Michaelhouse-Impact Report-2023 (for Jan-Dec 2022)

Recently Completed: Makan Centre

The teaching approach required to facilitate the best of such a curriculum within the Makan Centre is student centric, process focused and transdisciplinary. As well as the Makan Centre being the home for the Future fit curriculum, it will also serve as a bustling academic hub for boys and staff alike. The flexible meeting rooms for sharing and collaboration, the high-tech video conferencing lecture theatre/cinema, the connection to the resources and research process of the Media Centre, the exploration of our film and sound studio and a place of action for our coding and robotics club will all contribute to a space that informs and discovers the very future of education. The Makan Centre was opened on 17 th March 2023 by the Makan Family.

The need for education to be deliberately adapted and redesigned for the 21 st century and beyond is paramount. The Makan Centre’s purpose is to provide the physical space that facilitates an education and innovation for a future that is hyperconnected, uncertain and unpredictable. It is situated in the heart of the school, with its modern design - dovetailing into the familiar interconnected red-brick buildings - is based on natural light, flexibility, sustainability and innovation will be the focal point of future-fit teaching, learning, play and discovery. The Future-fit curriculum , which is a transdisciplinary, project based learning programme will be complemented by the learning spaces and technology available in the Makan Centre. In this curriculum boys will learn about real-world issues and contexts such as inequality, food and water insecurity, climate change and sustainable economic growth. Through social action, entrepreneurship and creativity, boys will have to collaborate and design ideas and solutions to solving some of the most pressing issues that their generation and the generations to follow are likely to face. These ideas and solutions will require skills of the 4 th industrial revolution which sees the blurring of boundaries between physical and cyber systems. Future-Fit Curriculum These are just some of the skills that the Makan Centre, through work like the Future-fit curriculum, will embed: • Systems and complexity thinking

• Design thinking • Critical thinking • Complex problem-solving • Creativity (e.g. Content and Media Creation) • Collaboration • Working with diversity • Robotics • Coding • Working with AI • Rapid Prototyping (incl 3D Printing)

Watch the Rector, Divesh & Paresh talk about their hopes for the Makan Centre

• Research • Reflexivity

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