TECHNOLOGY SUMMER SCHOOL FOR YOUTH – BRITISH COUNCIL

Designed and facilitated a dynamic experiential learning two-week program for youth 13-19Y, in collaboration with the British Council, Athens.

Youth participants worked in small groups and faced a wide variety of challenges, DIY projects and learning games.

They explored a trail of learning experiences, which triggers creative ways of thinking in problem solving and decision making; which trains critical thinking as well as effective communication and collaboration; which cultivates the capacity to utilize their knowledge, competencies and talents as versatile tools adaptable to different environments and innovative applications.

We encouraged the youth participants:

to learn how to utilize their 

to learn by exploring, tinkering, making and sharing

to approach tech tools with an inquisitive mind

to improvise and experiment iteratively

to think and act as technology makers and co-creators, not just consumers and beta-testers

to drive their own learning based on their interests

to ask interesting questions

to analyze, decompose systems

to redesign their own systems and user interfaces

to combine tools, ways of thinking and methodologies across disciplines in unconventional ways

to collaborate and communicate effectively

to create installations connecting the digital and physical world with practical tools

to perceive games as systems of shared rules for all players

to design games

to tinker with systems' rules and structural components

to build prototypes to evaluate ideas, test and iteratively improve them

to develop creative confidence

to innovate, by applying their creativity and imagination.