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8 tips to help create and sustain a makerspace

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Why the maker movement? You’re all makers–you produce things each day,” Smith said. Leonardo DaVinci was a maker. People who want to make things and share those ideas and creations, Smith said.

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Resource: Digital Promise Adds Professional Services

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The coaches are a nationally-recognized network of forward-leaning K-12 leaders, members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools. They are superintendents, chief technology officers and curriculum leaders with hands-on experience implementing digital learning in their districts and can help educators build leadership capacity.

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Maker Programs Strive to Reach All Students

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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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Future Ready Schools heralds school librarians as leaders

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Through Future Ready Librarians, school librarians will be better equipped to support teachers in their transition to a digital learning environment while themselves becoming more future ready.”. “Similarly, librarians are now playing central roles in school leadership and working daily with students, teachers, and administrators.

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Don’t miss the latest STEM, policy and ed-tech news

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While traditional field trips continue to offer opportunities to create memorable learning environments for students of all ages, a new wave of technologies have created new, virtual field trip experiences. Dremel 3D printer fuels Maker Movement.

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6 STEAM tinkering tools for the holidays

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Inspired by the Maker Movement, this JoyLabz created invention kit for all ages combines computer programming and hands-on maker tools limited only by imagination. Makey Makey. Make some magic this holiday season.

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Tom Mullaney is a Digital Learning Integration Designer for the San Francisco Unified School District. This has been fantastic! Tom: You’re welcome! Contact us about the show: [link]. Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford kymberlimulford@gmail.com. Bio as submitted.

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