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2023 HILT Conference
2023 Conference “Teaching in the Age of AI: Nurturing Connections and Empowering Learners” In-person event at Harvard Business School Friday, September 22, 2023 Register here by Thursday, September 21 at 5:00pm ET. This year’s HILT Conference comes at a pivotal time when artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly discussed and experimented with in higher education. […]
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Team-based learning in a foundational course
Carrie Conaway, Senior Lecturer, and James Kim, Professor of Education, teach the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s new foundational course, Evidence. The course trains students to understand and apply a variety of evidence to a real-life problem of practice. In order to learn about different types of evidence and how to apply it to solve real-world problems, students work in small teams using team-based learning (TBL). Conaway and Kim use survey data to construct teams that are diverse in terms of background, program, and comfort with different types of evidence. Each group activity is centered around a different component of a case developed from Kim’s research. The activities culminate in final recommendations for how to improve literacy outcomes for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina. -
Learning from and giving back to the community through the classroom
Deborah Jewell-Sherman, Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Practice in Educational Leadership, helps students develop leadership skills and a deeper understanding of the work involved in being a systems-level leader. In her two-term course, The Workplace Lab for System-Level Leaders (WPL), students actively collaborate with school districts across the nation, including the local Cambridge, Lincoln and Boston public schools. Jewell-Sherman intentionally scaffolds the course from personal introspection to undertaking significant problems of practice for sitting superintendents and CEO’s of educational entities. Before students are assigned to teams that maximize diversity in leadership and communication styles, they deeply reflect to identify their core values. “In terms of practice,” she notes, “it’s important to know who you are and for what you stand.” Groups collaborate on simulations and analyze case studies based on real-world problems while leveraging recent research. Later, students work directly with community partners and present recommendations in a “New Haven” run before hosting an on-campus final “Broadway” run to a full audience. In January, Jewell-Sherman typically takes students on a four-day trip to a school district or educational entity in another state to collaborate on new projects. -
Science Bytes
Science Bytes Awardees: Ragini Lall (HGSE) and Aditi Kumar (MIT-Engineering) Summary: coming soon.
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Open Minds
Our solution is to create open education resources (OER) so that all teachers have access to free, K-12 TEKs-aligned curricula designed through research-based culturally, community responsive and anti-bias frameworks. -
Innovate for Africa
Innovate for Africa (IFA) is a nonprofit organization that provides graduating STEAM students in Nigeria 1-month training on entrepreneurial and labour-demanded skills as well as support throughout a subsequent 11-month placement at an innovation driven start-up. -
InCompass.ed
InCompass.ed offers transformational leadership programs for young people to develop authentic purpose. -
Zhorai: A Conversational Agent and Curriculum for Teaching Machine Learning
Our project aims to explore the potential of conversational agents as a tool for learning and engagement in K-12 AI education and programming. -
The Infinity Project
The Infinity Project Awardees: Natasha Japanwala (HGSE), Abdullah Ali Khan (HGSE), Zeerak Ahmed (External), and Natasha Sakraney (External) Summary: coming soon.
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The Lab
The Lab seeks to develop a six-week summer program that is designed to create access and address the significant challenges which exacerbate the education achievement and opportunity gaps between high income and low-income students. -
StoryPlay
StoryPlay is a fun storytelling game that promotes children’s oral development, creativity and imagination and makes oral development skills practice accessible to students both in formal pre-primary education and in informal settings. -
Sikaun Learning Center (SLC)
SLC is a community-based learning center in Nepal that provides opportunities to engage in learning outside of school by providing learning resources and project-based learning experiences. -
Resilient
Resilient is a project that will restore wellness, love and dignity to black boys and young men by creating an online, culturally affirming community of black males who share videos of life advice, stories and encouragement. -
Living Labs
Living Labs Awardees: Chloe Zelkha (HGSE), Viria Vichit-Vadakan (HBS), Michelle Foley (HGSE), and Aleiya Evison (GSD) Summary: coming soon.
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IntraPaths
IntraPaths Awardees: Serene Yu (HGSE), Liana Bishop (HGSE), and Felipe Estrada-Prada (HGSE) Summary: coming soon.
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Food Futures
Food Futures is a game-based food and sustainability curriculum for high school students. -
Syllabus Explorer
Harvard Syllabus Explorer is a web application developed by the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning - Research Group. Syllabus Explorer combines registrarial data and syllabi from Canvas to give users the ability to search for and download syllabi across Harvard. -
Villages
Villages is a web platform that connects multiple stakeholders around a student, forming an online village dedicated to supporting the student’s success. -
Third Room Labs
Third Room Labs investigates distance learning technology and training to connect teachers to kids in geographically isolated communities. -
Teaching for Tomorrow
Teaching for Tomorrow aims to find a scalable solution on how we can support teachers in Pakistan in teaching 21st century skills in the classroom
