Our first repair session – and the students were super excited to learn and show their skills in disassembly. Archer Academy’s IT Manager Khalid provided laptops with broken screens. We started with laptop fundamentals.
Education blog
We’re still working to make our schools programme as engaging and effective as possible. After launching our first programme at Archer Academy in London, we’re looking for new schools to roadtest our materials with.
If you’re affiliated with a school and interested in working with us, click here for a summary of the materials we have available so far. Or take a look at our blog below for updates about our work and reflections on its impact.
Repair in school, around the world
We are seeing hints that electronics repair is spreading and proliferating in both primary and secondary school, in Europe and North America.
Restart @school session 4: Researching and getting organised for repair
We were encouraged to stress organisation, preparation and mindful disassembly with year 10 students at Archer Academy in London. Our game controller disassembly and reassembly session worked really well.
Restart @school session 3: Safety and taking electronics apart
In our third session with Archer Academy students, we finally got hands-on with gadgets. But not before we took a couple moments to talk about safety.
Restart @school session 2: Our stress, worker stress
How often do we connect our own predicament with those across the world? In Session 2 of our pilot enrichment project at Archer Academy, we tried to associate the stress we feel in our consumerist, status-focused society with that transferred to workers.
Restart @school session 1: The environmental impact of gadgets
We’ve started our ten-week enrichment project with Archer Academy students in north London. For our first session, we met the students and delved into what motivates us to take action.
Starting restart in schools
This month, we will begin a ten-session enrichment programme with students at the Archer Academy, a school in North London. We will start with a dive into why we need to change our relationship with electronic and get hands-on.
Calling student leaders (and their teachers)!
We’re recruiting a couple of student leaders of secondary school age to help lay the foundations for a global student campaign against our throw-away relationship with electronics.