Research

How We Learn

Research, neuroscience and psychology.

Readings/Sites:

• The Effort Effect – According to a Stanford psychologist, you’ll reach new heights if you learn to embrace the occasional tumble.

Videos:

• The Effect of Praise on Mindset – Video from the Vook “Mind in the Making: The Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs Volume.

Space and Time

Schedules, room design and virtual spaces.

Readings/blogs:

• Make Space 4 Learning – a blog focusing on learning spaces and how the can be optimized.
• Building Capacity – Head meets heart in Canada’s latest school designs. Head meets heart in Canada’s newest school designs

Videos:

• Active Learning Classrooms – Lynda Fraser and students discuss the impact of room layout on collaboration and student engagement.
• Dr. Eric Mazur – Active Learning Speech – Dr. Mazur speaking to students in the Engaged Active Student Learning classroom
• Active Learning Classrooms @ the College of Biological Sciences
• A different class: how innovative design is revolutionising traditional classrooms

Teaching and Learning

Curriculum and teaching methods.

Readings/sites:

• Buck Institute for Education – Website of a large NGO on a mission to bring PBL to the world.
• A Review of Research on Project Based Learning – 46 pages long. Examines research related to “Project-Based Learning” (PBL).
• Big Picture Learning – 65 schools worldwide reimagining school. Learner centered. PBL and action oriented.
• PBL teacher community – a Google Community for teachers using project based learning.
• Developing Self Directed Learners – “ Low levels of self-direction shouldn’t be surprising—it is inherent in the traditional secondary school design.”
• How Teachers Can Make Competency-Based Education the New Normal – Efficiency vs proficiency in our classrooms.
• Innovation Academy – A Peruvian high school for grade 10 – 12 students utilizing collaborative project based learning schoolwide and achieving impressive results.

Videos

• BIE Videos – A playlist of PBL talks from the Buck Institute for Education
• Let’s Teach Mastery, Not Test Scores – Sal Khan, the creator of Khan Academy, speaks at TED about mastery based learning, and how technology makes it possible.
• Project Based Learning at High Tech High

Past FLoW21 Presentations

• Phased Curriculum Model: what a phased curriculum model could look like at WAB
• Spring 2018 Parent Update: • English • 中文