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Future Ready Schools heralds school librarians as leaders

eSchool News

The FRS initiative helps district leaders recognize the potential of digital tools and align necessary technologies with instructional goals to support teaching and learning. “In The Future Ready Librarians initiative will help define what that leadership can be.”.

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Maker Programs Strive to Reach All Students

Educator Innovator

Through training and outreach, maker programs aim for greater diversity among future innovators. The maker movement is everywhere it seems. Kids tinkering with sewing machines or laser cutters, designing their own cookie cutters to “print” in a 3D-printer at libraries, museums, maker camps, or classrooms across the country.

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11 online summer camps to keep kids learning while school’s out

eSchool News

You’ll need to shell out for books if you can’t find them at the library. The folks behind the maker movement offer weekly camps based on themes such as Far Out Future and Flight. For each theme, you get book suggestions (for all reading levels), discussion guides, hands-on activities, and related sites and apps.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Iris Lapinski - CEO, CDI Apps for Good - "Apps for Good - Growing a new generation of problem solvers and makers" Dale Dougherty - Founder, President, and CEO, Maker Media, Inc.; Cantwell, Instructional Services Librarian (Asst.

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A Strong Case for Uncommon Learning

Fractus Learning

Regardless of what standards you are accountable for, uncommon learning initiatives with and without technology can be integrated seamlessly to foster deeper learning ” (Sheninger, xvii). Digital Learning Across the Curriculum. This chapter focuses on strong pedagogy for today’s learner. Makerspaces.

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A Strong Case for Uncommon Learning

Fractus Learning

Regardless of what standards you are accountable for, uncommon learning initiatives with and without technology can be integrated seamlessly to foster deeper learning ” (Sheninger, xvii). Digital Learning Across the Curriculum. This chapter focuses on strong pedagogy for today’s learner. Makerspaces.