Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 30, 2015

Our library makerspace has been a bustling place over the past few weeks. I make sure to put an appointment on the library calendar to introduce them to the space and set some parameters of what they can and cannot do. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) January 28, 2015. Tinkering leads to a student made microphone. xpDm7yhs0q.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 3, 2015

The biggest news was that 2 members of the Flipgrid and Vidku team from Minneapolis flew down to do a video in our library. We are on a field trip with @plemmonsa and his students from Barrow Elementary School. — Flipgrid (@flipgrid) April 2, 2015. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) April 2, 2015. Then, we waited.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Two Forest Grove Elementary School students show off their block structures for Nesra Yannier to photograph during an experiment. PITTSBURGH — At Forest Grove Elementary School, along the Ohio River just northwest of Pittsburgh, the Rust Belt is giving way to educational innovation. Photo: Jill Barshay. Photo: Jill Barshay.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. This virtual conference will be hosted in Adobe Connect and registration is free for librarians and leaders of libraries.

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MindShift

JANUARY 10, 2017

PITTSBURGH — At Forest Grove Elementary School, along the Ohio River just northwest of Pittsburgh, the Rust Belt is giving way to educational innovation. In a windowless room in the library, first- and second-graders experiment with a strange teaching device that’s half computer and half wooden play table. I didn’t want that.”.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As an elementary educator for most of my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with a variety of learners—from inner-city students in North Carolina to university-level students in Chicago—but I found my true calling as the librarian at Hubbard Woods Elementary in Winnetka, Illinois. Create a dream binder.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. Lau Elementary. The same goes for middle and high school options.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

In 2014, I wrote about strategies for edtech success in the new school year , and in 2015, I wrote about edtech teaching trends for the new school year. The students at Algonquin Regional High School helped their local towns with tech support nights at local libraries.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via Bklyner.com : “ Brooklyn Public Library and Bard College to Offer Free College Degree Programs in 2018.” ” “In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses,” [says founder] Rebekah Neumann. ” The Business of Student Loans.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” The University of Wisconsin at Madison plans to close 22 libraries and create six “hubs” in their stead, says The Wisconsin State Journal.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. The Pew survey shows dramatic downward shifts in Republicans’ opinions on higher ed just since 2015.)

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