Category Archives: Participatory Learning/Engagement
Pew: Libraries at the Crossroads
Some interesting findings from Pew’s Spring 2015 data collection and recent report “Libraries at the Crossroads.” Take a look at the least popular ideas in the visual below (Thanks to Pew for providing these embeddable graphics):3D printers and shifting books … Continue reading
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IMLS Blog: “Free to the People”
To celebrate the national Week of Making, IMLS is running a series of blog posts about the maker movement. Here’s a snippet from today’s post from Corey Wittig of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: There’s an idea that today’s youth are Digital Natives—naturals … Continue reading
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Quotable: On Kids and Tinkering
““There are not enough opportunities in a child’s life to be taken seriously, to be given autonomy and to learn authentically … I And the functions which restrict working are normally the functions, which are not essential cialis prescription for survival. Thinking … Continue reading
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On My Mind: Information Literacy in the Design, Tinkering, and Building Process
Two things crossed my desk this week that have been do-si-do’ing in my head. After a few years of seeing my information literacy work in one silo, my maker work in another, and my role as an instructor of contextual inquiry in … Continue reading
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What is the spine of your makerspace? {A day with Plano ISD librarians}
Hello, Plano ISD folks! Here are the resources from our maker learning day together, along with some links to things we talked about that aren’t in the slides. I hope you’ll keep me posted about your thinking! You gave … Continue reading
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MakerBridge & its founder Sharona Ginsberg featured in Publisher’s Weekly!
As some of you know, I’m part of UMSI’s MakerBridge project (site, blog, Twitter), which connects librarians to maker ideas and fellow making librarians. We’re thrilled that our project founder and coordinator Sharona Ginsberg was featured in Publisher’s Weekly this … Continue reading
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Makers’ Center of Gravity
Recently, while reading Alfie Kohn’s new book The Myth of the Spoiled Child, I stumbled upon a phrase by progressive American educator John Dewey: a child’s “center of gravity,” and I felt I finally found words to describe what it … Continue reading
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Michigan Makers in the News
Yesterday was UMSI MakerFest, and here’s a snippet of the story from The Michigan Daily! School of Information event brings technology, assistance – The Michigan Daily via kwout It hinders super cialis cheap men’s ability to perform well after lowering … Continue reading
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Changing the rhetoric from “I love libraries” to “Libraries love communities”
What should libraries and librarians be advocating for? It’s something I think about a lot with my collaborators. There’s such a trend right now for librarians to double as promoters not just of their libraries but of their own personas. … Continue reading
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Rainbow Looms and Digital Footprints
Slate ran an intriguing article today in which a young professional dives into the kid-addicted world of Rainbow Loom, the set of pegs onto which small, colorful rubber bands are attached until a woven bracelet emerges. Katy Waldman, in “Rainbow Loon: … Continue reading
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