Lab Notes – Habi Education Lab

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5 Kinds of People to Design the Futures of Education With

Last September 8-9, the Habi team attended the NOTED-hosted conference entitled “Reimagining Education and Leadership: Looking to the Future of Education Institutions." We thought... Read More

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Making Learning Happen During the Rainy Season

Ever wonder what goes on in your students’ heads when they hear of another typhoon coming our way? Aminin natin – hindi business as…

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FB Digital Tayo: School Self-Assessment (CARE dimensions)

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Tool Deep Dive: LX Blocks

How might we prototype learning experiences? This is something that we were constantly thinking about in 2018, when we started working with teachers to…

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Tool Deep Dive: Elesi Design Space

How can we start creating well-designed learning experiences? The Elesi Design Space is a worksheet that takes us through a five-phase LX Design process…

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Have any of you experienced transcribing a conversation, interview, or a meeting? If you’ve tried transcribing, you would know that it takes a lot of time and effort to complete. In this lab note, Habi Hour’s producer Celina explains why the effort is worth it.

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Baby Steps to Gender Inclusivity

In 2020, we worked on a project with Buri Technologies to design an online gender sensitivity and gender-fair language course for the Department of…

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Learning and Teaching with Social Media

Back in 2015, the Philippines was first dubbed the “social media capital of the world,” and we’ve held that title for about 6 years…

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Project-based Learning in a Pandemic

It’s been 2 years since I wrote my first lab note where I shared my personal journey of finding how PBL might work in…

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Online Facilitation Toolbox

These are some general guidelines that work for us but each facilitator eventually develops their own unique style of doing it. All it takes…

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Learning with the Community Pantry

The series of lockdowns have been hard on Filipinos, especially those who rely on their daily wages to put food on the table. Inspired…

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Helping Teachers Curate Online Resources

The internet is one of the greatest assets we utilize because of its limitless resources especially for teaching and learning. However, do our teachers find what they are looking for? Could they directly use these references for their classes? How helpful is the internet for them?

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Make Hope Real

As designers, we try to be constantly optimistic. We don't see problems, we see challenges. We view them as possibilities to build a better... Read More

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Making the shift

For a company whose bread and butter is in facilitating workshops and face-to-face sessions with schools and teachers, the pandemic hit us pretty hard….

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Technology and Culture Checklist for Schools

Thinking about adopting digital technology for your school? Or perhaps you have already been using technology for teaching and learning, and are thinking of…

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Two-way Learning

“When one teaches, two learn.” It is this dialogue, this two-way learning relationship, that also motivates us as teacher-educators. In our numerous Design Thinking workshops for teachers, not only do we teach, but we also learn. The discussions, activities, and worksheets are learning opportunities, not just for the participants, but for ourselves too.