Thanks to all who came out for the Share Fair!!
And thanks to all for loaning me your children this year!!
I found the following on line and felt that this encompassed a lot of what our Design Unit was all about:
Learning and innovation skills increasingly are being recognized as the skills that separate students who are prepared for increasingly complex life and work environments in the 21st century, and those who are not. A focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future.
Creativity & Innovation
Think Creatively
- Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming)
- Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts)
- Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts
Work Creatively with Others
- Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectivel
- Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work
- Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas
- View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes
Implement Innovations
- Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur
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Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Reason Effectively
- Use various types of reasoning (inductive, deductive, etc.) as appropriate to the situation
Use Systems Thinking
- Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to produce overall outcomes in complex systems
Make Judgments and Decisions
- Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs
- Analyze and evaluate major alternative points of view
- Synthesize and make connections between information and arguments
- Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best analysis
- Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes
Solve Problems
- Solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both conventional and innovative ways
- Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions
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Communication & Collaboration
Communicate Clearly
- Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts
- Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes and intentions
- Use communication for a range of purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade)
- Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their effectiveness a priori as well as assess their impact
- Communicate effectively in diverse environments (including multi-lingual)
Collaborate with Others
- Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams
- Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal
- Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and value the individual contributions made by each team member
This next weeeeeeeek will be filled with inventory of the LEGO boxes. I've been a real witch about them - I have a baggy of LEGO pieces I found on the floor. I'm going to exact a penalty from the team that needs them back!! We've got to take care of the things that we share! Oh, and cleaning up the room. Teachers are supposed to have all of their stuff that's on the floor moved out into the hall so the custodians can strip the floors....ahhhhh!
Please put on your lists for me for next year: Duct Tape HotGlueGun-Glue Sticks Printer Ink
On second thought, don't. I'll remind you again next year!! But now you'll be forewarned!
Thanks for a great year with these small people. I wonder what kind of mischief we can get into NEXT YEAR!! Keep in touch, I'll try to write in the blog more often (especailly if people out there write to me, too!) Stay safe and excellent to each other!!
XXOO!!
Mrs. Mac
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