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
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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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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Why We Make Transcripts
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
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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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.
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An nCov-enient Truth
With the recent spike in confirmed cases in the Philippines and the slew of school suspensions, we are just now trying to figure out how to deal with COVID-19. Social distancing remains to be the best way to combat the spread of the virus, so suspending school seems to be the sensible option, but its not the kind of disease that should compromise our learner’s growth and development. So how might we still continue delivering and ensuring that learning happens for our students?
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Making Sense of Project-Based Learning in Higher Education
Hi, I’m Celina! Some of you might know me as a Habi Learning Experience Designer (LXD), but I also spend my days in the…
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Design Thinking for Nutrition Month
It’s been a few (!) years since I was in elementary school but one of my clearest memories from my early days as a…
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Go! STEMpowered Girls (part 3 of 3)
Note: STEMpower Our Girls is an experiential scientific literacy program designed for young girls to increase their aptitude and attitude towards science and math….
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Get set! STEMpowered Workshop (part 2 of 3)
Note: STEMpower Our Girls is an experiential scientific literacy program designed for young girls to increase their aptitude and attitude towards science and math….
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Ready! STEMpowered Design (part 1 of 3)
STEMpower Our Girls is an experiential scientific literacy program designed for young girls to increase their aptitude and attitude towards science and math. It…
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Tahan-tahanan Toys
Tahan-tahanan is a halfway house for indigent young patients with chronic illnesses. They needed our help to think of new programs for the parents and patients, more meaningful than the typical outreach programs they hold. We wanted to dig deeper, and empathize with the parents and patients, to facilitate interactions that served their needs.
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Designing Habi's Design Principles
After a busy year of everything from “one time” design thinking workshops and larger, long-term collaborations, we spent some time last December designing our internal systems for a change.
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PRISM Teacher Feature: Jennifer Yadao
For Teacher Jenny, PRISM was not only an opportunity to improve her digital literacy, it was also an opportunity to address an issue she felt was very relevant to her profession – the lack of professional etiquette on social media platforms
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Design Thinking for Your Daily Life
Design thinking is a fluency–it’s something that you have to intentionally use in your daily life until empathy, collaboration, prototyping, and improving with feedback becomes second nature.
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