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  GEMS Innovation Lab

Draft Lab Framework

8/16/2016

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GEMS INNOVATION LAB LEARNING FRAMEWORK
-DRAFT-
​August 2016

​Program Goals:
  • Prepare students for a lifetime of rapid-paced, innovation.
  • Provide students with rigorous, challenging, responsive pedagogy.

Program Outcomes:
  • Students and teachers co-create a learning environment characterized by inquiry and hands-on exploration.
  • Students and teachers use evolving technologies to research, communicate, and innovate.
  • Students and teachers are empowered to collaborate, co-create, and provide each other with feedback for learning innovations.
  • Students and teachers develop, test, and implement learning innovations.

Program Guiding Principles (aligned with Transferable Skills):
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Curiosity and Imagination
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Collaboration
  • Communication

Program Learning Dispositions:

Risk-taking and resilience
Guiding questions:
  • To what extent are students willing  to take learning risks?
  • To what extent do student learn through experimentation that can result in both failures and successes?
  • To what extent will a student persevere at a challenging task or problem?
  • In what ways can students identity problems, frame questions, and design actions based on both experimentation and evidence?

Visualization
Guiding question:
  • To what extent can students “see” a problem, represent it, describe it in different ways in order to create a plan?

Application of Knowledge and Skills
Guiding questions:
  • To what extent do students use knowledge and skills of design thinking and multiple tools to identify and solve problems?
  • In what ways does engagement in innovation learning designs build student capacity to apply knowledge and skills to novel and challenging problems?

Collaboration
Guiding question:
  • To what extent can student and teacher collaboration improve student risk-taking, resilience, visualization, and application of knowledge and skills?

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