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8 tips to help create and sustain a makerspace

eSchool News

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

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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Future Ready Schools heralds school librarians as leaders

eSchool News

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

eSchool News

The folks behind the maker movement offer weekly camps based on themes such as Far Out Future and Flight. Some of the camps have online counselors who interact with kids. Sign up to get notified of the latest offerings. Make: Online. Free, but materials cost extra; age 12 and up.

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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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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

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Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. Something about "learning engineers". Amazon got into the lesson-plans-for-sale business , launching a program called Ignite (not to be confused with its controversial lesson-plans-for-free business, Ignite). 2U did not have such a great year.