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More often than not, the memorable assignment was one that allowed them to build and create.

This constructivist approach, as outlined by Dennis Jonassen in his 8 Characteristics of Constructivist Learning, values hands-on and experiential learning that allows students to create multiple representations of ideas. The variety of examples that they create prevents oversimplification and allows students to address topics in their complexity. The emphasis on constructing knowledge, rather than reproducing it, is not only effective at revealing comprehension, but also the misapplication of concepts and ideas. In Dvorak's class, the examples were not without their flaws. Dvorak used this reality to have a discussion that evaluated and identified the strengths -- and just as importantly -- the weaknesses of their work. In many cases, that happened without the teacher having to point out the misapplication since students were able to evaluate and give feedback during the discussion.

In the past, these types of activities were not entirely foreign to classrooms. The regularity with which they take place, the power of the creation tools available to students, and our ability to share these creations is what has changed today. The increasingly available classroom technology and the growth of student 1:1 initiatives means that students not only have access to abundant knowledge, but also the ability to create and express their learning in powerful and creative ways. Today, student "expressions of learning" can take the form of videos, podcasts, songs, and a limitless number of dynamic and interactive presentation formats. Many of these opportunities transform learning from a presentation of information to the creation of art.

Far beyond filling out answers on a worksheet, these assignments allow for individual talents and personality to shine through. While it's unlikely that you have ever heard a person say, "that worksheet changed my life," most people have an assignment from their childhood that they remember with pride because it was meaningful to them. More often than not, that memorable assignment was one that allowed them to build and create.

Perhaps the most important effect of the new economy of information is the need to make sense of information that is around us. "In order to do this, students need to literally create their learning and demonstrate not just what they know, but what they can do."

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Having a transformative school library is an issue of equity.

According to its mission, the American Association of School Librarians empowers leaders to transform teaching and learning. The words "leaders" and "transform" are key. As a faculty member in a preservice program, and as a school librarian for more than 25 years, I know that's exactly what I want my students to do when they land in libraries.

Research confirms: When credentialed school librarians lead teaching and learning in our schools' largest classrooms, student achievement and reading scores increase.

Perhaps what the research does not show is what it looks like and what it feels like. School libraries are not merely places to get stuff. School libraries are more kitchen than grocery store. They are more transformational than transactional. Critical weeding and new design models make space for user-centered, "genrefied" collections and for messy, informal, self-directed learning. On any given day in a school library, you can hear the productive noise of collaborative invention-brainstorming, design, debate, production, storytelling, and presentation.

We teach kids to be solid digital leaders. We teach them to be kind bloggers, tweeters, and networkers, to understand, build, and take pride in their contributions and their digital footprints. Because of school librarians, when kids build media, when they remix, they know how to respect the intellectual property of others, leverage the Creative Commons movement, and flex their fair use muscles and understand its limits.

We work with classroom teachers to build creative inquiry projects and assessments. We help learners develop meaningful questions. We encourage them to critically evaluate, to triangulate authority in all formats. Our kids can mediate truth and recognize a source when it is unglued from its container. They make thoughtful, nuanced decisions about the credibility of an infographic or tweet or the authenticity of an image. Their inquiries lead to knowledge building, problem solving, meaning making, agency, and voice.

We aspire to be in their pockets and on their phones. The librarians I know were blended, flipped, and embedded before it was a thing. Our websites, guides, apps, and social media curation efforts create ubiquitous road maps. They model how teachers and students might organize their own information worlds and construct and leverage their networks.

What's happening in our third spaces-our participatory spaces-is powerful. In times and places of narrowed and narrowly assessed learning, school libraries are spaces where creativity is nurtured and allowed to flourish. The library is a place where it is safe to be different, where we can have conversations about social justice.

We recognize that we can connect our classrooms and libraries globally, that inquiry and collaboration are no longer bound by geography. School librarians connect people. We recognize learning is social, and connected is the way people learn, work, and play. My own students loved that our Somewhat Virtual Book Club involved partner clubs from around the country and that we hosted guest experts, authors, classrooms, and other libraries from around the world via Hangouts or Skype.

Flip through any of our professional journals. Read the blogs and you'll see practitioners sharing their experiences with fostering self-directed, informal learning through makerspaces, genius hours, problem solving through gaming. We get to know the whole child and the full range of learners. We see them before and after school, at lunch, at recess. We support differences. We know that the young woman who comes in with the history project also loves jazz, devours steampunk, and has two moms.

The transformational aspect of our jobs is transparent. Sharing their successes and reflecting on their efforts in a vibrant online community of practice, school library practitioners who blog, tweet, pin, and curate move the transformation of libraries forward.

School libraries transform learning. School librarians lead teaching and learning. Or they don't.

Some children have access to the robust library programs I describe here. Others have never seen a school library or have seen their libraries closed.

Having a transformative school library is an issue of equity. All children deserve access to the tools they need to learn, create, and share. Access to these tools is an intellectual freedom issue.

JOYCE KASMAN VALENZA

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Recently, I had the unfortunate experience of dealing with criticism. I was told (not to my face) by a visitor to our school that our library makerspace is not a "real makerspace". This same person stated that our woodshop is a "real makerspace" because it has power tools. She suggested that I "do some research" on what makerspaces actually are.

Feeling personally insulted aside, what bothers me most about this statement is the concept that some makerspaces are more valid than others and that a makerspace is solely defined by the tools it contains. I do agree that our woodshop is a makerspace, even though we don't call it that. Our woodshop is awesome, and I'm so glad that we have a space where students can learn how to use saws, drills and other tools to build awesome projects as part of their curriculum. Yes, that is a makerspace.

But is my space any less of a makerspace simply because it doesn't have power tools? Because it doesn't have a 3D printer? Because my students build with LEGOs, K'nex and cardboard?

Defining Makerspaces

All of this got me thinking about how we define "makerspace". So I did what librarians do best: I researched. I gathered together my books on makerspaces, I searched our databases for articles, and I crowdsourced the amazing hive mind of Twitter.

For the record, here's my own definition of a school Makerspace:

A makerspace is a place where students can gather to create, invent, tinker, explore and discover using a variety of tools and materials.

A makerspace can be anything from a repurposed bookcart filled with arts and crafts supplies to a table in a corner set out with LEGOs to a full blown fab lab with 3D printers, laser cutters, and handtools. No two school makerspaces are exactly alike, nor should they be. Makerspaces are as unique as the school cultures they represent. There is no such thing as one form of making being more valid or better than the other. Makers are artists, crafters, knitters, seamstresses, builders, programmers, engineers, hackers, painters, woodworkers, tinkerers, inventors, bakers, graphic designers and more.

A #makerspace is a place where kids gather to create, invent, tinker, explore & discover. Click To Tweet

What the Research Says About Makerspaces

Here's where my research led me:

I like this definition from Samatha Roslund's book Makerspaces. I see three important elements to this definition: Place... people... make things. While different possible foci are mentioned, this definition does not limit a Makerspace to a particular set of tools. It's about a place, about a community. Another similar quote comes from the Educause Learning Initiative article, 7 Things You Should Know About Makerspaces:

"A makerspace is a physical location where people gather to share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network, and build."

Makerspaces are not about the tools; they're about enabling making.

More on Makerspaces

"... [A] space where kids have the opportunity to make - a place where some tools, materials, and enough expertise can get them started. These places, called makerspaces, share some aspects of the shop class, home economics class, the art studio and science labs. In effect, a makerspace is a physical mash-up of different places that allows makers and projects to integrate these different kinds of skills." Dale Dougherty, The Maker Mindset, in Design, Make, Play

"Even if you don't have access to expensive... hardware, every classroom can become a makerspace where kids and teachers learn together through direct experience with an assortment of high and low tech materials." ~ Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez in Invent to Learn

"A Makerspace is a metaphor for a unique learning environment that encourages tinkering, play and open-ended exploration for all" ~Laura Fleming, author of Worlds of Making

Making, Creativity, and Design

"What do you do in a makerspace? The simple answer is you make things. Things that you are curious about. Things that spring from your imagination... that inspire you and things that you admire. The informal, playful atmosphere allows learning to unfold, rather than conform to a rigid agenda. Making, rather than consuming is the focus. It is craft, engineering, technology and wonder-driven." Thinkers and Tinkerers

"The most important quality of a makerspace is that it encourages creativity. This can be done with a space full of hand tools, materials, and finished projects. The culture in a space should support the idea that anything is possible." 3 Key Qualities for a School Makerspace

"Makerspaces provide hands-on, creative ways to encourage students to design, experiment, build and invent as they deeply engage in science, engineering and tinkering." Jennifer Cooper, Designing a School Makerspace (Edutopia)

"Makerspaces are collaborative learning environments where people come together to share materials and learn new skills... [they] are not necessarily born out of a specific set of materials or spaces, but rather a mindset of community partnership, collaboration, and creation." Library as incubator project

(Emphasis in quotes is mine)

The video above is really long by internet standards. But you should at least watch the first few minutes, where students share what their makerspace means to them.

Read up more on Makerspaces

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Diana Rendina, MLIS, is the media specialist at Tampa Preparatory School, an independent 6-12 in Tampa, FL. Previously, she was the media specialist at Stewart Middle Magnet School for seven years, where she founded their library makerspace. She is the creator of the blog RenovatedLearning.com. She was a monthly contributor to AASL Knowledge Quest from 2015-2018. Diana is the winner of the 2016 ISTE Outstanding Young Educator Award, the 2015 ISTE Librarians Network Secondary Award, the 2015 AASL Frances Henne Award & the 2015 SLJ Build Something Bold Award. She is an international speaker on the Maker Movement and has presented at conferences including AASL, FETC & ISTE. Diana co-authored Challenge-Based Learning in the School Library Makerspace with Colleen and Aaron Graves and is also the author Reimagining Library Spaces: Transform Your Space on Any Budget.

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Moving Students From Consumers To Creators To Contributors
by Drew Perkins, Director of Teachthought Professional Development

The oft-shared John Dewey quote "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." is one that resonates with progressive educators around the world. Our education system however, seems to have missed all of those tweets and Pinterest pins. In a recent podcast (listen below) with Getting Smart's Emily Liebtag, I mentioned moving students from consumers to creators to contributors. Justin Tarte had said this in my TeachThought Podcast with him earlier this year and I appreciated that language. It certainly is a great step to shift our teaching and learning from having students just consuming information to the top of Bloom's taxonomy where they are creating. That next step, however, where their creations are at least potentially adding value to their community and perhaps the world at large is powerful. While it's true that our students are indeed the future, there are real reasons why we need to remember that they are also a big part of our today and our teaching and learning should reflect that.
[READ] Getting Smart Podcast | The Ripple Effect: Creating Community Change through Schools
One of my favorite projects of a teacher I've worked with as a facilitator of a PBL workshop is mentioned in the Getting Smart podcast above. Penn High School Science teacher Diane Bowersox empowered her students to help their community that was dealing with water quality concerns by organizing an event where people could get their water tested. As this news story shows, Penn High School students raise awareness about the dangers of nitrogen in drinking water, used their learning of chemistry to help community better understand their water quality. While Diane was initially a little concerned about how many people would take advantage of this event it turned out her students tested water for 8 straight hours. As she notes in the news story, "I hope it leads them to feel like 'hey, I can be involved in the community and make some kind of impact." What a great example of student work contributing!

Education has the power to change communities but sadly our schools often play a marginalized role in their neighborhoods. While it's certainly true that schools can and should grow students for their futures that doesn't mean that they can't also add value to the world while doing so. Stephen Ritz has seized the opportunity to do just that where his students are transforming the food desert of the Bronx with the Green Bronx Machine. Watch the video to the right and you'll feel his passion but you'll also notice the blurring of the lines between school and the so-called "real-world" because his student's creations are contributing to their neighborhood AND they are learning through the process. Disconnecting our classrooms from the world outside of them is a missed opportunity that benefits both the school and student as well as the communities in which they live and serve.
[LISTEN] TeachThought Podcast with Stephen Ritz: Ep. 43 Let's Grow Students With PBL And Urban Agriculture
Another great example of student's contributing to their community is the work being done by the Leadership High School Network in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A few years ago I had the chance to visit ACE Leadership High School and see first hand as students used their learning in the areas of architecture, construction, and engineering (ACE) to build and design for real clients in their area. After a successful launch of that school they have since added Tech Leadership and Health Leadership schools in a similar model. This network has benefitted from the consultation of a friend and colleague, Tim Kubik, who's upcoming book Participation is Preparation builds upon the thinking he shared in the TEDx video to the left. In Tim's talk he asks the question, "what if standards are the means to the end in mind, not the end in mind itself?" There's no doubt that rigid curriculum and tight adherence to standards and timelines are a friction point for more authentic and organic learning but it doesn't have to be this way. Shifting our teaching and learning to focus on learning that is relevant to students doesn't mean we can't teach standards. Instead we're looking for a shift in how they are incorporated into the learning.

There are more examples of students engaging in more authentic learning to be found, usually through Project-Based Learning, as this shift gains momentum but not nearly enough. As Tim mentions in his TEDx talk it's time to think differently about instructional design in a way that focuses the learning students participating and contributing instead of doing work to show that "adults are getting it right."

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Moving Students From Consumers To Creators To Contributors by Drew Perkins, Director of Teachthought Professional Development The oft-shared John Dewey quote "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." is one that resonates with progressive educators around the world. Our education system however, seems to have missed all of those tweets and Pinterest pins.

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How does your current lesson/assignment reflect the students you currently have? Does it reflect the interest of the students on this years roster? What is hot in popular culture that you can capture for learning? If your students are into sharing meme's, let them share meme's about your math class!

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.... people love to share meme's. Meme's can be a fun way for students to demonstrate their understanding of a concept.

This chemistry cat meme was created on memegenerator.net. However, the first sample meme I see on this site is the Dos Equis man and I would prefer my students not be exposed to that.

Creating a meme on Google Draw is easy! Have students demonstrate their learning with a clever meme.

You can distribute the above template out to students through Google Classroom or your website. Alternatively, students can create them from scratch themselves.

Google Drawing

A Google Drawing can be created by going to Google Drive, clicking on "New" and choosing "Drawing" from the "More" menu. Students can also get there directly by going to drawings.google.com. Google Classroom users, clicking on "Open" in an assignment and choosing "Create" allows the student to create their meme right in Google Classroom.

Resize Canvas

In the template I have defaulted the canvas size to 400 pixels by 400 pixels. A pixel is a unit of measurement for the computer. Your cursor width is 1 pixel. A page width is about 800 pixels.

Use the File menu to choose "Page setup."

Change from "Standard 4:3" to "Custom."

I prefer to switch my units from inches to pixels.

You want your meme to be square. Try 400 pixels by 400 pixels.

Picture

Your entire drawing canvas should be covered by a picture. This is a good opportunity to have a digital citizenship lesson with students about using pictures they do not own. By default, any picture is under copyright. If you take a picture on your phone. You own the copyright of that picture. If I post my picture to my website, that does NOT give anyone else permission to use that picture. Just because it is on the Internet does not mean it is free. Students should use their own photos, photos under a creative commons license (and give credit!), or public domain photos.

Try photosforclass.com as a source of images for the meme. Pixabay has thousands of public domain photos. The Library of Congress has some wonderful images that students can use for their memes.

Insert Image

Use the Insert menu in Google Drawing to insert the picture. If you downloaded the picture, drag it onto the canvas or insert it using the insert image option.

Snapshot

The second option when inserting an image

Create a text box on top of the image on the drawing canvas. Choose a font that is thick and bold. You want the text to contrast well with the background image.

Tip, after creating the text box, duplicate the text box and change the color. Align the new text box over the original text box. Hold down the shift key and use the arrows to nudge the top text box so it is slightly off. This creates a shadow effect.

Link to my Google Drawing: https://goo.gl/r1NQ5N

Use the File menu to "Download as" a PNG image.

There are a lot of great ways to share memes. One way is to create a collaborative Google Slides presentation and have each student add their meme to a slide.

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#Future Ready Librarians: Empowers Students as Creators

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#Future Ready Librarians: Empowers Students as Creators

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Encourages and facilitates students to become increasingly self-directed as they create digital products of their learning that engage them in critical thinking, collaboration and authentic, real-world problem solving.

1. Do you have spaces for students to create digital products documenting their learning?
2.  What types of library instruction do you use to promote critical thinking?
3.  How does your program support connections to the community?
4.  What do you include in your program to support real-world problem solving by students?
Select 3 different resources that will give you ideas for your role as teacher librarian to work with students and teachers. Leave comments if you wish. Feel free to add other resources to this Padlet.