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How a Middle School Library Promotes Maker Learning for All Students

Digital Promise

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. We are excited to share their story as the second in our series of Maker Promise videos.

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How to Redesign the K–12 Media Center

EdTech Magazine

When classroom and media center design is “driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning experiences for students,” it can move teaching practices forward, Tom Murray, the director of innovation for Future Ready Schools, recently told EdTech. . Consult Teachers on Classroom Needs.

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SLIDE: data, interactive tools, and an equity wake-up call (Part 1)

NeverEndingSearch

Despite decades of research consistently showing positive correlations between high-quality programs and achievement, patterns suggest, for today’s children and for children to come, a school library-rich future is, or potentially will not be, evenly distributed. The study is led by project director Debra E.

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Digital Experiential Learning: 7 Steps to Transform Ordinary Classroom Activities

Edsurge

Studies show up to a 75 percent improvement in retention with experiential learning scenarios. Actually, it’s 2022, and they are sitting in Debbie Venteicher and Erin Stanley’s American Studies class, gathered around a device and collaboratively working to complete a digital breakout created with Genially. There he is!” Right there!”

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How Do You Recover From the Longest School Year? You Rest, Relax, and Then You Recharge

Edsurge

Each summer for the past several years, our staff has gathered for a book study. And “ Leading from the Library: Help Your School Community Thrive in the Digital Age ” by Shannon McClintock Miller and Bill Bass. The latter, I’m digging into as part of the Future Ready Librarians Summer Book Club.

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4 tips to make your media center renovation a success

eSchool News

The existing library featured solid oak desks and shelves, which had served our school well when students generally only came to the media center to study or read. Related content: A Future Ready library opportunity. Fixed in place, that desk dominated the space as soon as you walked into the media center.

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Vote for Digital Promise in the 2019 SXSW EDU PanelPicker!

Digital Promise

Have you ever heard a new research study that contradicts the study you learned about just last month? Have you ever read conclusions of a study and after all of the cautions, you have no idea if anything was learned at all? Libraries as Maker Magnets. What happens in a Future Ready Library?

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