Myself and the KIDmob team went back up to Indian Valley Academy in early September for a second round of hands-on Project Based design teaching. Seeing as my thesis research is very much leaning towards this kind of power redistribution it seems only fitting to include this visit as one of my four experiments.
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| The 7th graders all clubbed together and after a few practical exercises collaboratively diagramed the circulation routes, and connectivity of the arrangement of the furniture. |
Encouraging student ownership of tasks became a priority for learning communication strategies and developing team ethics.
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| cast model making meant finding a consensus between the group to conceive and execute one single model for the whole team |
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| three kids mix plaster together. |
An amazing time was had by kids and teachers alike, with some amazing work coming out of it. I now have a far more concrete sense of how the traditional power structure of back-to-basics teaching environments must be overhauled in favour of dynamic, two-way exchange, project based curricula.
