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Futurizing the Stacks: How Makerspaces Can Modernize College Libraries

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Today’s college students are spending more time than ever in public and campus libraries. According to a recent Pew Research Report , millennials are most likely to have visited a public library in the past year compared to any other generation. In a report that analyzed the state of the maker movement in 40 U.S.

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5 Ideas for Friday: Ideas for Teachers In and Out of School to Try Today

The CoolCatTeacher

(See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.). Lots of resources are out there — at your local library, museum, art council or an online or face to face conference. (I 2 – Wander Through a Library (or Amazon free titles). 5 IDEAS FOR THOSE WHO AREN’T TEACHING RIGHT NOW.

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Sylvia Martinez: 3 Mistakes Teachers Make About Tinkering (and more)

The CoolCatTeacher

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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5 Ideas for Friday: Ideas for Teachers In and Out of School to Try Today

The CoolCatTeacher

(See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.). Lots of resources are out there — at your local library, museum, art council or an online or face to face conference. (I 2 – Wander Through a Library (or Amazon free titles). 5 IDEAS FOR THOSE WHO AREN’T TEACHING RIGHT NOW.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Two Great Library Events - GlobalEdCon Deadline - UNC's Amazing World View

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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. Register here.

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Inventionland: A Transformational Design Course

The CoolCatTeacher

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. Well, now we can all use Book Creator in our classrooms using the Chrome web browser. Make books, send the link to parents and even include audio and video. This is great news!

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Conference Volunteering - Libraries! - Google Excitement - Common Core Film

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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.