Register a team for the Reinventing School Challenge

The Reinventing School Challenge is a project that uses design, collaboration, technology, play and social media to engage and empower young people to effect positive change in their school community.

We invite students, teachers, parents, subject matter experts all to to collaborate. Form or join a team and research, ideate, design, remix and prototype new possibilities and reinvent the school experience.

There is a renewed focus globally on the 3 R’s – reading, writing, and arithmetic, however if our young people are to fully participate in today’s global community, students must also master the 4 C’s – creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. See the definitions on the P21 4 C’s here.

The Reinventing School Challenge enables students to explore all 4 C’s while learning by doing.

I'm sure your school and community has a wealth of talent, experience and resources that can be applied to a social innovation challenge like this so please do get involved and shine!

Learning happens everywhere

We’re passionate about life-long learning, we want to promote alternative learning environments and want you to also think beyond the classroom when coming up with ideas. How do you learn outside of the classroom? What technologies do you use? Where and when do you learn best?

In his best selling book Drive, Dan Pink talks of the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose. The challenge is designed to give you all of the key elements needed to drive you to success.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUrMT7uK3qc&list=PLB3736D070869E8DC

Flexibility

You have flexibility over the way in which you participate in the Reinventing School Challenge. This P2PU course is a guide and contains the framework and links to resources to help you and your students/team deliver some great ideas on how to reinvent the school experience.

The challenge need not take up a great deal of time if you are time poor. The key is to inspire, start a dialogue, collaborate and impart new skills during the experience.