Student Action Labs
Student Action Labs (SALs) are single class period labs led by Program Associates in partnership with World Savvy Classrooms teachers. We offer 1 day of SALs to teachers enrolled in the World Savvy Classrooms program. SALs are designed as a way to provide support to our teachers and introduce World Savvy and the Knowledge to Action (K2A) process to students in an engaging way.
The SALs have evolved in their offerings over the past two years, from 2 choices to 5. Teachers with different levels of experience with World Savvy often utilize different SALs and we have expanded the offerings to greater support and extend returning teachers’ implementation. Each lab is designed to fit into a particular stage of the K2A experience. The workshops build off in-class work, so they should be scheduled for the appropriate time during the project as indicated in each workshop description.
We currently offer 5 different SALs. Each teacher enrolled in World Savvy Classrooms can schedule 1 day of SALs for their classes.
Sign up for one of the workshops below:
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| Knowledge to Action | Students will engage in a series of activities, games, and reflections in order to explore World Savvy’s approach to design thinking and project based learning. | This workshop should happen at the very start of the Knowledge 2 Action process. It is an intro to get students thinking about their K2A projects and issue areas that interest them. |
| Building Empathy | Students will explore the concept of empathy by engaging in a rapid design process with a partner. | This workshop is designed as an intro to the concept and practice of empathizing. It can fit in at any stage of the background research/case study or empathize steps of the Knowledge to Action process. Ideally, this workshop will happen before students are too far in any fieldwork or stakeholder interviews. |
| Interviewing | Students will explore the role of field work interviews in their research, prepare interview questions for their stakeholders, and examine the role of power in interviewing. | This workshop is great for classes that plan to engage in some type of interview based field research as part of the empathize stage of the K2A process. This workshop should happen early in the empathize stage as students are planning for their interviews. |
| Prototyping | Students will work in their teams to go through a rapid prototyping process with one of their brainstormed ideas for their K2A solution. | This workshop is designed for students to be able to create a usable prototype for one of their brainstormed ideas/solutions. This workshop should happen after idea brainstorming has been done, but before prototyping/testing is complete. |
| Taking Action | Students will work in their K2A teams to build action plans for their K2A projects. This workshop focuses on situating student projects in authentic applications. | This workshop is designed for students to create action plans for their K2A projects. This workshop should be held during the end of the K2A process to help provide ‘next steps’ planning support to student teams. |