Bring Your Own Brain (BYOB): Storming Why, What and How We Learn

Purpose & objective

Based on UNESCO's call to reimage education across the globe. The purpose of the session is to promote debate and collaboration among educators.
Attendees will participate in a collaborative live document to capture their thought and ideas of what must go, stay and be reinvented in education.
The presenters hope that attendees will leave with practical ideas of what they can do to effect change in their teaching, classroom, school and district.

Attendees will learn about the Active Learning strategy and the World Cafe method.

They will explore literature published by UNESCO to reimagine learning and brainstorm ideas with fellow attendees to make lasting changes in their teaching and classrooms.

They will have the experience of collaborating on a live PowerPoint document.

Outline

Time Activity
0 min Welcome and Opening: Bring your own Brain – Storming Digital Age Ecosystems
Explanation of World Café Method & Collaborative PowerPoint [5 min]
5 min Presenters frame the context and pose the question –
-- What do we do now in education that should be continued? [6 min]
11 min Group Time - Breakout groups [6 min]
17 min Presenters frame the context and pose the question –
-- What do we do now in education that should be abandoned? [6 min]
23 min Group Time - Breakout groups [7 min]
30 min Presenters frame the context and pose the question –
-- What in education needs to be reinvented afresh? [6 min]
36 min Group Time - Breakout groups [7 min]
43 min Wrap up [2 min]
What will you do next?
45 END

Supporting research

World Cafe method - https://theworldcafe.com/
Active Learning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxVxgQJwV7w

UNESCO’s Futures of Education initiative aims to rethink education and shape the future. The initiative catalyses a global debate on how knowledge, education and learning need to be reimagined in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and precarity.
https://en.unesco.org/futuresofeducation/