13 of the most innovative schools in the world

Innovation in education can look different. For example, it can be the introduction of high technologies in teaching activities, educational trips to nature, the rejection of social norms, work in cooperation with the local community and so on. It can be a floating school in a water area. Or it could be a school that does not pay attention to the floor. From this article you will learn how the future of education can look.

The Makoko Floating School (Lagos, Nigeria). School that swims

In the water area of Makoko, there is an educational institution for all ages that serves not only as a communal learning space, but also as an example of a project for the further development of the coastal regions of Africa. This school has a triangular shape and consists of three floors. It is built in such a way that it can not suffer from a sharp rise in the water level in the lagoon. The total area of the school is 92 square meters, and here you can find amenities such as a playground, composting toilets and classes, which can accommodate up to 100 people at the same time.

Gymnasium Ørestad (Copenhagen, Denmark). School in the cube

This gymnasium is one huge audience where 358 high school students study in a huge glass cube, which allows them to move away from the traditional view of the learning process. Offering pupils the opportunity to engage in an open space, the school's creators hope that this will help them to think more flexibly in the future.

School Big Picture Learning (Providence, Rhode Island). School in a real world

This institution breaks the familiar walls between learning and the real world, in which people need to work. From the very beginning, local students learn that their creative hobbies will be considered and developed in the first place. To help students develop their personal skills, they are sent to mentors who work in the field in which the student himself would someday like to work.

Junior School Egalia (Stockholm, Sweden). School without the concept of sex

The education system in this institution is based on complete equality between pupils. This system consists of two educational institutions, Egalia and Nicolaigården, each of which refused to use gender-based pronouns, in the hope that this will teach children to view peers as absolutely equal to themselves.

AltSchool (San Francisco, CA). School in Silicon Valley

This school completely deviated from the traditional style of education, abandoning the familiar model based on testing knowledge, in favor of a model that allows children to develop technological skills and flexibility of thinking, through which they can adapt in an ever-changing modern world.

Professional school Sra Pou (Srao-Pou, Cambodia). School for those who built it

This educational institution for people of all ages, designed by a Finnish architectural company in Cambodia, was built by community members for their colleagues so that they could learn how to turn their hobbies into a full-fledged business. A local non-governmental organization provides school teachers who help students on their way to success.

P-TECH High School (Brooklyn, New York). School, which combines high school and college

This educational institution was opened in 2011 by IBM to offer students from New York a way to go to college without spending four years on high school. Instead, the students of this school spend six years here. The fifth and sixth year are under the supervision of professional mentors, at which time students undergo internships in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, after which they receive the degree of assistant assistant from the New York Technical College collaborating with the project. Many of them continue their studies to obtain a bachelor's degree.

School of Steve Jobs (Amsterdam, Netherlands). School in which people think otherwise

As can be understood from the subtitle, this institution completely denies the traditional education system. Instead of dragging children through the same curriculum over and over again, they are allowed to work and develop at their own pace. It can be seen on the main photo of the article.

Brightworks School (San Francisco, California). A school that teaches dangerously

This school was opened in 2011 by Jever Tally, and here the training is based on the most terrible things parents always forbid their children to do. Children under the supervision of specialists get dirty, play with fire, disassemble household appliances and create creative projects, all within one day.

School Carpe Diem (Aiken, Ohio). School built as an office

This school looks more like an office building, and not as an educational institution. In the main room, known as the Learning Center, there are three hundred office cells, one for each student. In each of these cells there is a computer with which the student passes his own training course.

School Innova (Peru). A school created by world-famous designers

This educational institution was Peru's answer to the complete stagnation of standardized education in the country. Several areas of study are combined here: high-tech online training, classes with guides, group classes and so on. And the training here takes place in an environment that was conceived as modular and adaptable to the terrain.

School Blue (New York, USA). School, which mixes empathy and creativity

Creativity is the main aspect of this school, which was founded in 2006 as a public kindergarten by the Blue Man Group. Representatives of the company understood how imperfect the education system is, so they decided to put the natural interest and curiosity of children at the center of the corner.

School Samaschool (San Francisco, California). School, which believes that it is never too late to learn

People find it difficult to find a job for which there would not be dozens of candidates, especially when it comes to people in low-income areas. But it is such people who are invited to this educational institution, in which adults are offered to take a course focused on high-tech and entrepreneurial skills to give them what will be required of them in the current labor market.