Online panel session: open schooling showcase

A showcase of Open Schooling projects and activity under the research project 'Make it Open' in which the UK Hub was run by Forth over 2022 to mid 2023. Daniel Charny director of UK Hub, curator and host of the event. This online event brought together participants and partners of the Make it Open UK Hub to reflect on the three year project in the context of Open Schooling and Open Learning. Part one was a live event with school pupils and their teachers sharing their science enquiries and hearing a talk from a Make it Open expert material scientist. It was part of the Great Science Share for Schools. Part two was an online panel discussion - presented in this video. The session focused on the benefits of Open Schooling and it‘s role in the future. It included contributions from Open Learning practitioners, industry representatives and school leadership as well as our team here at Forth. Speakers included: Rose Edmondson, Secondary schools Teacher of Science. Dr Anna Ploszajski, Material Scientist. Dr Malcolm Groves, Founder Director at Schools of Tomorrow. Dr Lynne Bianchi, Director of The Science & Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub at University of Manchester. Dee Halligan, Director at Forth. Curator of the event and Host: Professor Daniel Charny, Director at Forth Background: Make it Open is a programme for science education and community engagement with real world challenges. Involving the community, families and experts in projects is central to a Make it Open project. In this session, we discussed tips and tricks for getting the community and experts engaged and involved in Open Schooling, including example Lesson Scenarios where parents, the community and experts have played a key role. Open Schooling is an approach which takes on relevant local and global citizenship challenges; it can contribute to community development, and promote an active global citizenship attitude. Charny and Forth were invited into the consortium following the work and expertise developed on the Fixperts learning programme.