The Fluency Project will...
Fluency will empower teachers and students with the capabilities to participate in today’s big data movement, to find a home for inquiry, narrative, and advocacy in the classroom, and personalize problem-based learning. Fluency will build on the CREATE Lab’s experience working with teachers and schools to create a new engagement pathway for technology and data fluency. Learners will investigate data, reconcile it with their personal experience, and influence public discourse. In addition to projects where students create technology or media in order to express the self through their learning, they can also use powerful data analysis and visualization tools to turn observations into compelling arguments.
About the CREATE Lab
The Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment Lab (CREATE Lab) explores socially meaningful innovation and deployment of robotic technologies. We aim to empower a technologically fluent generation. The CREATE Lab consists of a multidisciplinary team of educators, education researchers, artists, scientists, programmers, and engineers with varied skills and backgrounds. The Lab members have a strong history of collaborating with other educators in multiple capacities, including professional development, product co-design, and teacher residencies. The Fluency project will bring together several existing CREATE Lab projects, technologies, and practices as a foundation.
About The Heinz Endowments
The Heinz Endowments is based in Pittsburgh, where we use our region as a laboratory for the development of solutions to challenges that are national in scope. Although the majority of our giving is concentrated within southwestern Pennsylvania, we work wherever necessary, including statewide and nationally, to fulfill our mission. That mission is to help our region thrive as a whole community, economically, ecologically, educationally and culturally, while advancing the state of knowledge and practice in the fields in which we work. Our fields of emphasis include philanthropy in general and the disciplines represented by our five grant-making programs: Arts & Culture; Children, Youth & Families; Community & Economic Development; Education; and Environment.
Project Timeline
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Spring 2016
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Recruit Cohort teachers for residency.
Fluency Team collaborate with subject matter experts/advisors. |
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Summer 2016
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Cohort teachers attend paid the Summer Residency (2 weeks).
Cohort teachers participate in co-design and research activities. |
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Fall 2016
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Cohort organize training sessions further exploring skills touched upon in the Summer Residency.
Cohort teachers participate in co-design and research activities. Cohort teachers provide feedback to CREATE Lab developers. Explore technology tools and curricular tools. Cohort Teachers test projects designed in the Summer Residency in their schools. |
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Winter 2016
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Cohort teachers attend and organize training sessions further exploring skills touched upon in the Summer Residency.
Iterate technology tools and curricular tools. Cohort teachers participate in co-design and research activities. Cohort teachers provide feedback to CREATE Lab developers. Cohort Teachers test projects designed in the Summer Residency in their schools. |
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Spring 2017
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Cohort teachers attend and organize training sessions further exploring skills touched upon in the Summer Residency.
Iterate technology tools and curricular tools. Cohort Teachers test projects designed in the Summer Residency in their schools. Cohort teachers participate in co-design and research activities. Cohort teachers provide feedback to CREATE Lab developers. Establish best practices & inform future professional development. |
