School redesign as a community project-based learning challenge
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
-Albert Einstein
If you’ve ever complained about the way things are in schools today, now’s your chance to stop talking and start acting by participating in the Reinventing School Challenge. The challenge is a program that begins with a simple mission: Encourage life-long learning, promote alternative learning environments and equip learners with 21st Century skills. It takes a fresh and different approach to school reform in the following ways.
- Inviting the whole community to get involved.
- Giving the community a framework to collaborate and fashion solutions for their own school communities.
- Providing a platform to present, share and celebrate what's possible and what really works.
The program uses design, collaboration, technology, play and social media to engage and empower young people to