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Summer Reading Online

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International Children’s Digital Library The ICDL offers over 4,600 digital children’s books in over 59 languages that exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages, and ideas. Books are made available from a variety of sources including the Library of Congress. Books are read on the website or a tablet.

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

Makerspaces — a key element of STEM education — are popping up in classrooms and libraries across the U.S. Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines.

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Sphero, LittleBits and Other Robots Bring Technology to Life

EdTech Magazine

Now the school has about 20 models, along with apps students can use on their tablets or Chromebooks to learn the basics of programming. Sixth-graders get acquainted with the Sphero at the library during lunch or after school. Literally, all you need is a tablet or Chromebook, then just plug it in and charge it,” he says.

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New Sora Showcase Turns Any Touchscreen Display into Kiosk for Student Discovery of Digital Books

eSchool News

Students can browse their school’s collection of ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines, enjoy samples of titles, and generate QR codes to easily borrow titles in the Sora app. Compatible hardware includes any touchscreen device or monitor (iPad mini-sized tablet or larger) running Windows 10, Android or iOS. www.overdrive.com/schools.

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How Modern Learning Environments Support Numerous Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

The two-story building also includes a makerspace and comfortable chairs in the library, a large courtyard with a covered patio that can serve as an outdoor class­room, and an Innovation Station that houses a computer lab, 3D printers, a video and audio production ­studio and a workshop where students build things. It’s exciting.”.

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Popular Ebooks and Audiobooks Keep Students Reading All Summer Long

eSchool News

The Sora Sweet Reads titles are provided by 21 publishers and divided into elementary, middle and high school sections. Educators and students can also leverage valuable elementary , middle and high school resources for Sora Sweet Reads titles from TeachingBooks.net , the leading K-12 reading resources site.

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Make This the Year That You Take On Ambitious IT Projects in Your School

EdTech Magazine

“It works well for giant projects like museum displays, science fair projects, but it also works well for weekly vocabulary assignments,” says Robyn Tanksley, third-grade teacher at the Sexton Mountain Elementary School in Beaverton, in a video about Adobe Spark. . Experiment with new tech too.

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