Welcome to Mrs. Henriquez-Santiago's Innovation Lab (iLab)
at Park Avenue School!
What is an Innovation Lab? The Innovation Lab is where our 1st - 5th graders learn the skills and growth mindset they’ll need to be successful as 21st century learners. Using blended, problem-based learning, students are introduced to design thinking, engineering, computer science, and the digital arts as they learn to fail-forward with iteration, work as a team, and empathize with others. An Innovation Lab is a workspace designed to optimize innovation. # It’s a unique environment for creativity and information sharing, collaboration, building new knowledge, creating, and developing comprehensive solutions. # It’s an exploratory learning place that provides students with the tools, space, and guidance to inspire and nurture discovery and tinkering. # Through real-time critical thinking and trial-and-error activities, students will learn to design solutions to real world problems. # It is flexible, with movable equipment and furniture. Having furniture on wheels creates a fluid workspace that adapts to the needs of the students allowing them to customize their experience and challenge themselves to achieve their personal best. # It will be available for students to work independently and collaboratively on classwork, robotics and STEAM competitions, coding and computer science, and multimedia/digital arts projects. |
Here We Learn How To Use Technology To:
Create
Observe
Manipulate
Present
Utilize
Teach
Entertain and
Research
Create
Observe
Manipulate
Present
Utilize
Teach
Entertain and
Research