The #TXLchat provides a forum for Texas librarians (but not limited to Texas librarians) to create collaborative connections, share educational resources, and foster life-long learning.
A1 The maker culture moves the focus from student consumption to creation which reflects student voice and choice. The maker mindset can impact the entire school culture by helping ignite students’ curiosity and willing to take initiative.#txlchat
A1: I think this is the final frontier in truly diversifying the learning platform for our kiddos. Visual, audio, and this is mos def tactile. It taps into complex cognitive space. I've yet to take the leap! #txlchat
A1: A maker culture supports and extends the curriculum, provides an outlet for creativity, and develops critical thinking skills, collaboration, and resiliency. #txlchat
a1 That support shows students what is possible. They will have experience upon experience that they otherwise would not. They will build on that. Learn from it. Make connections. Learn skills. Perseverance. Creativity. So many good things #txlchat
A1: I'm in a high school, so I think a maker culture is important because many future skills will be more "making" solutions than "bubbling" answers. #txlchat
A1 Maker culture allows students to flex their creative muscles but it also provides a safe place to experiment and fail. That’s a huge part of the learning process. #txlchat
A1: A maker culture brings collaboration, creativity, and STEAM to a campus. It helps create a bridge from the classroom to the library and allows Ss to build skills that can’t be obtained in a traditional classroom setting. #txlchat
A2 Every maker activity you and your students participate in can be correlated to the TEKS, Texas Library Standard’s & AASL Standards. As you support the teachers, you will build strong relationships and have a positive impact campus wide by support learning objectives. #txlchat
A2: Collaborating with teachers and DLC can help ensure all standards are being met in classroom and in library! Makerspaces can allow for hands-on learning! #txlchat
A2: Providing a variety of materials, both tech and nontechnical. Having activity cards with certain TEKS and standards when they are being taught in the classroom. #txlchat
A2: We have started implementing Maker Fridays in the library this year, tying in grade level content area and literacy TEKS with an open-ended challenge and activity, usually paired w a read aloud. @JackieSenerchia@carriejakus#txlchat
A2: Oooh, good 1! Creating & collaborating can help students develop skills in inference, predictions, self-assessment, etc. The processes involved in a maker space can support standards across curricula. #txlchat
a2 It depends. Many of our student projects require planning, research, reading, drawing, modeling, prototyping, listening... Easy to connect to and extend more traditional work #txlchat
A2: Create a portable maker cart that teachers can use to incorporate with lessons on the fly. Create examples that go with popular topics for each subject area using the TEKS. #txlchat
A1: A maker culture in the library allows for extensions from the classroom with creativity and exploration. Many Ss need hands-on opportunities to make connections with classroom concepts
A1: I know the goal is to incorporate the standards, but sometimes you have to deviate and let the kids explore. Play is the best type of learning. #txlchat
We are doing low tech Valentine card making this week, with added "create a light up" Valentine's tomorrow. Students flocking to it :) In a high stress school, opportunities to do things with your hands relieve some stress. #txlchat
In reply to
@AustinNakeisha, @CallejoLibrary, @StarrReadnRun, @CassieJanda, @_MichelleCooper, @Makerspaces_com, @DISD_Libraries
We are doing low tech Valentine card making this week, with added "create a light up" Valentine's tomorrow. Students flocking to it :) In a high stress school, opportunities to do things with your hands relieve some stress. #txlchat
In reply to
@AustinNakeisha, @CallejoLibrary, @StarrReadnRun, @CassieJanda, @_MichelleCooper, @Makerspaces_com, @DISD_Libraries
A3: Favorite high tech with my Ss: Coding with @Ozobot or Circuits with @littleBits Favorite low tech: Building with @LEGO_Group or crafting origami bookmarks #txlchat
A2: we try to provide makerspace activities that are aligned with TEKs for Ts to sign up. Planning with Ts on skills that go hand in hand with the TEKs and makerspace #txlchat
A2: I think teamwork, communication, creativity- things that aren’t explicitly addressed in the standards-are the most important! I make sure I can facilitate those first, then align with the standards. (TEKS are important too, of course!) #txlchat
Which brings up an important point - Maker may mean something different at every campus and in each environment. Most of our Ss already taking AP Comp Sci, so I can't really do "simple coding" bec. they already code complex things. Have to adjust to your audience. #txlchat
A2: By giving students and teachers options for projects. Improving upon existing inventions or finding solutions for real world problems. Granted...that they have all the Materials and support they need from all stakeholders #txlchat
A3: My kiddos love to color. They've done bookmarks for @poweredlibrary's Power Up Your Library week in the past. It's a huge success every year. I've also got puzzles for them. #LowTech#txlchat I want to get them into coding.
Our students love card making. We've done holiday cards, be thankful cards, written to other schools during disasters cards...seems very accessible and they build community around the time spent making. Even if low tech. #txlchat
A3: Sadly, there isn’t much tech in my maker space. My kids LOVE Perler beads and the button maker. I think they break the button maker every time it gets used. I have a 6th grader who is responsible for fixing it. He likes being able to do that. #txlchat
A3 HS low-tech maker- coloring sheets for finals time! Students talk and study while coloring! Today, I found out I won a Merge Cube from #TCEA so I'll be playing with that soon. #txlchat
A3: Finally getting some training on 3D printing (robots are always popular) so that’s been the buzz but low tech kids love button makers, bookmarks. My next project is taking my sewing! I’d love to learn with the kids. #txlchat
A2: Maker activities provide students the opportunity to work on specific TEKS with a hands-on approach. Without creating a circuit, how does a student really understand the TEKS that includes circuits. #txlchat
My best purchase...the cheap $2 box of alphabet letter stamps at Michael's. We also use our weeded books for them to cut words out of or poems out of. #txlchat
I'm hoping to get some supplies for a lego wall soon. I'm re-purposing a defunct whiteboard. I think the Ss would love creating using that! #FingersCrossed#txlchat
A3: Favorite high tech with my Ss: Coding with @Ozobot or Circuits with @littleBits Favorite low tech: Building with @LEGO_Group or crafting origami bookmarks #txlchat
A2: IMO, MS support all curriculum w/o purposefully tying in TEKS by way of providing opportunities for Ss to use critical 💭& inferencing skills, and further creativity and innovation that the Ts dont have ⏰, materials &/or space to facilitate. #TxLChat#punkrocklibrarian
A4: I wanna new room by @KarenKaufmanOrloff pairs well with perimeter, area and measurement. Ss can design their dream room on graph paper creating their own key/legend! #txlchat#teacherspayteachers
A2 As for national AASL standards, makerspaces promote thinking, creating, sharing, growing, engaging, exploring, collaborating, inquiring, and including #txlchat
A4: I won’t say that I “pair” books with the maker space. I have relocated most of my DIY books that coordinate with materials in the maker space in that room. They get used more there than they ever did on the shelves. #txlchat
a4 I just read this book yesterday, The First Drawing by Mordicai Gerstein, to the kids (the Internet was gone for the day) and then we practiced some basic sketchnoting skills inspired by @sylviaduckworth#txlchathttps://t.co/5LFs3qWQth
A3: ours are all low-tech as our engineering teacher provides the tech (3D printing, etc): ours are legos, and building things w/ paper & tape only, & making something USEFUL with duct tape! Pretty low-key as we are still building our MS. #TxLChat#punkrocklibrarian
A3 rarely doing hi tech these days. Doing lots of paper folding and cardboard activities. Students need to understand what happens as we apply forces to materials before hi tech uses. #txlchat
Q4: #lowtech idea: I'm still very much in love with @mattdelapena Love. I'd love to see students create cards or crafts displaying how they feel/cope with the difference ideas of love as they navigate middle school. #DeepThoughts#txlchat
A4 It’s not exactly about making, but I really like Engineered! Engineering Design at Work by Shannon Hunt and the young reader’s edition of Steven Johnson’s How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World #txlchat
A5: Advice for those starting a makerspace: Ask PTA for help buying tech tools. Ask parents to donate old Legos. Ask Ss for ideas of what they want. Biggest piece of advice I can offer... Start small and JUST DO IT! Your Ss will amaze you with what they can create! #txlchat
A2 As for national AASL standards, makerspaces promote thinking, creating, sharing, growing, engaging, exploring, collaborating, inquiring, and including #txlchat
And that is perfectly fine. A makerspace should reflect what you and your students like to do. Don’t let others pressure you to make the space hi tech. Sometimes the low tech is the best way #txlchat
YES! I'm going to use @technolibrary's idea and pull out things to make Valentine's card tomorrow morning. Just put it out there-and see what they do! Thanks!! #txlchat
A5: Start off small and experiment. Ask students what they want. When I was IT I did the Hour of Code and it was a great kickoff to building a maker culture. #txlchat
A5: I'd pass on the sage advice of starting where you're comfortable - even if that means #lowtech. Makerspaces are daunting to me, but I feel comfort in knowing that #lowtech is still #tech. And we all have to start somewhere. #txlchat
A5.2: Consider how you will acquire & organize maker items, as well as how you will schedule your makerspace. This year, I color coded my materials w colored tape & wrapping paper, so kids would know where to find things and can return them to the correct shelf after. #txlchat
That's all, folks! Thanks for joining us. Feel free to keep sharing, and be on the lookout for the archives if you weren't able to join us live. #txlchat@_MichelleCooper@StarrReadnRun
I was walking down the hall today and heard (and jumped in) a random argument about Hogwarts houses. Harry Potter-themed activities would probably go over well with some of my HS students. #txlchat
A5: My #makerspace advice: Get started and begin your own unique journey! Your learners will show you the map, and you will guide them on the way. But do get started! #txlchat#cisdlib
A5: Start small. I had to sit back and organize my thoughts because I wanted to do so much all at one. I started off with carts and labeled them with random stuff. It’s my go to cart lol & Ask around for donations. #txlchat
A4: we have some great books on creating digital/online things: blogs, coding, APP creation; also, NF 700s is an absolute gonto for pairing with activities! #TxLChat#punkrocklibrarian
A5 have a bunch of materials out for students to use. Focus on the words “choice” and “opportunities.” Sometime students are ready for a full blown maker experience. give them an activity where they can insert an idea or two #txlchat
Such great advice! Start with one thing & go from there... Other important item: look for grants! We have over $5,000 of #Maker items from grants that I’ve written in the last 2 !#txlchat
A5: ask for help when you need it! There are HS librarians in my district that are DA BOMB at implementing some of the most amazing MS...they’ve been a wealth of knowledge! Also, survey/gauge for student interests! #TxLChat#punkrocklibrarian
A5: Pick something and embrace it! You don't have to have ALL of the robots, but maybe find one you like. Find out what crafts your students are into- knitting, oragami, coloring, cardboard, Legos? #txlchat
A5: Start with one thing and keep adding. Got items from @DonorsChoose, found stuff at garage sales and many things are items that are readily available.
A1: A #makerspace culture inspires everyone to be creative! It fosters design thinking and shows us there is more than one way to see things!! #txlchat
