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Challenge-Based Learning in the School Library Makerspace - by Colleen Graves & Aaron Graves & Diana Rendina (Paperback)
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Highlights
- An invaluable how-to text that details the workshop model, addresses the design challenges, and explains the best avenues for curriculum-based learning in the school library makerspace.
- About the Author: Colleen Graves is teacher librarian at Ryan High School in Denton, TX.
- 144 Pages
- Language + Art + Disciplines, Library & Information Science
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About the Book
An invaluable how-to text that details the workshop model, addresses the design challenges, and explains the best avenues for curriculum-based learning in the school library makerspace.
A successful school makerspace needs an enthusiastic maker community, school-wide participation, and staff support. How do you build this type of learning at your school? The innovative team behind Challenge-Based Learning in the School Library Makerspace addresses common questions and concerns and describes step-by-step how to introduce challenge-based learning into the school library makerspace.
Intended for librarians and school staff who have already started thinking in terms of makerspaces but need further help sustaining programming and want to know more about Makerspace 2.0, this helpful guide details the workshop model, various real-world design challenges, and the process for implementing curriculum-based learning in the school library makerspace. Readers will be empowered to go beyond the initial implementation of a makerspace and to draw from an arsenal of proven methodologies for designing challenges for student learning. Additionally, the book enables the addition of curriculum connections to library programming, shows how to connect your students to local experts and the global maker community, and eases you into more productive collaboration with other librarians.
- Explores crowdsourced research methods that lead to authentic participatory learning
- Ensures that student-led workshops and design challenges result in tremendous success
- Supplies practical tips that can be applied by beginner maker-librarians and provides curricula suggestions for advanced maker-librarians
- Explains how to incorporate design thinking, empathy building, and problem solving with design challenges that spur student creativity
Book Synopsis
An invaluable how-to text that details the workshop model, addresses the design challenges, and explains the best avenues for curriculum-based learning in the school library makerspace.
A successful school makerspace needs an enthusiastic maker community, school-wide participation, and staff support. How do you build this type of learning at your school? The innovative team behind Challenge-Based Learning in the School Library Makerspace addresses common questions and concerns and describes step-by-step how to introduce challenge-based learning into the school library makerspace. Intended for librarians and school staff who have already started thinking in terms of makerspaces but need further help sustaining programming and want to know more about Makerspace 2.0, this helpful guide details the workshop model, various real-world design challenges, and the process for implementing curriculum-based learning in the school library makerspace. Readers will be empowered to go beyond the initial implementation of a makerspace and to draw from an arsenal of proven methodologies for designing challenges for student learning. Additionally, the book enables the addition of curriculum connections to library programming, shows how to connect your students to local experts and the global maker community, and eases you into more productive collaboration with other librarians.Review Quotes
"Readers will find this to be a practical and can-do accessible guide." --Booklist Online
"This book is a must-have for librarians who want to build a makerspace from scratch or improve an existing one. . . . Highly recommended." --School Library Connection "This book . . . includes a concise yet comprehensive overview of makerspaces, as well as practical advice about what it takes to develop a maker mindset and maintain a vibrant schoolwide makerspace. . . . Highly recommended." --ARBAonlineAbout the Author
Colleen Graves is teacher librarian at Ryan High School in Denton, TX.
Aaron Graves is a school librarian with 18 years of experience in education. Diana L. Rendina, MLIS, is media specialist at Stewart Middle Magnet School in Tampa, FL.