Breaker Project

http://www.projectbreaker.org/

Breaker Project is an effort to disrupt education by combining classroom + online learning with hands-on application to real world problems via enterprise. By Juliette, TED Senior Fellow

Performance Outcomes

• collaboration across networks
• a bias toward action and experimentation
• agility and adaptability
• critical thinking and problem solving
• assessing and analyzing information
• effective oral and written communication
• curiosity and imagination
• associative or integrative thinking
• empathy

• Rubrics for each indicator (including descriptions of emerging, developing, proficient, and advanced competency) in development. Also need exemplars for each - but that will take the first run to collect.

Breaker Model

• Education experience - 15 students
• $35k+ budget for 3 months
• More education than Quirky
• Nonprescriptive requirement
• Ex Scrum methodology
• Common
• University - does not have an infrastructure for Breaker
  • Only internship
  • Only lecture
  • Not affordable to build in-house model
  • Can do a diffuse model but needs a manager to contain it

Open the Model

• Juliette holds all IP
• To protect kids from patent infringement and
• 2-3 people get to do the project as startup