For the past several years, our students have been engaged in becoming a culture of thinkers, a place where a group’s collective, as well as individual, thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted as part of the regular, day-to-day experience of all group members. We recently adopted the Leader In Me program that helps teach our students leadership, accountability, adaptability, initiative, and self-direction, cross-cultural skills, responsibility, problem-solving, communication, creativity, and teamwork.
Our classroom of thinkers are the leaders of the leaders.
They are burdened not only by being the model learners for their younger brothers, sisters, cousins, and friends who look up to them, but they also are on the verge of one of the biggest transitions of their lives as they prepare to enter the middle school with their 600 new classmates.
My Project
There's no question that our students are at the precipice of a brand new world. They will be facing new challenges that we can only begin to imagine. They will be dealing with dilemmas that we haven't dreamed of yet. The twenty-first century skills that will be required to solve these problems need to be honed and developed at an early age.
Our students need every opportunity to practice and perfect the skills that they're going to need to change the world.
These robots, the Lego Splike Prime, will be the technology that continues to drive our new makerspace; the environment that will provide them the freedom to explore, innovate, think critically, collaborate, code, create, make mistakes, and most importantly, have fun. We need these additional resources to take our thinking to the next level. As our class has started out with our new makerspace, it has become quite apparent that we need more and varied resources to maximize our limited time and opportunities.
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