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The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 26, 2020
Resources Mentioned in the Show Epic book of Web Tools and Apps The Digital Librarians Survival Toolkit Kristina Holzweiss – Bio as Submitted Kristina A. Holzweiss is a high school educational technology enrichment specialist on Long Island, New York. If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF.
A Principal's Reflections
JANUARY 4, 2015
This phenomenon trickled into schools as the Maker Movement became more popular and natural connections to learning became quite evident. To begin to understand the educational value of making we must look at the roots of this movement. Possibilities include the library/media center, classrooms, or a common area of the school.
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 30, 2017
Today’s college students are spending more time than ever in public and campus libraries. According to a recent Pew Research Report , millennials are most likely to have visited a public library in the past year compared to any other generation. In a report that analyzed the state of the maker movement in 40 U.S.
eSchool News
JULY 18, 2016
Librarians in the Shawnee Mission School District are making way for “ the maker movement ,” and some worry where that story is going. But at least four Shawnee Mission grade schools have hired “innovation specialists” to run their libraries when fall classes open. No mention of “books,” “literature” nor “shelves.”.
Educator Innovator
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
At the Millvale Community Library in Pennsylvania, toddlers and kids gather weekly to work on creative projects. On those days the library morphs into a “makerspace,” overflowing with sewing supplies, circuitry, yarn, and electronics. For several years YOUmedia has operated “learning labs” in libraries across the country.
The CoolCatTeacher
APRIL 21, 2017
Maker Movement. Many schools are creating maker spaces or “ Fab Labs ” so students have a space and place to invent. Some libraries are putting these in a Learning Commons. (See Some students will choose hands on activities while others will embrace technology. But they choose!
MindShift
AUGUST 15, 2017
In recent years, libraries have broadened their scope of offerings to the local community to involve more making activities like 3-D printing and sewing. Some libraries even have a facilitator for maker projects. So, she set out to build a bridge between making and reading by creating maker activities for children’s books.
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