{"data":{"ID":1148,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667393862,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Designing and Refining a Makerspace\/Innovation Lab at the Middle Level","Handle":"designing_and_refining_a_makerspace-innovation_lab_at_the_middle_level","ShortDescription":"Are you interested in building a learning community where everyone is a teacher, students learn how to fail forward, and creativity is celebrated? Our middle school is in year two of operating  six different Innovation Labs that 6th graders visit daily. Come reflect on our journey to challenge and plan your own.","Description":"In our middle school, each sixth grader has a dedicated daily period of Innovation. Students spend six weeks in each lab: Coding and Robotics, Clean Tech, Humanities, Wellness, Makerspace, and Simulations. We would like to share how we got to this point, our ever evolving goals, how we used the ISTE Standards to guide us, connections across curricular areas, assessment practices, interdisciplinary collaboration, ongoing feedback, the development of guiding axioms and our ongoing evolution. We have used two different models to provide access to our 7th and 8th graders. \r\nWe will also engage the group in a short immersive hands on experience where facilitators will challenge participants following the model of the Innovation Axioms. \r\nAfter the immersive experiences, we will have an interactive discussion about the activity. that will be followed by an Open Space activity where participants can self-select into discussions around the following areas: \r\nGroup 1- My class\/school does not yet have a Makerspace\/Innovation experience but we are interested in designing one.\r\nGroup 2- My class\/school has a fledgling Makerspace\/Innovation experience and I would like to review our progress and plans.\r\nGroup 3- My class\/school has a Makerspace\/Innovation Program and I would like to review our learnings and future thinking around it \r\nGroup 4- I have additional questions for the presenter.\r\nThe conversation will close with a brief 3-4 question survey on the Padlet.","Link":["https:\/\/sites.google.com\/nccsk12.org\/smsinovspaces\/home?authuser=0"],"Audience":["Middle School"],"Practice":"Participants will access a Padlet using a QR code that will include all slides, resources and organizational tools for participants to engage in the Open Space portion of the conversation. This provides participants with a single point of digital access to the content, resources and their own reflective thinking.","Presenter":["Thea MacFawn","Catara Vinson-Westbrook","Mark Kaercher"],"PresenterAffiliation":["North Colonie Central Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["Thea.MacFawn@nccsk12.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":144,"ScheduleLocationID":33,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10}}