Research: IDEO

Google Coding Tool for Kids

• It can help unlock kids’ imagination by inspiring them to build new things and interact with everyday objects through discovery and play.
• This establishes a new paradigm for learning computer science: it takes a language typically only understood through screens and keyboards, and makes it tangible.
• Because play and physical building is an important way in which many kids develop skills.
• Beyond a tangible coding kit, what makes Bloks unique is that it’s an open platform. Educators, developers, and designers can build on it to accelerate new ways of teaching and exploring tangible programming.
• From Friedrich Froebel, Maria Montessori, Jean Piaget’s pioneering work in the area of learning by experience, exploration, and manipulation to the research started in the 70s by Seymour Papert and Radia Perlman with Robot Logo, TORTIS, and everything in between.

Student Centred Cafeteria Experience

• Together, they developed recommendations for three age-appropriate dining experiences, from communal eating to student-designed spaces to new technology platforms, and worked to develop a robust business model.

Design for Change

• Kiran Bir Sethi is the Founder/Director of The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India. She is also the founder of 'aProCh' —an initiative to make our cities more child friendly, for which she was awarded the Ashoka Fellow in 2008. In 2009, she received the "Call to Conscience Award" by the King Centre at Stanford.In 2009, she founded 'Design for Change' (DFC) - the world's largest movement of change - of and by children. DFC is now in 60+ countries—impacting over 2.2 million children and 65,000 Teachers.

School Retool

Deeper Learning prepares students for success in college and careers, as well as civic and everyday life. It gives them real-world skills through meaningful experiences. It builds their ability to transfer what they’ve learned from one context to another.

Kids need to know that they matter. Especially kids who are coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. At its core, Deeper Learning is about making sure the students are at the center of the learning experience.