Foxbank Elementary Library & Makerspace
FBE Makerspace Core Beliefs:
Our Makerspace hosts collaborative projects that allow students to engage in experiences that encourage creativity, collaboration and adaptability. We’re passionate about building and facilitating these projects to help students and teachers build connections among, various subjects, grade levels and the community.
FBE Makerspace Student Goals
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
Develop, implement, and communicate new ideas to others effectively
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 are 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
(Worlds of Making by Laura Fleming)