Will we ever move beyond school grades and entry tests? We think so, and employers largely agree. It is time for the gatekeepers in between to accept that in this fast-changing world, something just ain't right with traditional credentialing.
Flipped Classroom, Design Thinking, Project-Based Learning… just a few of the most popular modern teaching methodologies that every school should employ as a core part of the learning experience and delivery. We’ve all heard these terms, but are they just ‘buzz words’ or a fad?
Learning is constellational; always expanding and in perpetual motion, but children can and should be supported to see that and embrace it. Collaboration ensures a network of support and shared purpose around the children who are at the centre of it all.
The idea that everything in our future can be perfectly predicted and measured is just not true, and hanging on to that illusion of control is one way in which mainstream thinking is letting us down badly.
In a learning environment like ours, or others who are transforming the system around the world right now, we can see why skateboarders have found somewhere that aligns with the way they interact and the way they learn.
The wall is often overlooked in discussions of a learning environment, perhaps because they are simply there, and we’ve forgotten what anything else might look like.
The chances are, that for most people reading this, your learning experience was pretty structured. The interesting question, however, is what that word, “structured” means to you.
As the Covid pandemic continues and many countries are still in an extended state of quarantine, the topic of mental wellbeing now becomes top of mind.
Sam Lardner, Director of Learnlife Barcelona, shares a heartfelt letter with our community that arises from the events of the last week in the United States
On March 10, we moved our learning online and into the homes of more than 60 learners and their families in Barcelona and beyond. This is a post about what’s happened since.
See our second set of [RE]LEARN pre-recorded interviews featuring education innovators, influencers and front-line game-changers Alfredo Hernando, David Price and Devin Carberry
Today, in honour of Sant Jordi, the Catalan tradition celebrating love, romance and friendship, we take a look at how Covid is changing relationships and romance.
Last month, a group from the Learnlife community visited Rwanda. Here, one of the participants shares her reflections from the experience one month on and what we can learn from the central African country in times of Covid...
Highlights from our [RE]LEARN global conversation held earlier this week and why a return to "normality" and old practices post-Covid would be a huge missed opportunity
As we conclude the second cycle of the 2019-2020 cohort, Learnlife Barcelona Director, Sam Lardner, takes a moment to reflect on the events of the past few weeks...
Feeling overwhelmed with Whatsapp updates on suggested activities? We've made a selection of some of the best ones to help you weed through the content overload.
Stuck at home this week? Visit some of the world's most important sites through impressive virtual tours and discover our newly created Learnlife Barcelona Virtual Tour
Last week on Tuesday, March 10th, Learnlife made the decision to shift from face-to-face learning to remote learning by moving all learning experiences online.
Georgi has a decade of experience in education — from kindergartens to universities. He has travelled the world and has been teaching in different cultures like Italy, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Germany and Spain.
Devin Carberry has been an educator for almost 20 years in a variety of educational settings — from after school to public policy and from classroom teaching to nonprofit leadership.