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We design learning experiences to turn boring classrooms into labs for discovery. Our goal is to teach students the important skills of STEAM - science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics - through interdisciplinary challenges. For example, students might build a musical instrument that incorporates elements of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. We assess students not through exams or grades but by the projects they make. We teach skills like thinking, making, playing, and improving to train students to invent the future.
Let's Learn
- 2. What do we do?
- 3. We design learning experiences
- 5. Into labs for discovery
- 6. We want our students to gain one key insight...
- 7. The world is malleable And they can reshape it Provided they gain the right skills
- 8. But what are the right skills?
- 9. We think there are 3 important skills
- 10. Let's talk about STEAM
- 11. Good grades used to be the ticket to success... ...but the 21st Century demands innovation
- 12. Innovation is rearranging and connecting dots across disciplines...
- 13. That is why we don't teach Just Science Just Computing Just Art Just Mathematics
- 14. Instead we encourage interdisciplinary thinking
- 15. We create challenges that run on STEAM
- 16. Here's one challenge we give our students: Build a musical instrument
- 17. That takes STEAM
- 18. Science - vibration, resonance, amplitude, frequency Technology - frequency measuring apps, cutting tools Engineering - choose the right material, precision in cutting Arts - music theory, notes, performance Mathematics - calculate frequency-wavelength relations
- 19. Let's talk about Making
- 20. Knowledge is power only when you know how to use it
- 21. A simple crowbar turns the abstraction of geometry into a usable simple machine.
- 22. But how do you assess if somebody is learning how to use knowledge?
- 23. We don't have exams. We don't issue grades.
- 24. We assess our students through the projects they make.
- 25. How do you prepare students for jobs that don't yet exist? To use technology that does not yet exist? For a future that does not yet exist?
- 26. We give them the skills to invent the future
- 27. ...and that means training them in
- 28. which includes
- 29. Our classes teach TMPI THINK MAKE PLAY IMPROVE
- 30. A thinking process that lets you create something from nothing
- 31. So… • We promote INNOVATION CREATIVITY IMAGINATION among the junior students
- 32. Let’s Learn. Let’s not just read……
- 33. Thank You