First Reflection From The Innovation Labs
We are about a month into Innovation Lab, and even though that may sound like a lot, I only see each class once a week for an hour. In all, since we’ve had some days off since the start of school, I’ve...
View ArticleYear in Review: Lessons from the Innovation Lab
I came up with the Innovation Lab, our take on the makerspace, when I first got to Fair Haven eighteen months ago. The goal was to make an engaging technology “special” to replace our more traditional...
View ArticleSometimes It Is Just About The Technology
We hear educators say it all the time: technology is just a tool or it’s not just about the technology, it’s about how a teacher uses it. While I fundamentally agree with these types of statements,...
View ArticleEvolving Our Makerspace: An EdCorp Designing for Slack
When I got to Fair Haven two years ago, I started our version of a makerspace called The Innovation Lab. In The Innovation Lab, we use design thinking to make for others as we expose kids to computer...
View ArticleEvolving our Makerspace: 3 Lessons Learned Designing for Slack
The Slack Design Challenge continues! If you haven’t been following my last few posts, I have decided to take entrepreneurship in our makerspace, called The Innovation Lab (under construction), to the...
View ArticleEvolving Our Makerspace: The Conclusion
For those of you who haven’t been following along with my last few posts, our fifth and sixth grade student-run business, FH Gizmos, landed a manufacturing contract with Slack. Slack tasked us with...
View ArticleFH Innovates Update: FH Leads
Hello, friends. It’s been a minute! My final masters class has been a slog, but I’m happy to report I’m basically done. We now return you to our regularly scheduled blog. A lot has been happening with...
View ArticleFlexibility in the Gamified Classroom
Usually, I try to write something for this site every two weeks, but you may have noticed a month or more passing between posts lately. It turns out my last semester of grad school was a doozy, but...
View Article5 Ways I’ve Redesigned My Rubric And You Should Too
In Fair Haven Innovates, students from 4th to 8th grade follow the same design process. They use our design process to solve problems, create solutions, and turn these solutions into real products that...
View ArticleWhat Student Passion Looks Like
In my Fair Haven Innovates program, I use social entrepreneurship to help expose students to design, computer science, engineering, and the digital arts while also helping them develop their soft...
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