About the CREATE Lab
The Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment Lab (CREATE Lab) explores socially meaningful innovation and deployment of robotic technologies. We specifically aim to:
Empower a technologically fluent generation through experiential learning opportunities in and outside of school. We define technology fluency as the confidence to author / creatively configure technology to pursue individual and collective goals.
Empower everyday citizens and scientists with affordable environmental sensing and documentation instruments, and powerful visualization platforms for sense-making and sharing of gathered scientific data - to promote evidence based decision making, public discourse and action.
Empower a technologically fluent generation through experiential learning opportunities in and outside of school. We define technology fluency as the confidence to author / creatively configure technology to pursue individual and collective goals.
Empower everyday citizens and scientists with affordable environmental sensing and documentation instruments, and powerful visualization platforms for sense-making and sharing of gathered scientific data - to promote evidence based decision making, public discourse and action.
"Why do I choose to be a part of The Fluency Project?"
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"I believe we have to reconsider educational strategies at a time when technology is changing even more quickly, and the social contract is endangered by chronic underemployment and massive scales of inequality. For me, Fluency is an experiment at directly grappling with these issues- with how we create future generations that can solve the problems we are creating and exacerbating today."
"We are emphasizing the importance of personal narrative and encouraging inquiry. In doing so, the Fluency Project enables others to connect personally to larger movements in data and technology. It is this personal connection that inspires me most."
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"Education for all in the United States was created as a basis for a democratic society. In the information age, development of student voice allows for teaching and learning to support growth across all divides as we use data based reasoned thinking to level the playing field. In serving this greater purpose as educators, we promote data fluency to empower our students."
"For me, the Fluency project is an opportunity, and part of a journey, to partner in opening our lab to educational equity. This journey begins with the ability to express one's self (student voice) and the access to skills and know how (technology fluency) for a new way of practicing alongside educators and students."
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"Fluency aims to change the landscape of education through elevating critical thinking, inquiry, data sense-making, communication and advocacy. Working on this project challenges me to imagine what is possible, not just in the space of education, but within the larger context of human connections based on shared experiences and values. This work has compelled me to question my actions through reflection, and reshaped my paradigm of empowerment and fluency."
"Youth have led some of the biggest social movements in history. I want to be part of the Fluency team because I believe this project helps make space for more student-led change."
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