Sessions included topics such as conflict resolution, disrupting classrooms, engaging youth with work, and rethinking politics.
How and in what ways can the classroom engage pressing social and cultural issues?
Lucas has also taken a leadership role in applying his technical and storytelling expertise to the classroom, engaging students through interactive multimedia environments.
She's written two books, Reinventing Writing and Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds.
BrainU classrooms were engaged in developing (9%) or testing (4%) hypotheses, designing experiments (9%), or collecting (42%) and analyzing and interpreting (7%) data in contrast to comparison classrooms, which only collected data (16.7%).
Under the theme, "I defend life, learning about AIDS", a nationwide sensitization campaign on HIV/AIDS included educational activities in secondary school classrooms and engaged boys and girls in learning through reading, writing, reflection and playing drama.
"I feel like almost every kid in my classroom is engaged in a novel that they're actually interacting with," Ms. McNeill said, several months into her experiment.
"If we get people out of the classroom and engaged, it's much more fun, and people discover this much more quickly," said Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, the Levy Research Professor at Bard College, former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), and co-editor of the book "What Is College For?" with Harvard's Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science.
The development of Co-Measure was also, in part, to address a need identified by classroom teachers engaged in a prior multi-year study exploring STEAM instructional practices (Quigley and Herro 2016).
Neither measure tells us anything about how well students are learning in the classroom and engaging beyond the classroom.
