Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

Next, the traditional library space was repurposed as Duquesne Media Central, outfitted with flexible seating, new technologies, and a recording studio. The Maker Movement is important because it gives students things to look forward to when they come to class,” Breanna, a current sixth grade student, excitedly explained.

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User Generated Education

JULY 7, 2016

Maker Movement: The maker movement, as we know, is the umbrella term for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers, a convergence of computer hackers and traditional artisans. Why the Maker Movement Is Important to America’s Future ). The Maker Movement Is About the Economy, Stupid ).

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 21, 2017

Maker Movement. Many schools are creating maker spaces or “ Fab Labs ” so students have a space and place to invent. Some libraries are putting these in a Learning Commons. (See Some students will choose hands on activities while others will embrace technology. But they choose!

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The grassroots Maker Movement has, and continues to, impact entrepreneurship, education, economic and workforce development, manufacturing, community revitalization and technology inclusion in the U.S.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Maker Movement: The maker movement, as we know, is the umbrella term for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers, a convergence of computer hackers and traditional artisans. Why the Maker Movement Is Important to America’s Future ). The Maker Movement Is About the Economy, Stupid ).

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MindShift

AUGUST 15, 2017

In recent years, libraries have broadened their scope of offerings to the local community to involve more making activities like 3-D printing and sewing. Some libraries even have a facilitator for maker projects. So, she set out to build a bridge between making and reading by creating maker activities for children’s books.

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The Web20Classroom

MARCH 19, 2017

Educators are turning towards ideas like the Maker Movement and tinkering to foster creativity and innovation in their classrooms and to get their kids thinking and doing more. They also have other resources like kits you can buy and leads on Maker Faires in your area. The point isn't really what is in the space.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This post is dedicated to Technology. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, Makerspace, Inquiry, Computational Thinking, and the 4 C’s. Technology – STEM Resources. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2017

Sylvia Libow Martinez is a co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering the Classroom helping teachers bring the exciting tools and technology of the Maker Movement to classrooms worldwide. Previously, Sylvia was President of Generation YES, evangelizing student leadership through modern technology.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 7, 2015

TeachThought Library: 10 Learning Models & Frameworks. Self-directed learning, the Maker Movement, mobile learning, education technology integration and more are all relatively new, and have a variety of perspectives that can be taken in examining them and what they enable or change. by TeachThought Staff.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching in augmented reality (AR) for the past several years has been a bit of a challenge, in my opinion, as is often the case with new technologies. 3DBear includes other 3D libraries that let students add, arrange, and create digital items in your classroom.

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 13, 2019

When we have testing in our Library, I put all our Makerspace stuff on an AV cart and roll it into our server room. You can take baby steps into the Maker Movement. I'm not 100% sold, even after 7 years of talking about the Maker Movement, that it's something that's here to stay and not just a fad. Just like new!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

Aligned with the maker movement—which focuses on using hands-on activities like building, sewing, assembling and computer programming for learning—the kits provide a foundation that teachers can use for guided projects both in and out of the classroom. I used all of those materials to build our maker lab,” says Howell.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 19, 2017

We're excited to announce our third Library 2.017 mini-conferences: "Makerspaces," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 11th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). There has been a lot of talk about makerspaces in libraries over the past four years. and at the Library 2.0

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 16, 2017

Today Josh Stumpenhorst @stumpteacher is directing a library revolution and evolution to Learning Commons at his school. And yes, they’ll be flying drones in the library! ” He also discusses the importance of literature and creativity in the library. Why Reinvent the Library? Let’s do this!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Join this free Library Journal webcast covering the highlights of each one and offering key takeaways.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

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 A former high school librarian, Ray has been nationally recognized for transforming the role of the school librarian into a technological innovator in schools.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Library makerspaces, including members of the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network, offer students a chance to design, tinker, and build critical thinking skills. Libraries are all about inquiry,” says Valerie Jopeck, a former librarian and current education specialist for a large public school district in Virginia.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2018

As a legal fight simmered this week over the legality of creating working guns on 3D printers , libraries and other groups offering access to the technology faced questions from local officials and reporters : Can community makerspaces now be turned into impromptu weapons factories?

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 5, 2019

I am beyond elated – our PreK-6 elementary school received monies, through our district’s Computer Science Resolution 2025, to create a STEAM (science, technology, arts, math) makerspace. A few of use spent the past few weeks rearranging our library so that one side contains our books and the other our STEAM materials.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 29, 2015

SPRK Lightning Lab hub uses CWIST’s online platform to offer a free virtual community that allows educators, students, makers and parents to communicate about their projects. They can then log into the website and browse a library of activities and share programs with the community. That’s what we know, what we love, and who we are.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Announcing the 2015 Student Technology Conference. The great majority of these events are free to attend.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At the end of every year since I founded Hack Education in 2010, I’ve reviewed what I think are the most important and influential trends in education technology. This is about the stories we’re told about education, about technology, and about education technology. (No

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2017

Many people associate the Maker Movement with ‘stuff’ like 3D printers, but in my opinion, this isn’t what pushes children outside of their comfort zone, it is that opportunity for open-ended exploration that is key. Laura Fleming ( @LFlemingEDU ) has been an educator in the state of New Jersey for 15 years.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 20, 2017

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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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

It doesn’t have to work , mind you, but it does have to include plausible technology. One requirement is that if students have seen the technology in action, it’s disqualified from being the topic of their video — a commercial pretending that their invented technology actually exists. The focus was on learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

Each nominee and nominator will be entered to win a classroom technology package. She’s helped the students find books in the library, and she has also helped them learn some ways to navigate ways to share their knowledge through Google Slides or Wixie. Then they even started to go the library and find books for their friends.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 19, 2015

This is a GREAT week for library and learning conversations! While all the details of the 50+ conference sessions, keynotes, and distinguished speaker presentations are on the Library 2.015 conference site , a quick listing is below to get you thinking about which sessions you might be able to attend live. Great learning opportunity!”

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As a teacher, you can get started with a library of 40 books as part of their free version – go to coolcatteacher.com/bookcreator to get started now. Jeff: Ah, yeah… So I’m using Minecraft Education Edition in my technology classroom with my students. It’s all about technology. and technology guru (obviously)!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 26, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Library 2.014 - October 8th + 9th. We are gearing up for another amazing year of the Library 2.014 Conference.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2017

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. Reading Horizons announced its upcoming webcast, Dyslexia: Best Practices for Instruction and Intervention.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I plan on providing sessions that integrate PBL with STEM, Makers, Differentiated Instruction, Inquiry, Deeper Learning, and Technology Integration. It can be in a dedicated space, or room, or in the library.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 18, 2016

Welcome to this fifth post in a series that brings STEM, STEAM, and Maker Space together with Project Based Learning and proper technology integration in the classroom. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. Check out my Booking Page.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Also, people have used it to create, like we’ve had a summer technology institute, and we’ve created our schedules for that institute within FlipSnack and then shared the FlipSnack book out. Parents couldn’t really look at it unless they were in the library for parent-teacher conferences or whatever. Try FlipSnack! Bio as submitted.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 27, 2015

You’re in the library! As the great-granddaughter of a librarian, I was brought up to know that the quiet of the library was sacred space. In the media centers of the Cherokee County, Georgia schools, where I train as an instructional technology specialist, quiet is no longer the chief value. Fast-forward 30 years. license.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Volunteer at Library 2.014. Big thanks and a special shout out to our Library 2.0 Student Entrepreneurship.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Halverson and Sheridan tease out the complex nature of the maker movement in education (2014). They define it through three lenses: “making as a set of activities, makerspaces as communities of practice, and makers as identities of participation” (501). The maker movement in education. Foreign Aff. , Halverson, E.

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