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Inspired Learning to Get Results Now at #ModelSchools

A Principal's Reflections

Makerspaces—collaborative, creative spaces chock full of tools and materials for informal creation, invention, and learning—are becoming increasingly popular at forward-thinking schools and libraries. Bill Daggett edcamp ICLE Jim Warford Jimmy Casas Makerspace Model Schools Conference' Hope to see you there!

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Notes from the "Makerspace for Elementary Schools" Session @ #edcampsteam

Saving Socrates

It is designated space such as a library, or unused locker room they can refurbish. In elementary school, a little more guided. Using hummingbird kit which they had at edcamp in Philly. Piscataway Public Library has 3D printer. Electronic with robots, goal is use to do it yourself concept. It is so broad and unspecific.

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Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

And then also from an elementary standpoint, I had a teacher use it in lieu of … she used to have her students write personal narratives and then they would bind the book together as a classroom set and put it in the library. It was a more authentic way to showcase the student work than just having it one spot in the library.

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mauilibrarian2's 10 Nominations for the 2013 Edublogs Awards #eddies13

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

Best individual blog - One of the EdCamp Movement''s founders, Kristen Swanson , is in my exclusive Google+ MVP circle. Best library / librarian blog - Neverending Search. Here are a few other nomination lists to check out: The ASIDe Blog Borchardt Elementary Library A.T. And they have the neatest hangouts.

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If Ferris Bueller Was At Our School #savmp #KidsDeserveIt #PrincipalsInAction #edchat

Adam Welcome

Jon is Vice-Principal at Sandy Hill Elementary School and his blog is featured on EdWords and BAM Radio! Adam is Principal at Montair Elementary School and co-founder of Kids Deserve It. Here is how they are getting it done: Student Run EdCamps Yes, you read that correctly.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 And we also organized India''s first edcamp, EdcampMumbai.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The winners of this year’s Harold W McGraw Jr Prize in Education : Dr. Christine Cunningham, Founder and Director of Engineering is Elementary (EiE) at the Museum of Science; Dr. Sandy Shugart, President of Valencia College; and Chris Anderson, TED “curator.” Graduate students at American University have voted to unionize.