Journey to the student-centered makerspace Journey to the student-centered makerspace By Abbe Waldron February 5th, 2015 Explore a collaborative makerspace where students design the space and take charge of their learning Whether you know it or not, your students are already making things outside of school. So I learned when my school, Wamogo Regional High, decided to harness this expression productively by designing a student-centered makerspace for collaboration, creation, and problem-solving. As we designed our makerspace, it was important to consider how our program would fit with both the established core values of our school and our 21st century learning expectations, such as information literacy, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and community and civic responsibility. I met with as many students as possible at first and created surveys to collect information on their interests. Next page: Turn students into mentor leaders
SLS Tech Retreat - 2016 - pafa.net – pafa.net April 9, 2016, Carey Institute, Rensselaerville, NY Links for the session: Lots more reports: Some Reading & Resources School Library Annual Reports: Connecting the Dots Between Your Library And Student Learning – Jennifer Lagarde’s blog post about annual reports.School Libraries and Student Achievement – Infographic showing summary of research connecting school libraries to improved student test scores. Could you gather any local data about any of these factors that show similar results? Tips for Getting Your Report Read Report Often: Don’t leave it all till the end of the year. Examples using a variety of presentation platforms Google Docs: FPG Library Media Memo – An attractive, easy to read monthly Newsletter done with Google Docs. Tools to Explore Use graphics to highlight great quotes and draw readers further into your report. GetStencil – Highlight text on a web page, click the browser bookmarklet and quickly create a quote. Image Editing, Photo Sources, etc.