Design Your Ecosystem of Learning (Newport)

Learning lives everywhere – at recreation centers. Parks, public libraries, museums, office Buildings, colleges, community gardens, theaters, churches, homes, and in backyards. But, today’s education system assumes meaningful learning only happens at a place called school.

Imagining what could be is the first step to realizing this new future. Delve into a world where learning truly lives everywhere in the community is the playground for the learning.

After watching, Education Reimagined, The Big Idea, a short video, we will engage participants in a hands-on workshop to what you might imagine for our communities.

Participants, with supplies provided, will draw, build, design, imagine the most powerful places of learning in their lives. These artifacts will then become part of created ecosystem. Following the making we will have a facilitated conversation with the FabNewport team that will document:

Why were these powerful places for learning?

We will ask questions about our present communities and think about the obstacles and opportunities that might support or prevent us from creating an equitable, learner-centered ecosystem in Rhode Island.

FabNewport, with the support of the van Beuren Charitable Foundation, the Rhode Island Foundation, Prince Charitable Trusts, Powered by Prince, Newport Public Schools, the Met School, and many others, has been slowly building the ecosystem. We need your help to liberate our youth from the tyranny of being measured and sorted by their test scores. Our team is committed to all youth having the confidence to live into a Positive Future Vision grounded in community and the reality of their identity and emerging competencies.