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As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. In addition to this partnership, assessors were recruited from national library leaders participating in the Lilead Fellows program.
For example, I had to assess “over the shoulder” by looking at what students were doing. Also, I’m able to easily assess and share their work in AR. I’ve found it works better if you have some flat surfaces around, but it will work anywhere Start designing Inside 3D bear are a variety of libraries that you can use.
Assessing making and tinkering. The risks of using reflection as your only tool for assessing making. 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 MakerMovement to classrooms worldwide.
This fantastic addition to your class lets students create audience-facing works for authentic assessment that can also be keepsakes from their year in your classroom. Here’s a class library for an elementary classroom. Kids want an audience, and Book Creator for Chrome gives us that.
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. It can be choice in their assessment. Well, now we can all use Book Creator in our classrooms using the Chrome web browser. This is great news! It can be choice in the timeframe.
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For ideas for librarians and teachers doing it well, see Creating a Student Centered Library Where Kids Love to Learn (with Micki Uppena), Paul Solarz and His Student Centered Classroom , or What to Buy For Your Makerspace with Chad Lehman, Vicki: Well, Aaron Mauer is someone you should definitely follow. It’s OK to have confines.
Take a look at the library and get set to Make! Science Toy Maker – This really is a site for people who like to roll up their sleeves and make science toys and projects. Edutopia Makers Area – Take a moment to discuss, watch,and browse through amazing topics and possibilities. I enjoy learning from all of you.
But, there is NOT just one right way to do library. But should a formal makerspace need to be a part of every school library? . At conferences, librarians share with me that their administrators insist they devote significant library real estate to 3D printing and a variety of other maker equipment.
Using a completely adaptive learning engine and technology-enhanced assessments, UpSmart provides the right level of instruction and practice on each topic for each student. Ed-tech company Workbench and Maryland’s network of public libraries have partnered to launch an online maker space for libraries throughout the state.
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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