"WE DON'T JUST TEACH OLD SCHOOL."
Our second Lost & Found Fridays — held on 03 July — was a special Ignatian episode in celebration of the Ateneo 2020 IGNATIAN FESTIVAL: Like the first one, this one was also virtual, and it was also designed to gather our community on our brand new AteneoBlueCloud campus–not for us to talk shop or to discuss business matters, but “to take a deep breath, to take a step back, and to take in the wider view.”
We’ve been busy.
Last 25 May 2020, the Ateneo SALT Institute launched a professional certificate course on Adaptive Design for Learning for the faculty and formation professionals of the Loyola Schools of the Ateneo de Manila University.
The very first–and virtual—LOST + FOUND FRIDAY was held last 05 June 2020 live on AteneoBlueCloud. Originally conceived as an in-person gathering for prayer and reflection, this first L+FF event–first scheduled last 13 March 2020–was canceled due to the Extended Community Quarantine.
On February 3rd to 6th, 2020, over 30 educators from nine European countries attended a four-day Conference on “Learning by Refraction,” a 21st-century approach to Ignatian Pedagogy proposed in a book of the same title by Fr. Johnny Go SJ and Ms. Rita Atienza of the Ateneo SALT Institute.
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Just recently launched was the Virtual Colloquium for Jesuit schools around the world. The Virtual Colloquium is the prelude to the international gathering of school heads and leaders that will take place in Jogjakarta, Indonesia from June 29 to July 4, 2020.
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Six years ago, when Ateneo SALT Institute Director, Fr. Johnny Go SJ, was at the Catholic Educational Council of Thailand Conference to give a talk, Fr. Agustinus Pitoyo SJ, the Jesuit Regional Superior of Thailand, spoke of a dream to build a Jesuit school for the people of the hill tribes in the Golden Triangle of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar.
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Last October 29 to 30, 2019, a multidisciplinary group of educators from the Loyola Schools stole away from the Ateneo de Manila campus to gather at the Eugenio Lopez Center in Antipolo. Their task? To talk about a twenty-year old Ateneo dream: a possible Ateneo de Manila Institute or School of Education.
Last October 20, nearly 60 administrators and master teachers from Jesuit schools all over the country congregated at the Mirador Jesuit Villa for the first JBEC IPP Trainers’ Training Workshop based on LEARNING BY REFRACTION.
In celebration of World Teachers’ Day, the Ateneo SALT Institute, in cooperation with the Teachers’ Formation Institute (TFI), TALAB, and the Ateneo CELADON, held TEACHING NEW: INNOVATION ROOTED IN TRADITION on October 4 at the Loft of the George SK Ty Learning Innovation Wing at the Arete.
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