Perry Hewitt

OCTOBER 25, 2015

HUBweek 2015 is a wrap. ” – Andromeda Yelton , sharing big ideas and practical truths in Libraries: The Next Generation [ liveblog by David Weinberger ] [ video ]. ” – Benjamen Walker , in State of the Podcast 2015 [ video ]. .” Making robotics fly in Harvard Stadium with Hugo Van Vuuren.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In a recent edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, and Donna Burns, Technology Integrator, both from New Canaan High School in Connecticut, showcased the transformation of the NCHS library from a collection of used reference and biography books into a living, breathing makerspace. Redesigning the Space.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

MARCH 5, 2015

The official World Read Aloud Day 2015 is in the books. Eli showed a lego mindstorm robot that he put together right before the Skype. Our little bloggers sharing with @ OkleMiller and her K Ss for #WRAD15 [link] — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) March 04, 2015. link] — Donna Macdonald (@dsmacdonald) March 04, 2015.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The startup has raised about $13 million in funding, closing $8 million in Series B in December 2015. Books are one of the most essential resources used by teachers, but because so many of today’s school and classroom libraries have limited quantity and selection, it is becoming harder and harder to get kids excited about reading.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Ruth Valle Write Our World - Multicultural eBooks by Kids for Kids - Julie Carey, Founder 6:00 PM Developing Attitudes of Global Mindfulness: Linking Globalization with the Practices of Science - Jillian Wendt, Assistant Professor of Science Education Global Collaboration Ideas from Flat Connections - Toni Olivieri-Barton, Library Technology Educator (..)

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

OCTOBER 27, 2015

They often lead the work while I assist other students in the library or teach classes. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) October 27, 2015. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) October 27, 2015. We opened the basic version of Snap, and student tinkered with programming these robots with simple block coding.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2015

We paired this with an unveiling of our student designed mural and our Little Free Library. Robotics – Aaron. Little Free Library – Jenna. Not only did we present, we also created a comprehensive resource to go along with our presentation: Resources for the Inquiry Hub BCSSA 2015 Fall Conference Presentation.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2017

Here in the Pittsburgh region, educators from the Remake Learning Network —a coalition of more than 250 schools, universities, libraries, startups, nonprofits, museums—offer several hundred peer-led programs, including workshops, peer networks, one-on-one mentorship programs, and summer seminars.

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 13, 2019

Most people wouldn’t think of science as quirky, but if they’d witnessed a posse of orange, papier-maché robotic pumpkins racing down the hall at the Science Museum of Virginia (SMV), in Richmond, Virginia, they might re-think that image. Zainab Hassan, 20, first came to The Mix in 2015.

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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. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) January 29, 2015.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The sixth annual Global Education Conference , our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). We invite all to attend! A full listing of sessions is below. You're going to be blown away.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 23, 2015

In the summer of 2015, Chicago, Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C., In Dallas, for example, kids can intern at the mayor’s office , dissect owl pellets at the library, or program a virtual robot at RoboMind Academy. Thanks to support from the John D. and Catherine T. double as Cities of Learning (COL).

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

" Tagged on: July 18, 2017 Let Robots Teach American Schoolkids | Bloomberg → This is not a work of satire. Meanwhile, millions of American students trek to public libraries and fast-food restaurants to get online after school, or they go without—a problem known as the “homework gap.” wi.us, among other sources."

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 13, 2015

April 13th - April 27th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. Please share this newsletter with your friends and colleagues! Two Week Calendar Monday, April 13th at 8pm TL Virtual Cafe - #TLChat LIVE!

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

ENA delivers robust and reliable broadband, Wi-Fi/LAN, communication, and cloud services to K–12 schools, higher education institutions, and libraries across the nation. And, that makes access to adequate and reliable broadband even more important as the development of new technologies continues.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

In 2015, as the program was launching, I began to have in-depth conversations with emerging industry leaders in our community. Additionally, there will be programming for community members of all ages that takes place after school hours to develop skills such as printing, robotics, and design thinking for product development.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 23, 2015

Some have chosen topics like water, oxygen, food, shelter, robot exploration, and clothing. A small group of students came to me in the library. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) April 20, 2015. — Natural Machines (@NaturalMachines) April 20, 2015. — Natural Machines (@NaturalMachines) April 20, 2015.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 23, 2015

Some have chosen topics like water, oxygen, food, shelter, robot exploration, and clothing. A small group of students came to me in the library. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) April 20, 2015. — Natural Machines (@NaturalMachines) April 20, 2015. — Natural Machines (@NaturalMachines) April 20, 2015.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

MARCH 23, 2015

Since our library makerspace has been available, I’ve tried as much as possible to have it open for students to use for their own tinkering and making as well as for classes to use in collaboration with me in the library. There are also some independent projects woven in such as MaKey MaKey and Lego Robotics.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Duct tape has been the biggest area of excitement this week in #makerspace [link] — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) February 05, 2015. It has been a busy week in the #makerspace @ ilovethisclass [link] — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) February 05, 2015. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) February 2, 2015. Ss love it!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 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. We''re about to announce three additional conferences for 2015: Maker Education, Reinventing Higher Ed, and Digital Citizenship.

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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. — Flipgrid (@flipgrid) April 2, 2015. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) April 2, 2015. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) April 2, 2015. — Flipgrid (@flipgrid) April 2, 2015.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 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. Volunteer at Library 2.014. Big thanks and a special shout out to our Library 2.0 Student Entrepreneurship.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

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. Yannier was deeply affected by a robotics competition in her native Turkey, where she coached underprivileged students to build and program a wheelchair. I didn’t want that.”.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

I’ve been called the “Willy Wonka of school librarians” because I transformed our traditional library into what I call an IDEA (Innovation, Design, Engineering, and Art) Lab complete with flexible furniture, robotics, engineering tools, iPads, laptops, and sewing machines. Related content: How to transform a library into a makerspace.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 27, 2017

You had to search the library, ask the right teacher, or find some type of adult of expert who had knowledge and ask for guidance. Today’s learners can find out what a professor at MIT thinks about the future of robots…and we have to be ok that his/her answer if most likely much better than ours ever would be. They’ll thank you for it.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 3: Forty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Create online exercises (of 8 different types) or adapt from their library. Please contact me soon if you have an interest. Exploratorium.

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MindShift

JANUARY 10, 2017

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. Yannier was deeply affected by a robotics competition in her native Turkey, where she coached underprivileged students to build and program a wheelchair. I didn’t want that.”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example. million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

It also means fewer language programs, robotics labs and other enrichment opportunities that parents increasingly perceive as necessary. One “positive impression campaign” included social media posts pushed out by the San Francisco Public Library and the Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families.

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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. It is good!

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Sept 2015). Teachers Report Sharp Growth in Game-Based Learning by District Administration (July 2016) – reports that 48% of classroom teachers report using games in classroom instruction in 2015. These books are listed in alphabetical order and are part of my personal library at home. Health Games for Change.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire’s self-paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full-time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part-timers from brick-and-mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte. Her parents agreed. That’s the norm right now.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

I got my first taste of "making" in April 2015, when I attended a session on makerspaces at South Dakota's Technology and Innovation in Education conference. I also knew creating such a space could be pricey, especially when you start talking about robots, advanced software and 3D printers. Every school’s makerspace is unique.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

.” Via Bookriot : “On Wednesday, August 23, the city council of Escondido, California voted, 3 to 2, to move forward with plans to hand their public library over to the private, for-profit company Library Systems and Services.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 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. Library 2.014 on YouTube. The great majority of these events are free to attend. Computational thinking is essential to STEM.

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