Confidence - Creativity - Teamwork
The simple answer is that Innovation & Design is a central hub connecting all subjects and disciplines allowing students to take risks, make mistakes, and test their own ideas. Here, students are free from judgment, allowing collaboration to be the norm.
In "real life", people work in teams, make mistakes, and work to solve problems in new ways. INDE gives students a safe place to do just that.
How is STEM different than InDe?
Essentially, STEM provides the tools (the technical and scientific knowledge), and Innovation & Design provides the manual (the methodology) for using those tools to create something new and useful! InDe leverages the knowledge learned in STEM classrooms to solve problems and create NEW products or solutions.
What is it LIKE
in the INDE Lab?
Check out some images and see for yourself:
The Design Thinking Process
HI!
I'm Mr. Molloy, your friendly neighborhood INDE teacher. My goal is to help students break out and become powerful, insightful, team members offering innovative solutions to real world problems.
I have served as an educator in New York and in the UAE of nearly 20 years. In that time I have worked with technology, special needs, gifted/talented, and innovation/design. I have piloted new programs, open new schools, and advised the UAE government on SEN development and teacher evaluation protocols.