collaborative learning Archives - Inventionland Education

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How Students Benefit from Taking Our Course for Multiple Years

As developers of education tools, we pride ourselves in empowering students to think independently, work creatively, and learn collaboratively through our STEM curriculum. The course we’ve designed is extremely flexible, putting the power into the hands of students as they develop, build, and advertise their own original product. However, although our course is adaptable for…

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Our Best Tips for Converting Classrooms into Creative Spaces

Teachers are always looking for new ways to inspire their students. We asked members of the Inventionland®Education team to give us their top three tweaks teachers can make in the classroom spark student creativity. Nathan Field, Executive Director Eliminate assigned seats. If two students who don’t get along have to sit next to each other,…

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Teacher Feature: Adrienne Hoffman, Cambria Elementary School

Teaching elementary school students poses different challenges than teaching middle and high school students. To be able to take complicated STEAM topics and introduce them in a way that is not only exciting but understandable to younger minds is no easy feat. Adrienne Hoffman, the Inventionland®and STEAM Facilitator for grades K-5 at Cambria Elementary School…

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Innovation in the Classroom

To say classrooms have evolved over the past 30 years is an understatement. Thirty years ago, a teacher was considered innovative and thinking out of the box if she signed up for one of the televisions stored in the library, carefully rolled it on the cart down the hall, and brought in a VHS clip…

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We’re Collaborating to Help Remake Learning in Pittsburgh!

This week at the Inventionland®Institute, we’re excited to welcome representatives from Pittsburgh’s Ligonier Valley School District. Though we’re always excited to welcome visitors to our very own creative makerspace, this visit is particularly exciting, because it marks the second time that Ligonier Valley representatives will visit Inventionland®- in just one month’s time! Could there be…

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Giving Thanks for an Already-Exceptional 2015!

Before we break to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with our family and friends, we’ve just got to take a minute to reflect on and give thanks for what an incredible, STEM-filled year 2015 has been for the Inventionland®Institute curriculum and our creative space-making capabilities. Our project-based inventing curriculum may have started to take off in…

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An Unconference and an International Opportunity? Oui! Oui!

From attending an “unconference” conference to welcoming a group of international visitors to our creative space, the last week has been a whirlwind of great networking opportunities for the Inventionland®Education! On November 7th, Executive Director Nathan Field attended EdCampPGH at Pittsburgh’s Montour Area High School. The day-long event was filled with educators from across the…

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