My students need Little Bits to enhance their STEAM education in our newly created Pride Innovation Lab. Little Bits is the ultimate app-enabled invention toolbox for hands-on inventing, problem solving, and creativity.
We have 300 over Kindergarten through Fifth graders in our school with various learning styles, cultural backgrounds, ideas, and socioeconomic status.
Our students are learning how to be more than just consumers of information and technology.
They are being empowered and encouraged to take risks and to learn from their mistakes They are creators, makers, and inventors.
We are trying to design an Innovation Lab where our learners will be active, use technology, think creatively, and work collaboratively. We hope to foster engagement, academic rigor, student responsibility by providing students with open-ended design challenges that promotes deign-thinking. We believe in student leadership and an inquiry-based approach to learning, so we are constantly looking for ways to inspire them, to challenge them, and to develop them into lifelong learners. Many of our students depend on our school to not only provide them with an education, but also life experiences as many do not have the opportunities at home.
My Project
This year, I had great success initiating our Pride Innovation Lab at our school. We had so much success that I am trying to expand the resources we have in order to further develop project based learning.
With these littleBits and Gizmos kits, students are going to be making real world connections with science, technology, engineering, art and math lessons.
We want them collaborating, interacting with others, thinking and questioning. In doing all of these things, we want our students to use the proponents of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) in their learning. It is critical for us as educators to incorporate as many opportunities as possible into the curriculum that makes learning relevant to today’s world, which is why we are teaching our students to problem solve and to be innovative.
To do this, we need littleBits, which are electronic building blocks that allow our students to build circuits that make electronics come alive because it gives them immediate feedback on the building decisions that they make. As budding engineers and inventors, they will use littleBits and their imagination to build things that solve real world problems.
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