Learning Commons Goals
1. To help student refine their literacy skills (reading, writing, research, listening, speaking) through the use of the inquiry research process.
2. To create a playground with a variety of digital tools, electronics, and art supplies which encourage kids to tinker, explore, and take risks as they solve problems, invent, and think outside the box in an independent manner. 3. To encourage students to become less of a consumer and more of a creator. 4. To promote use of critical thinking, problem solving, and creative thinking through the use of the design thinking process by all stakeholders at the school. 5. To encourage students to invent prototypes for their regular school inquiry projects--beyond the simple regurgitation of typical/traditional school projects. 6. To create project pathways which will help provide direction for students in creating new inventions for their inquiry projects--beyond the simple regurgitation of typical/traditional school projects. |
Project Pathways
Certainly there are really no limitations to the things that students can explore and create in the MakerSpace, and every effort will be made to gather supplies for requested items/projects. But, by focusing of several Pathways, materials, time, and funds can more effectively reach students and provide an avenue towards serious design and invention.
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Learning Commons Areas and Tools1. MakerSpace Book Displays
2. Makerspace Main Table Activity 3. Coding with SCRATCH Station 4. 3D Pens Zone 5. Always Art All the Time Table 6. Electronics Tinkering Table 7. Green Screen 8. MakerSpace Open Materials 9. Fix It Table 10. Lego Wall 11. Robots Always on the Floor Zone 12. Interactive Screen Classroom Area 13. MediaScape Collaboration Table 14. 3 large group computer banks 15. 2 small group iPad stations 16. Fiction and Easy Book Collections 17. Nonfiction and Biography Collections 18. Destiny Discover and Cobb Digital Library 19. Addison Learning Commons Weebly 20. Addison Digital Tech Tools Symbaloo |
Addison Shopping Spots for Research
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