Harvard’s Daniel Wilson: ‘We should rethink homework. It’s hard to learn without real-life relevance’​

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Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Innovation’s educational research laboratory, is collaborating with Spain’s Universidad Camilo José Cela private schools on a program that seeks to describe and understand what is happening in UCJC’s nationwide network. The schools are seeking to encourage curiosity, a sense of belonging and fun through their students’ interactions with their surroundings, whether those take place at day centers for the elderly, mechanical workshops or greenhouses — and integrate these experiences into school curriculum. “It’s a collaborative project with UCJC, non-invasive. It’s not about the lab coming up with questions and then testing them in these schools,” says Daniel Wilson (Waterville, Maine; 1969), who has been the director of Project Zero since 2023, and is currently heading up the Spanish program, which they are calling Learning Outside-In.

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