Benguet Eduimpact Lab
Education Innovation Sandbox Program 2023-24
Education Innovation Sandbox Program 2023-24
To advance Benguet's ambition to have a future-ready talent pipeline, the EduImpact Lab is launching the Education Innovation Sandbox Program.
Teams from local schools, universities, and organizations are invited to participate by designing startup ventures to pitch to possible investors. High school and college teachers are invited to participate as EduImpact Lab Teaching Fellows and implement design thinking activities to actively guide student and SK projects. Using the Bridging Leadership, Futures Thinking, Human Centered Design, and Lean Startup methodologies, student teams work on solving Makati's problem sets as curricular or co-curricular projects.
This initiative aims to bring together DEPED/private school teachers and students, Sangguniang Kabataan Officers, universities, Cordillera-based organizations, and other education advocates into a productive innovation ecosystem.
Main Objectives:
1. cultivate a thriving research and innovation culture among high schools and universities and equip them with 21st century thinking skills
2. harness the problem-solving capacities of high school students through the Supreme Student Governments and research teachers
3. Co-create and prototype real-world solutions that address educational opportunities and gaps
The Education Impact Lab is a cross-disciplinary network of education advocates, experts, civil servants, educators, civil society organizations, and private sector actors who work in different parts of the education value chains.
Technology alone is not enough to transform the education sector, and too often, resources are indiscriminately thrown at problems without understanding what actually works. Furthermore, technology can't simply be transferred from developed countries to resource-limited settings, as solutions that work in one context, usually need to be adapted to be sustainable in another locale.
Using the Bridging Leadership framework, we engage multidisciplinary teams from universities and organizations and work together on the ground to develop technological, social, governance, and instructional innovations that can scale up to address the needs of at least 10 million learners.
Source: Adapted from the Sana program at MIT https://sana.mit.edu/about
When 30+% of children under 5 years of age are stunted (underweight, under height, malnourished), what needs to be done to develop them physically and mentally for formal schooling?
What does the system need to do to raise, improve the quality of teaching, teachers?
How to better prepare students for the world of work? How to deal with education mismatches in the labor market? What to do to help school dropouts?
Should government be putting more resources into private education at all levels?
What role should local governments (LGUs), local school boards, Parent-Teacher associations play in ensuring quality education?
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