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The OBS has been accorded a rare honour

In the new edition of his international bestseller on the future of education, “The Fourth Education Revolution”, Sir Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham University, and leading education expert, has highlighted OBS as an example of future-oriented learning.

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“6. Obersee Bilingual School, Switzerland

Obersee Bilingual School15 is an independent Swiss bilingual private school founded in 2003, located close to Lake Zurich. The school’s educational approach is guided by science, and from feedback from students, parents and teachers. All students are taught in English and German for the same subjects, with the languages alternating for set periods. That way, the students develop both languages equally. 

Technology plays a fundamental role in teaching, learning and monitoring progress. Grade one students receive their own tablet on which they can play and learn, much in the same way as they would use a parent or sibling’s tablet or mobile device. 

The school works closely with their adaptive learning platform developer to break educational content down into digital building blocks of knowledge that students can easily consume. The technology, used in conjunction with tablets, help teachers prepare for lessons, deliver them, assign and grade individual and group activities, keep in contact over distance and monitor well-being. 

Virtual reality tours of Rome, Pompeii or Cologne are stimulating for children below ten, as they easily become immersed in the experience. As the student gets older, they distinguish more strongly between virtual reality and the world in which they live. On school trips, where possible, they use AR on their tablets to view how buildings may have looked during construction, or during an earlier age. Educational content for VR is expensive to produce and hence limited, but it is growing. 

Obersee plans to go gradeless within the next couple of years, from nursery to high school. Formative assessments will be comprised of riddles, quizzes, presentations, project collaborations and more traditional tests.”