The entrepreneurial mindset thrives on networking, enhancing opportunities for success. Teachers and students gain recognition through collaboration and sharing experiences, exemplified by the NOVA Lab’s partnership with Ursinus College’s entrepreneurship program. An engaging visit allowed students to present projects and receive valuable feedback, emphasizing the importance of connections and experiential learning.
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Future Deja Vu
NOVA Lab students engaged in a 24-day project focused on futures thinking, inspired by PBS’s “A Brief History of Time.” They explored proactive community-building, envisioning achievable protopias instead of typical dystopian narratives. While reflecting on their participation, students expressed responsibility towards the future, recognizing the urgency for change amidst systemic failures. Their engagement aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting the need for visionary action.
Dialogues on What Matters–NOVA Lab and the Future of Education
When I first imagined what today is NOVA Lab, my vision was based on years of reading and collecting of research, both quantitative and qualitative, in the fields of Project and Design-Based Learning. (Here’s a document, recently updated but by no means complete that captures a good deal of that research.) When the class launchedContinue reading “Dialogues on What Matters–NOVA Lab and the Future of Education”
Do Good Things Newsletter: An Honest Day’s Work
Eric Hollenbeck is the real deal. A master craftsman in all aspects of life. Beyond the beauty of his work, beyond his wisdom, beyond his stories, there lies a truth about who we were, and who we must strive to be.
Do Good Things Newsletter: Baseball Genius–Coach Ballgame
Baseball, Genius, and the Joy of living in one’s element via James Lowe, Coach Ballgame
Measure Less, Learn More: Unrulr and The Celebration of Communities of Learning
How giving students the power to document learning in the moment leads to more authentic, deeper learning.
A Day in the Life of a BPhl Innovation Festival Attendee
This was a long week, but I wish it were longer. And that is due to the B.Phl Innovation festival. Centered at the Independence Blue Cross (IBX) building (1901 Market), with Ground Zero being the IBX Innovation Center on the 13th and 14th floors. However, the festival spread out around the city, from the UniversityContinue reading “A Day in the Life of a BPhl Innovation Festival Attendee”
Philadelphia’s B.Phl Innovation Festival
A few weeks ago one of the students in NOVA Lab informed me of an innovation festival being hosted in Philadelphia. After checking it out on the web, I was convinced this would be a place for our students to learn why innovation and design thinking were so important to the economy they’d soon beContinue reading “Philadelphia’s B.Phl Innovation Festival”
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