In Floods and Floating Schools, Rushton features Mohammed Rezwan who came up with the idea of a network of boats that are both school buses and schoolhouses for students ages six to ten in Northern Bangladesh.
He gives the following prompts to accompany this video:
“If you were to create a different kind of school, what might it look like? How could it make learning different from the school you attend now?
Are there ideas you have for making your school a different place? If so, what might that look like? Can you explain a problem that your idea addresses? Can you prove that the problem is really a problem?”
What a great idea! It shows how people in Bangladesh valued education enough to figure out a way for these children to learn. It would also show our students how much they take their education for granted. It was fascinating how the different boats were for different activities and it would be fun to think of other activities that could be done on the boats for the children. I would also have my students think of the challenges they might face on the boats and discuss how to overcome those obstacles.
Please check out the video and think of other prompts you might come up with. Please share.
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