Innovation
Riverbend dLAb:
Through:
Making, Imagining, Designing, Creating, Exploring, Tinkering, Design thinking & Iterating
In a rich, robust, and prepared environment that:
Will spark students’ imagination
Allow for open-ended exploration
With the anticipated outcomes of:
Taking risks
Building confidence
Exploring their interests
Completing open-ended projects
Developing spatial awareness and logic
Developing skills (digital, using tools, machines, fine motor)
Acquiring knowledge of how things in their world work
Seeing themselves as engineers and scientists
Computational literacy
With the long term goal of:
Caring about self, others, environment, and our world
Learning to collaborate to successfully exist in a global society
Transforming their world
Five strands of work in the dLab:
Engineering/Making models
Age-appropriate Digital Literacy (digital footprint, plagiarism, social media)
Coding
Robotics
Skill building (typing, research, source evaluating and citing)
QUOTE FROM DR. MARIA MONTESSORI:
“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”