Volume 7 | Issue 4
Know & Go Updates @your Library Updates & Reminders Updates to Parkway’s Hour of Code Site tinyurl.com/pkwycoding In preparation for Hour of Code the site has newly added resources. The site originally set up by Melissa Biehl is a repository of resources and information that supports coding in the library. As always if you have something to contribute, send it to Kim L.
Updates to Parkway’s Site tinyurl.com/pkwycreates In the spring of 2018 Shannon Burger came to Library Services with a vision for a website that would house creation resources in terms of copyright friendly images, videos, and audio. Since then Library Services has been working on the site to include creation tools that support student learning and advocates for student privacy.
Library Links On the Library Services Resource Hub website at bit.ly/pkwylibhub you will find: ● The many resource websites created to support teaching and learning ● Library Program - guiding documents ● All the helpful links from previous newsletters ● Librarian Talking Points ● Makerspace approaches, purchasing, and reflection survey
Curates Digital Resources & Tools Helping students become Knowledge Constructors through the curation of information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions (ISTE Student Standards 3C).
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What does it mean to be librarian in the digital age?
Empowers Students as Creators Create Opportunities for Making Throughout the Year There are several ways to incorporate making in the library, such as bring in the out of doors, collaborative challenges, and connecting with the curriculum. Take a look at these ideas. Enjoy the Outdoors Take advantage of late summer and early fall weather by exploring outdoor maker learning using natural materials. Using nature as a way to inspire maker learning gives students ownership over the learning that takes place there. Let your students lead the way — every outdoor environment is unique, providing one-of-a-kind opportunities for your students to engage. ●
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Explore the school grounds and look for found materials. What can be found in your region that could be the start of a maker project? Leaves, Flowers, Pebbles or stones, Pine cones, Shells, Sand, Sticks, Soil Take your maker notebooks outside and use the environment as a springboard into student sketching or writing. Narrative writing or poetry can be inspired by nature right outside of your school walls. Look for ways to improve your outdoor space through making experiences. What can your students design and create to enhance the outdoor space? Ask students to generate a list of ideas and see what they come up with. From wind chimes to rock gardens, students can create interactive maker experiences or design colorful components for the space.
Collaborative Challenges Involve your community with schoolwide maker challenges. With a focus on student collaboration and team building, design challenges can be one way to engage the entire school in developing creative problem-solving and communication skills. Looking for some challenge ideas? ● Check out “3-Word Design Challenges.” ● Create an account on Demco MakerHub, which features hundreds of free projects. ● Check out this blog post: “7 Ways to Use StickTogether® Mosaic Posters in Your Library.” ● Try the design briefs provided by the Virginia Children’s Engineering Council. ● Curiosity Machine also shares design challenges using simple materials at home or at school. Connecting with the Curriculum Once you’ve tapped into their interest and gotten students engaged in making, look for ways to integrate making into your curriculum throughout the year. Get started with this post: “How to Connect Making to the Curriculum,” and check out these additional resources: ● “Practical Strategies to Connect Making and Literacy” ● “Lessons That Connect Making and Children’s Literature” ● “Why Maker Learning Works for Our English Language Learners” ● “How to Define Success in Your Makerspace” ● “How Cabot School District Boosted STEM Learning Outcomes with the Demco Maker Collection” See the entire article at ideas.demco.com/blog
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Empowers Students as Creators Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.
Got Makerspace $$$ to Spend? Try Collaborative Tape Art, The PiktoTape Method Building Communities, Designing, and Collaborating in K-12 Discover the fun and engaging process of drawing together with tape. Rooted in the power of collaboration, the PiktoTape Method (developed by the street artists of the Tape Art Crew) motivates students to develop innovative solutions to design challenges. Build confidence and create new and uniquely inclusive ways for your class to work together creating artwork that explores image-making at its most epic. PiktoTape gives communities the opportunity to draw on any wall! Its low-adhesive qualities make every space a canvas that can be used to make mural after mural after mural. The power of making with PiktoTape is matched only by the power of removing the work together. Make big art! For many participants PiktoTape will allow them to experiment making large-scale murals and installations for the first time. Harness the energy of large groups to completely transform spaces both indoors and out. PiktoTape makes it possible for students and communities to make together like never before! The wide range of solutions for making art with tape from drawing to pattern-making to texture to sculpture means that any maker feels at home in a collaborative PiktoTape project. Collaborative Tape Art & DRAW KIT Combo (book and tape) $100 at davisart.com Sample lesson: grades 6-12 Watch the video of this experience in action
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Builds Instructional Partnerships Model for colleagues the identification, exploration, evaluation, curation and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning. (ISTE Student Standards 2C).
Boost Productivity in G Suite Apps In Google Drive, there is a new Priority homepage that surfaces your most relevant documents, and customizable Workspaces Priority ● ● ●
Priority appears first in the navigation drawer over My Files or shared drives It has to be manually set by users to become the default homepage At the top of this new Priority section is a scrollable carousel that shows items that were recently commented on, edited, or have share requests
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Drive automatically groups together files that you often open in tandem Machine Learning is leveraged to intelligently list related documents, like files for weekly meetings and active projects. Google will suggest Workspaces, with users able to manually add files by right-clicking to access Add to Workspace You can also easily create your own groupings
What does it mean to be librarian in the digital age?
Builds Instructional Partnerships Model for colleagues the identification, exploration, evaluation, curation and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning. (ISTE Student Standards 2C).
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What does it mean to be librarian in the digital age?
Builds Instructional Partnerships Model for colleagues the identification, exploration, evaluation, curation and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning. (ISTE Student Standards 2C).
Ten Question to ask when Creating a STEM (Maker) Culture in Schools As you know the library is the space where we, as librarians, support creativity, discovery, and exploration. This domain of learning supports various types of cultures in our schools. Some buildings focus on novel engineering, the design process, social emotional learning, or makecare (community work). No matter what your purpose and approach is to STEM or makerspace the questions shared in the October 2019, Techleanring.com magazine were designed to help plan or determine next steps in the STEM or maker journey. Below are the questions that have been modified to help us reflect as a community and look through a library lens at the maker movement. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
What does STEM or maker program mean to students and teachers in the culture of your school? Are there any unintended results as we emphasize the maker or STEM movement? How would you building, district, and community define Makerspace of STEM? What does a lesson look like when making or STEM is infused? What does makerspace or STEM physically and pedagogically look like? What modifications to the daily schedule would make a difference in terms of STEM or maker programming? How do you assess maker or STEM success, maybe by the 4C’s, soft skill acquisition, or specific standard? What qualities do students acquire through making or STEM before leaving your school or program? What outside partnerships (connections) have been made to support authentic learning with STEM or making? How do you sustain momentum for STEM or makerspace programming?
To read the entire article and and see the original questions go to www.techlearning.com
What does it mean to be librarian in the digital age?
Designs Collaborative Spaces Provides flexible spaces that promote inquiry, creativity, collaboration, and community.
How Library Furniture, Space Design, and Technology Support Informal Learning Informal learning is learning outside the traditional boundaries of education. It stands in contrast to formal learning, which includes a curriculum, an instructor, and an assessment. Libraries are places of both knowledge consumption and knowledge creation. But how do you create spaces that foster informal learning? You should consider three key components when designing spaces that promote informal learning: furniture, space design, and technology. Furniture ● Flexible furniture: Help to promote informal learning by allowing library users to create spaces that meet differing needs. ● Seating options: Include a variety of seating options so users can choose a spot to work where they are most comfortable. ● Work surfaces: Include a variety of work surfaces as well so that users can choose to sit or stand while using library resources. ● Collaboration tools: Inspire spontaneous ideation and collaboration with a variety of whiteboard surfaces, including dry-erase tables, mobile whiteboards, and dry-erase room dividers. Get ideas and inspiration for flexible furniture, seating, and collaboration areas: ● Flexible Seating Idea Gallery ● Active Furniture Idea Gallery ● Collaboration Solutions Idea Gallery Space Design ● Adaptable Spaces: Create spaces you can use for multiple events. Some spaces have constraints, but the more adaptable the space can be, the more informal learning can occur. Look for furnishings that can pull double-duty or that can be easily rearranged by users without your help. ● Quiet Spaces: Many individuals come to the library to consume knowledge. They visit to read books, browse magazines, look at genealogy records, spend time on the internet, and more. Therefore, your space needs to be designed so individuals can consume knowledge in informal, comfortable settings. Provide quiet places for individuals and groups, and design space for reflection and studying. ● Creation Spaces: Knowledge creation is also something many individuals have come to expect from libraries. Users visit the library to design objects in the makerspace, and they attend workshops to learn how to sew, write poetry, and cook. Support these informal learning pursuits by creating a makerspace or workshop space and building spaces for collaboration and communication. Get ideas and inspiration for adaptable spaces, comfortable areas, and creation spaces: ● Library Furniture for Multifunctional Spaces Idea Gallery ● 5 Products That Help You Power Up Your Learning Space ● How to Start a Makerspace Guide ● Demco Learning Commons, Award-Winning EDspaces Design ● Sioux Center Middle and High School, IA ● Natrona County Public Library, WY by Dr. Lauren Hays Complete article at www.demcointeriors.com
What does it mean to be librarian in the digital age?
Leads Beyond the Library Educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student and teacher empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning.
Talking with Community About the Use of Technology Many time we talk with community on tech-related topics like student privacy, online safety and acceptable use policies, but as librarians and leaders we also need to advocate with our community about how tech is transforming learning. It’s time to transform the conversation and focus on the positive learning experiences technology enables. And it starts when you share the exciting and engaging ways students are using tech in the classroom.That’s why ISTE created Your Edtech Conversation Guide, a free resource to help you include the entire school community in the learning process and fuel their interest in what students are doing in the library and beyond.From the ISTE resource a shorter, librarian focused Talking Points flyer was created for quick reference. Check out Talking Edtech with your Community. This document shares tips, questions for creating your library story around edtech, and opportunities for communicating with the community.
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#ParkwayReads - Literacy Inspires and supports the reading lives of both learners and teachers. Creates inclusive collections that acknowledge and celebrate diverse experiences and provide instructional opportunities to empower learners as effective users and creators of information and ideas.
About the Teens' Top Ten #yalsaTTT The Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on the Thursday of National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. 2019 Teens' Top Ten Titles The top ten titles are as follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
#MurderTrending by Gretchen McNeil Wildcard by Marie Lu. *The Cruel Prince by Holly Black. Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang American Panda by Gloria Chao Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
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Story Time from Space! “What you cannot imagine, you cannot do” Now imagine Astronauts on the Space Station reading stories to and conducting science experiments for the children of Earth as the world rotates below. Imagine no more…it’s Story Time from Space!
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Personalized Professional Learning Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.
Education Twitter Chats Worth Your Time - Created and Organized by ISTE For educators who thrive on connections, Twitter chats may be the perfect form of professional development. They're free. They focus on just the topic you need. They happen regularly. And they give you access to an instant community, complete with networking opportunities, emotional support and the chance to give back. Participating in chats even aligns with the ISTE Standards for Educators because they allow you to improve your practice by learning from and with others to explore proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning. To get you started, check out the list of 41 education chats curated by the ISTE community, organized by chat type. If you don’t find something for you on this list, check out Participate.com, which hosts an easy to use list of chats organized by topic and even highlights happening each day. Here is a sample of some of the recommended chats: ●
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#edchat (Thursdays, 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET) One of the first education chats, this popular chat has nine moderators and covers a broad range of topics. Find upcoming topics and read archived chats at edchat.pbworks.com. #engchat (Monday, 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET) Where English teachers share ideas, resources and inspiration. #ISTEchat (Third Thursday, 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET) Focuses on issues related to ed tech and the ISTE Standards. #AR4Learning (Thursdays, 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET) Focused on augmented reality in the classrooms. #ARVRinEDU (Wednesdays, 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m.ET) Discussion about augmented and virtual reality in education. #BookCreator chat (Last Thursday of the month, 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET) Over the course of the chat, participants collaborate on a book and publish it online. #digcit (Wednesdays, 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET) Focuses on digital citizenship. Read the chat archives on the #digcit website. #EdTechChat (Mondays, 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET) Focuses on topics related to edtech. #pblchat (Tuesdays, 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET) For project-based learning fans. #PersonalizedPD (Tuesdays, 6 p.m. PT/ 9 p.m. ET) For those interested in customizing professional development to meet the needs of each educator. #Read4fun (Every other Sunday, 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET) Connects passionate educators with books, and with each other. See the entire list at www.iste.org
Personalized Professional Learning Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.
5 Ways to Make Your PLN Work for You As educators we are lifelong professional learners by nature. In addition to participating in district professional learning programs, many educators are being self-directed learners by participating in PLNs. Through book clubs, discussion groups, interactive courses, and weekly webinars, PLNs can be a great venue for educators seeking to continue their professional learning through non-traditional means. Here are five ways you can immediately put a PLN to work for you: Use your PLN.. ● to collaborate with others or answer questions about topics and content ● as a source for creative and effective resources ● to source virtual presenters or guest speakers ● for personalized professional learning ● to support or challenge your perspective. Read the article in its entirety at www.techlearning.com
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