This past week I’ve asked the students in inNOVAtion Lab to reflect on their journey so far (1st Marking Period). And because this is a course wherein we, the students and I, are writing the story together, I, too, have to write about this first marking period. In doing so, I’m bound to come clean. Continue reading “The Opening Act”
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10/17/19 — When the Dams Broke
Originally posted on Entropic Development:
This week was extraordinary in a few ways. To address the least interesting of the list, I have an incredible amount of homework. (You’ll have to forgive me if I present a stressed tone) On Thursday, Perkiomen Valley High School’s Innovation Lab students had the opportunity to go to the…
Philadelphia Innovation Festival
Originally posted on Taja's Digital Porfolio:
The B.PHL Innovation Festival in Philly was an amazing experience. Hearing successful people with experience in the world of entrepreneurship talk about what we’ve been talking about in class for the past few weeks was extremely validating. I’m also grateful we had the opportunity to listen to the…
Existential Questions on Why the Heck I Enrolled in Innovation Lab
Originally posted on Taja's Digital Porfolio:
I think my main attraction towards this class is how open it was. For weeks, I thought “wait, what am I getting myself into? Why is the syllabus a drawing?? Why aren’t things clear?!?!?” Eventually I came to realize… that’s what the class is about. It’s not a…
Brains, Cheetos, and a Theory of Creativity
(The final installment of my blog posts about the B.Phl Innovation Festival. Here’s the first post. Here’s the second.) On Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 31 of the 54 students enrolled in NOVA Lab attended the third day of the first annual B.Phl Innovation Festival. While our trip was somewhat shortened (traffic on the abominable SchukyllContinue reading “Brains, Cheetos, and a Theory of Creativity”
A Day in the Life of a BPhl Innovation Festival Attendee
This was a long week, but I wish it were longer. And that is due to the B.Phl Innovation festival. Centered at the Independence Blue Cross (IBX) building (1901 Market), with Ground Zero being the IBX Innovation Center on the 13th and 14th floors. However, the festival spread out around the city, from the UniversityContinue reading “A Day in the Life of a BPhl Innovation Festival Attendee”
Philadelphia’s B.Phl Innovation Festival
A few weeks ago one of the students in NOVA Lab informed me of an innovation festival being hosted in Philadelphia. After checking it out on the web, I was convinced this would be a place for our students to learn why innovation and design thinking were so important to the economy they’d soon beContinue reading “Philadelphia’s B.Phl Innovation Festival”
Open Ideo: Design Thinking For Social Impact
I’ve grown fond of the way we’ve been discussing people’s ideas, offering pushback and extending their thinking in new and prosperous ways. Don Wettrick’s “ROTH IRA” Cycle is something we’ll have to struggle through a few times before we get the pacing and rhythms down, but that’s the same with orchestrating any large group (andContinue reading “Open Ideo: Design Thinking For Social Impact”
NOVA Lab Branding
Consider the story: A class about turning the learning over to the learner, but with the support and structure to make sure it’s productive and purposeful A space within the school for you to put your ideas, your passions, your time to use figuring out why things are the way they are, and designingContinue reading “NOVA Lab Branding”
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