Innovation Camp for Educators, Vanatta, Summer 2019

Note: Course payment of $1,750 is due and payable to Windsor Central Supervisory Union.

Course Description

Innovation Camp for Educators engages participants in the innovation process. This 5-day camp will get your creative juices flowing as you gain first-hand experience working in a collaborative studio environment. You’ll learn how to use a framework of innovation and enabling technologies to develop your problem solving skills with the intent of integrating this creative mindset within your school or organization.

During the 5-day camp, participants will:

• Experience hands-on creative problem solving using a framework of innovation
• Gain insight into how NuVu's framework for innovation can be applied in your classroom, school, program, or collaborative environment
• Collaborate with others to design projects while going through the design process with the support of our expert Coaches
• Learn to use digital fabrication tools, digital software, and enabling technologies (Examples include 3D modeling, 3D printers, laser cutters, physical computing, programmable microcontrollers, wearable electronics)
• Acquire fabrication and making skills
• Connect with others interested in creative education, design, and innovation

Audience: All educators

Course Objectives

Course Goals:

• Experience and comfort with the overall design process and how it can be applied to primary and secondary education practices as well as organizations outside of education
• Proficiency in hands-on making techniques

Course Objectives:

• How can the design process and the studio pedagogy be applied within various types of classes to increase student engagement and ownership of their individual learning?
• How can hands-on learning be open-ended allowing for student choice and ownership, yet focused enough for a productive and cohesive class?
• How do the different stages of the design process work and how do they build off of each other?

Course Expectations 

The educators will take part in a project spanning the entire length of the workshop which will take them through:

• Early stage research
• Brainstorming
• Precedent research
• Rapid ideation and prototyping
• Critique and feedback sessions
• Collaborative design
• And more

With each of these stages, the educators will take part in the activities and be part of a larger discussion on the practices and techniques they can deploy in their own classes.  While the projects will be varied in specific content, the entire class will begin with a singular prompt.

Evaluation: Participants will be evaluated primarily on the process and their engagement with the skills rather than an output of the project.

For additional course information

Max Vanatta
(719) 660-2957

For additional registration information

Jen Stainton

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