Draft Lab Framework

GEMS INNOVATION LAB LEARNING FRAMEWORK
-DRAFT-
August 2016

Program Goals:

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):

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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