Magis Education Innovation Sandbox Program 2022-2023

Teams from Jesuit universities and schools are invited to participate by designing startup ventures for health education. High school and college teachers are invited to participate as EduImpact Lab Teaching Fellows and implement design thinking learning activities to actively guide student projects. Using the Bridging Leadership, Futures Thinking, Human Centered Design, and Lean Startup methodologies, student teams work on solving QC's problem sets as curricular or co-curricular projects.

This initiative aims to bring together DEPED/private school teachers and students, Sangguniang Kabataan Officers, universities, QC-based organizations, and other education advocates into a productive innovation ecosystem.

Main Objectives:

1. cultivate a thriving research and innovation culture among Jesuit schools and universities and equip them with thinking skills for the 21st Century

2. harness the problem-solving capacities of public school students through the Student Governments and Research Teachers

3. Co-create and prototype real-world solutions that address the public education opportunities and gaps

The Quezon City Education Impact Lab is a cross-disciplinary network of education advocates, experts, civil servants, educators, civil society organizations, and private sector actors who work in different parts of the education value chains.

Technology alone is not enough to transform the education sector, and too often, resources are indiscriminately thrown at problems without understanding what actually works. Furthermore, technology can't simply be transferred from developed countries to resource-limited settings, as solutions that work in one context, usually need to be adapted to be sustainable in another locale.

Using the Bridging Leadership framework, we engage multidisciplinary teams from universities and organizations and work together on the ground to develop technological, social, governance, and instructional innovations that can scale up to address the needs of at least 10 million learners.

Source: Adapted from the Sana program at MIT https://sana.mit.edu/about

Innovation Tracks

Reference:

Juan Miguel Luz (2022)

Sample Education Innovation Challenge