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Librarians at the Forefront of “Future Ready”

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Librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become “future ready.” The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) launched its Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative in October 2014 with the aim of leveraging technology and connectivity to personalize and transform learning.

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Readers Recommend

The Daring Librarian

But this can work at any time in a school library or ELA classroom. I was inspired by Librarian tiff because she also does this in her school library and created this amazing graphic below, made it Creative Commons, and gave it out to the world! Future Ready Teacher Librarian & Tech Leader. Effective. Cheers dears!

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Michelle Luhtala Wins AASL Social Media Superstars Award

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edWeb is so excited to congratulate Michelle Luhtala, department chair at New Canaan High School Library in Connecticut, for being selected as a 2017 AASL Social Media Superstars winner ! I met Michelle Luhtala at the CoSN Conference in March 2010–seven years ago. ” These are not your average webinars – they are edWebinars!

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Makerspace for Little or Nothing

The Daring Librarian

When we have testing in our Library, I put all our Makerspace stuff on an AV cart and roll it into our server room. Ask your kids what they want and brainstorm how to bring it to the school! Say you're trying for 50 or 100 - put a decorated cardboard box outside your Library or Classroom for donations! Ask for donations.

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Reimagining Human Capital to Support the Needs of School Districts

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Research from the American Center for Progress reveals that Teacher Preparation Enrollment Programs declined by almost 44% from 2010-2018 with enrollment rates plunging from 940,520 to 604,264. How to Start the Process. Multiple research studies demonstrate that having quality teachers in the classroom with students makes a difference.

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Makerspace Starter Kit Updated

The Daring Librarian

Three years ago I shared with you what I was buying to boost our Makerspace area using four empty Library study carrels that no longer held desktop Macs. Our MHMS Makerspace How it works: Kids can come in before school, during lunch, or when they've finished their work to explore, craft, and create in the Library Media Center.

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

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These machines are all intertwined with how we imagine the future of intelligence and knowledge, along with the future of the institutions traditionally responsible for these things – namely schools, universities, libraries, museums. The creation of the library.)