FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

1. 1. How can I participate in my child's education with case-lessons?

• Thanks for the interesting question. You have several options:
• 1) Contact the school's administration, where your child studies, with a proposal to implement case-lessons 7W into the educational process. Thus, all classmates of your child will work together with cases, pumping team skills etc.
• 2) Engage with the child using case-lessons independently at home. Your child will receive an individual approach (all the attention only to him) and you will have a great time with your family.
• 3) Unite with the parents of your child's friends and work with cases together at a convenient time.

1. 2. Why are case studies so expensive? $ 15 is a lot for one.

• Yes, you are right. This was the initial price when cases were sold mostly one by one. Now, when cases are often bought in whole packages, classes and schools, prices will be significantly reduced. In addition, there will be package discounts (from February 5, 2019).

1. 3. I do not understand how case lessons can develop the skills that the speaker is talking about.

• Today, in addition to knowledge, competence is acquiring great importance in education.
• For example, "system thinking". There are cases in which logic and consistency are built so consistently that a child has a holistic perception of a picture of the world or phenomenon (which is difficult to achieve in other ways).
• For example, "the ability to choose priorities." In many cases, our algorithm is designed so that the child has to make some choice and at the same time think about the consequences of his choice. Several of these exercises allow him to tune the brain and character to link the decisions and their consequences. This will be very important tj track his/her life and business priorities.
• For example, “empathy”. In some cases it is suggested to “get into the skin”, for example, of android or a bear, and look at some problem from the other side. It develops qualities such as creativity, innovative solutions and helping other people.
• For example, "the ability to work over ambiguous information." For example, when you need to choose a diet, tourist route or future profession, which is influenced by many factors. Some cases contain such algorithms that produce these necessary qualities of concentration of attention and achievement of the desired results.
• It is said that people cannot acquire good qualities from books. But Elon Musk, who often notes the effectiveness of case technologies, once told an example from his life. He was afraid of the dark in childhood. And once he came across a book about the "light". From there he learned that light consists of photons. However, it struck him that the photon has no structure, no size and no mass at all. And he thought: “And this is me, afraid of such small and weightless ones?”. So he, through the book, overcame the nyctophobia (fear of the dark). This happened to him occasionally, and we design case-lessons so specially.

1. 4. Passed the case and got the skills? Bullshit!

• The explanation and answer is higher in the previous question.

1. 5. How to coordinate a case lesson with the school administration?

• The arguments for administration are as follows.
• 1. Children with case-lessons learn the educational material easier and faster.
• 2. The school will increase its credibility among other schools – as an innovative school with modern educational technologies.
• 3. In case-lessons, academic knowledge is perfectly linked with life practice, which is lacking in ordinary textbooks.
• 4. Case-lessons can be conducted during regular lessons (many subject teachers do this), as well as during after-hours work.
• 5. Many schools devote a whole thematic day to these cases, for example, the case "Jeans", when everyone comes in a variety of jeans, and discusses: fabrics (cotton and others, this is botany); physics (how to do stretch in physics formulas); economy (cost estimate jeans); design (brands and fashion); chemistry (painting and washing, according to the chemistry formulas); the History (the era before the jeans and after them, what else was at this time ), and so on.
• 6. We have specially designed 9-month courses for the completely academic year (in a package of 9 case-studies), which can be held once a month. Children love these case-sessions very much, prepare for them thoroughly, and as a result receive deep and fresh knowledge in many areas at once.
• 7. Moreover, parents are satisfied with these case lessons. They see a significant development upgrade of their children and ask to continue such case studies more often.
• 8. These case-lessons are completely ready. There is no need to waste hours and days to prepare to the lessons that is very important to teachers.
• 9. Therefore, you should contact the school principal with the proposal to introduce innovative methods that have already been tested and have shown their big effectiveness.

1. 6. I need recommendations on how to act correctly, the director of the school where I work is very conservative and does not like to introduce something new without permits.

• There is little chance, but they are. Perhaps the principal does not want to be listed among those lagging behind in comparison with his colleagues. For example, approximately the same situation was recently, when in such situations the directors did not want to implement computers and smart boards. However, over time, they also began to apply them.
• Moreover, case studies are widely used in higher education institutions, and it would be good if schoolchildren knew from school how to study and prepare for universities effectively and in a modern way.

1. 7. The following is not entirely clear: say that case-lessons correspond to the school curriculum. Which country? Everyone has a different program.

• Yes, we understand that. However, basic academic knowledge is usually common to all countries in major subjects (mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology, etc.) Therefore, we realized an idea to combine 2 in 1: fundamental knowledge and competences in one place. And this is a big advantage of our case study lessons.

1. 8. Good day. I purchased your Bullying case and we enjoyed viewing it in class with both children and parents. But why do you have so few case studies on social topics?

• Look. In fact, we have several cases on acute social topics. For example, “Friends online and in life”; “Chemistry of love”; “No one can spoil my mood today.” In our plans there are case-lessons (coming soon): “Multicultural Age”; “Fake Information”; “Rich and Poor”; etc.

1. 9. Can you make an order?

• Yes, we can. 18 specialists participate in the production of each case, for about one month, and these terms and volumes depend on the specific task. Write us a letter and we will discuss these possibilities. ([email protected] )

3. 10. Can I choose scans on my own or is it obligatory to conduct all scans during one lesson?

• You can independently choose both the sequence and the number of scan, but nevertheless, make sure that such selectivity will not negatively affect knowledge consistency.

3. 11. How can I choose a case-lesson?

• You can choose by topics, grades, skills etc.

3. 12. How many case-lessons do you have?

• We have more than 500 case-lessons in English, French, Spanish and more than 10 others languages. Enjoy!

3. 13. What should I know when preparing a case-lesson?

• To start, select a lesson topic in advance. To do this, consider the age of children, what are they preferably interested in, and what skills will be important them to get.
• When the case is selected, read it. What will cause them a discussion?
• A hall or a study room should be equipped with a system for case-lessons demonstration (or individual tablets, PC), as well as a clock with a timer.
• Children should feel at ease, be free and show maximum communication and initiative. The proportion of "the children speak and show" and "the teacher says and shows" should be 65:35.
• Enjoy!

3. 14. Do you have English case-lessons only? What about other languages?

• We have case-lessons in English, French, Spanish and more than 10 others languages. Enjoy!

3. 15. Is case-lesson additional information to the main lesson or a separate lesson?

• A case-lesson can be held within the framework of the curriculum and, in addition to it, in the variable block. For example, at the lesson of Health and Safety, extended day groups, online, during holidays, quarantines, etc.

3. 16. What institutions can use case-lessons?

• Case-lessons can be conducted at schools by teachers, at home by parents, at colleges by professors. Also it can be used during external studying, quarantine, when teaching students of extended school day or students living abroad.

3. 17. Can I invite the second teacher to help with cases? I don't understand anything in the science...

• Well, you have several options:
• 1) If you want to invite another teacher to help you, of course, you can do it.
• 2) One teacher can handle one case-lesson. You can really deal with it easily without special knowledge.
• 3) Nobody knows everything, but you are a facilitator of the case-lesson. Your main task is to guide the activities of your students, support their search, their work, their discussion. If you do not know some topic, you can invite students to google it and deal with it together.
• The third option becomes the most popular among teachers, because it promotes collaboration, imagination and deep knowledge.

3. 18. I didn't understand what flipped classroom is.

• “Flipped classroom” is a studying method. You give students the task in advance to read the case-lesson on their own at home, and in the class during the lesson you are just summarize the information, answer the key questions and implement the material in practice.
• The teacher actually checks the quality of knowledge after students self-preparation; explains the material that requires additional study; arrange discussion in the class and consolidates the material developed by practical tasks.
• You can use it when there is not enough time to carry out a case-lesson.

Surely in your school there is such a term as vocational guidance. Probably, it has a different name - but the essence is the same: the teachers help pupils make decision as to their future profession. But have you ever thought that something really important could be missing in this matter?

Changes in education are facilitated by the future: professions of the future, business of the future and competencies of the future. We can discuss a lot how to help children choose their future profession - to pass special tests, have practice at different enterprises or give them the right to choose themselves, let them do what they want.

It is necessary to stay one step ahead of yourself. It`s already high time to define a number of professions of the future, which will become of high demand and cash-rich in 5-10 years. Shall we consider some examples?

Online doctors

A doctor who heals well, knows languages, knows how to use the computer and understands business can have a better career compared to those who do not have these competencies.

Virtualists and Cyberspecialists

Cybersecurity specialists and practically “movie-like” cyberdetectives are no longer the future, but reality. There have already been steps in this direction. Soon the number of virtual projects and opportunities (and along with them crimes) will exceed the number of real ones. So, there will be a growing demand for people who understand this. The criminals will have to be caught online too. Good-bye, handcuffs and prisons. Now there will be a ban and lifetime blocking.

We have already compiled a list of 100 professions that will be in demand in the near future. And children who want to earn more than their peers have a chance to get familiar with this list of professions right now in order to get ahead of others.

And we will make it a rule to acquaint you with hundreds of professions, skills, competencies and opportunities that will open the door to the future every time you receive a letter from us.

Students are sick and tired of school! These boring lessons! This tiresome homework!

They wonder whether school lessons will ever become interesting and useful and knowledge will be necessary and important?

There are two options:

1) Apply your vivid imagination and imagine an incredible school of the future with a completely new approach to everything: other teachers, other texts and illustrations in textbooks, another assessment of knowledge and skills.
2) Find out that such lessons already exist. They have already been applied successfully by thousands of people. There are just some of those who, for some reason, appeared on the sidelines of the progress and are now rushing forward past the future.

The first option is good and we have a link to such imagination. Next time we will see it.

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Now the cases are on all continents:

Among the ardent admirers of case lessons there are the representatives of the world elite. Recently Elon Mask stated that studying both mathematics and physics along with the humanities will be beneficial if applying such case technologies. Don`t you believe me? Google yourself. By the way, here is a good example why case studies are needed - this technique teaches us how to use available resources (search engines, social networks) and create new knowledge to change life on the planet.

What makes cases attractive?

• Schoolchildren, teachers, methodologists and parents like them. They appeal even to that part of school administration, which is always unhappy with something and questions everything; • They are recognized as the most promising type of school activities; • They have received support of the progressive part of the pedagogical community and the world elite; • They have been approved by psychologists, technologists and academic community.

The technology of cases creation is patented and has no analogues in the world. Their effectiveness is confirmed by modern trends in the development of education. It is important that an increasing number of experts from different countries are getting engaged into the development of cases and their application.

Join now! Write to [email protected], and we will add your school to the interactive map that reflects the geography of cases in the world.