Footnotes – Project Rooms

Footnotes Project Rooms can function as stand-alone environments or in tandem with traditional class-based systems. By applying FootnotesVMT Grid-ing techniques, effective personalised learning routines enable learners of all ages and abilities to move at their own pace without losing connection to a common teaching pathway.

 “All kinds of learners can engage their preferred learning styles in a new and fresh way, whilst sharing more of their learning experience with their peers.” 

• Attend an introduction to Project Room session ( Includes Footnotes Grid Module training ) 

Students are invited to apply to join a “Project Room” Timetable.

Project room readiness & requirements : 

• Show an understanding of how Project Rooms work  + How Footnotes Grids facilitate personalised learning journeys.  

• Before arriving at the Project Room, students would have ideally started their project with  the use of supporting Grids. That way they can join a session with either their own set of targets or at least an understanding of how Project Rooms work. ( In main stream scenarios students might have been briefed or have used “home work” time to make a start)

• Project Rooms motivate and equip students to further their projects in their own time. ( Provides a much more comfortable equivalent to set “Home work” ) 

• If for any reason students are not engaging comfortably with a Project Room session, they can either return to a mainstream learning setting or for example attend a different Project Room session – Topics include : Top Up Footnotes Grid-ing techniques, Personal Management, Careers & Aspirations support. 

Specialist support is available from teachers, lecturers, technicians and also guests, to help students engage and accelerate their project progress. Support might include:  

• Teacher/Lecturer presentations 
• Teacher/Lecturer Q&A support
• Visiting speaker presentations   ( including online webinars ) 
• Technician delivered Pre recorded video presentations & webinars 
• Peer to peer &  parent lead activities 

Free Flow – Check in and check out provision. Support might include:

• Technician support eg: IT and AI related help including researching skills
• Librarian support – If a Project Room environment is near or in a library
• Peer to peer &  parent sharing 
• shared Quiet Space sessions
• Vlog, Podcast, dictation recording support 
• Footnotes International Project Room –  scheduled meet up video calls 
• Study skills labs – experimenting and establishing personal methods and routines. 
• limited access challenges – eg: behavioural change programs – value & participation cues 
• Timetabled To > Drop In 

Due to the nature of Footnotes Grid-ing techniques, students of a broader age range and ability can usefully learn together.  

• Information can be delivered to Grid-ers with a multi-level focus during the same Project Room session.
• Teaching resources such as film, interactive boards and IT suites can help students to glean on an individual basis whilst feeling the motivation of Grid-ing together. 
• Specialists and potential future employers can effectively present and Q & A to high level learners in the same space and time frame as those just starting out in the new topic. 
• Interaction between students at different stages can help to consolidate and bring greater to relevance to the subject overall. 
• The process of learning from one another is heightened so that the lead professional is more likely facilitating rather than having to be the only source of all influence. 
• Live demonstrations, experiments and even site visits can be more possible due the students being used to a more varied timetable, (inc learning intensive events) A greater age and ability range = More in-depth live project potential. 
• These shared Grid-ing experiences help to broaden the “take away “ potential, as each individual Grid-er are more likely to bring their own unique contribution to the session. Facilitators also benefit, as they can be usefully informed re prepping for the next session. 

Personal or Shared

• Small group to amphitheatre style engagement 
•  Multi one to one to large lecture delivery
• Small rooms to large outdoor open spaces

Just Start!

• From One to One to > Small Group to  > Community Embedded
•  Session Based ( In Parallel ) OR > Partially Integrated (self elected) Or > Extra Curricular Or > Fresh ( Scheduled) 

Project Rooms enable students to set their own pace of readiness. For example: in preparation for exams. Students can : 

• Accelerate their completion of course materials – In some cases meaning that a student can be ready to sit an exam one or more years ahead of mainstream students of a similar age 
• Revision based Project Room schedules, enable students to revise together. 
• Students can be more easily prepared for other forms of assessments, Eg: Oral based exams and interviews through to Visual – video/website essay equivalents.  
• Learn to Apprenticeship Programs & Sponsorships

Neuroplasticity and beyond!

• Making space ( literally) for learning about self and others.
• Focus can shift easily between Identity, Restorative Practice , Future Scaping & Learning. 
• Intergenerational collaboration grows wisdom & respect
• Focus & Flow, Learning Rigour & Time Management 
• Flexitime Grid-ing – Bespoke Session Duration & Timetabling
• Return & recalibrate – Revisit projects & update or Fresh start themes (life long membership)

Redesigning how we use space! 

• Varied seating, lighting, soundproofing, Tec, in & outside
•  Location specific – community, recreation, healthcare, industry, land management & resources 
• Mobile facilities – for field trips & access promotion 
• In Nature Emersives

Making the best of assessment :

• Continuous Assessment ( Reducing the need to for exams)
• Self Assessment (encouraging personal project based learning )
• Group and Peer to Peer Assessment ( Creating markers for good practice whilst sharing ways of evaluating) 
• Students can be more easily prepared for other forms of assessments, Eg: Oral based exams and interviews through to Visual – video/website essay equivalents.  

Tailored Tec – For Each Individual Grid-er

• Footnotes APP
• Digital Grid Sharing
• Ai Enhanced Dictation To Text
• Sound Enhancing & Canceling Tec
• Multi task & Viewing Tec
• Translation Tools

Worldwide Community 

• Forging new forms of “learning” Eg: Shared Primary school & Undergraduate ventures  
• Student Live projects & Commerce 
• Multicultural consultations – “ How the others live and learn” 
• Establishing Fresh Policy & Curriculums in real time 
• Student teachers and school aged students learning together 
• Children and Parents learning together 

Learning together – celebrating unique learning needs 

• Students used to one to one support can become more self guided. 
• Health sensitive – Dip in and out provision. Making it possible to make a start & pace it! 
• Homeschoolers coming together. Safe to be as you are . Not led, rather facilitated 
• Behaviour related fresh start programs 

Steering the ship – Incremental & reboot empowerment

• Valuing The Team
• Sharing the responsibility 
• Making the most of expertise 
• Shared  excelence marketing 
• In Service re training 
• Colleague swap initiatives – Give and receive  
• Retire ? As much as you want to – keeping the wise ones in community 

For the people by the people 

• Community listening spaces 
• Making decisions – vote it systems 
• Community care and motivation 

Inovative Spaces 

• Small Scale To > Open Plan
• Adapted To > Purpose Built ( Eg: Existing IT Suite Or Library)
• Project Rooms Learning Labs In The Workplace
• Natural Environments
• Interactive Technology Pods

New subjects for new situations 

• Traditional “Western Education “
• .Discovering Identity 
• Preparing for AI 
• Conversational skills 
• Etc etc ……….

Personalised Learning Together!

• Self Initiated Learning – Personalised Work Flow Routines
• Integrated Self & Collective Assessment
• Personal Focus State Management – Fast vs Exstended
• Trust & Accountability Culture – Its a choice!
• Scalable learning targets – Student instigated
• Age Is Not A Benchmark – Ability before age measures
• Circular Thinking – Live projects – Continuous Easy Step In Step Out
• Ownership & Shared Visions
• Grows Expectancy – No Limits Thinking
• Grid Anywhere – Environments 
• Embracing Assistive Tec – Eg: Grid to > Ai – Dictation, Search & Compile
• Cost effective – Paper & Pencil Gets Things Underway
• Broad Cultural Relevance – Non specific
• Multilingual Access
• Never Too Young, Never Too Old
• Brings Learning Into the Market Place
• Maximising Learning Styles – Hyper Focused State etc