Sadhbh Doherty

Children starting school in September 2015 will turn 18 in 2030. The Lesson Designers re-imagines the primary level education system, enlisting designers as middlemen between the Department for Education and schools. Lesson Design Teams create cross-curriculum projects that can incorporate the skills and capabilities our governments are predicting as necessary for the future. Working with a turnaround time of six months, Lesson Design Teams can give relevance to changes within the curriculum and keep the projects and technologies students are working with up to date.

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Blink is a product of the Lesson Design Team for Year 5, 2015. This cross curriculum project is based on communication, knowledge synthesis and governmental predictions that we will be working alongside artificial intelligence by 2030. Blink is a small electronic character that uses infrared to communicate. Each child in a class receives a Blink and over a term uses it across all subjects, as a tool to talk about the future of artificial intelligence and to find their own links between subjects.