the resolution of local challenges with participatory and transdisciplinary research approaches. The challenges addressed by the project include tools to improve the promotion of mental health and the prevention of Covid-19, among many others. Laia will guide participants on how they can use these tools to promote the UN movement of Health Promoting Schools.
Head of education and evaluation departments
The Bloomfield Science Museum team co-created and implemented four learning scenarios with teachers in schools. Chagit will present how they helped teachers collaborate with experts: how do they identify relevant experts in the community? How can teachers be supported in approaching and preparing these experts to meet their students? How can children be prepared for the meeting with the expert in order to make it meaningful? In addition, Chagit will share her experience of adapting existing programmes to your curriculum and local context.
How can science engagement institutions become community hubs that build, catalyse and strengthen connections and work between schools and partners from science, technology, arts and culture? By sharing real cases from Open Science Hubs, e.g. how they support schools establishing their makerspaces, co-developing workshops with artists or co-creating open schooling-based curricula, Cristina will promote participant's reflection on how to incorporate these processes in their institutions' daily life.
