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Mobile Makerspace: A Systemic Approach to Access and Opportunity

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Pennsylvania Convention Center, Terrace Ballroom Lobby, Table 27

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Presenters

Amy Johnson

Digital Learning Specialist

Parkway School District
@ajohnson106

Amy supports PK-12 instructional technology and innovation initiatives as the Digital Learning Specialist for the Parkway School District in St. Louis, MO. Through her work, Amy supports teachers and district leaders in all areas of tech integration including Google for Edu, virtual learning, and mobile learning. She has previously served the district as an elementary teacher, a technology integration specialist, and an elementary instructional coach. Amy has presented at national, regional, and local conferences on a variety of digital learning topics. She is a Google Certified Trainer, an ISTE Certified Educator and serves on the board of the Educational Technology Association of St. Louis.

Kira Brennan

Lib Sys Support Specialist

Parkway School District
@mrskirabrennan
@libraryinnovation

Kira Brennan is the Innovation and Library Systems Support Specialist in the Parkway School District outside of St. Louis, MO. She has worked as a middle school classroom teacher as well as a secondary Library Media Specialist where she was 2016 Teacher of the Year. In her current role, Kira provides leadership in the areas of librarian practice including innovation, technology integration, library programming, and designing modern spaces. Utilizing the Parkway Library Media Program guidelines, Future Ready Librarians framework, ISTE Standards, and AASL Standards, she helps to define what it means to be a librarian in the digital age.

Session description

Hear about Parkway School District’s Mobile Makerspace, a districtwide program for providing equitable access to STEM experiences. Makerspace kits are checked out to individual school librarians for one month. The librarian collaborates with their school community to use the kit to create innovative teaching and learning opportunities.

Purpose & objective

Participants will know the purpose for creating a mobile makerspace. They will also know the process to create a process for creating and maintaining a mobile makerspace program, including researching and vetting materials, setting up kits, distribution to schools, development of educators to build capacity and marketing the program for sustainability.

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Outline

Through the poster session we intend to share a presentation which showcases the items included in Parkway’s mobile makerspace along with the website created to market the mobile makerspace program. We will also share the mobile makerspace request form used to manage the scheduling and distribution of the kits along with the user guides created to develop and support librarians and teachers in the use of the makerspace kits.

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Supporting research

Parkway School District's Mobile Makerspace program was featured in the National Education Technology Plan updated in January 2017. (page 51) It was recognized as an example of Leadership-Creating a Culture and Conditions for Innovation and Change in the area of Budgeting and Funding for the Transition to Digital Learning
https://tech.ed.gov/files/2017/01/NETP17.pdf

Books:

Leading From The Library: Help Your School Community Thrive by Shannon McClintock Miller and Bill Bass

Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension by Sara Ahmed

Teach Boldly: Using EdTech for Social Good by Jennifer Williams

The Maker Playbook: A Guide to Creating Inclusive Learning Experiences by Caroline Haebig

Reimagining Library Spaces: Transform Your Space On Any Budget by Diana Rendina

Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering and Engineering in the Classroom by Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager

Numerous journal articles and other ISTE related resources will be shared as well.

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Session specifications

Topic:

Maker activities and programs

Grade level:

PK-12

Skill level:

Beginner

Audience:

Curriculum/district specialists, Library media specialists, Technology coordinators/facilitators

Attendee devices:

Devices useful

Attendee device specification:

Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows

Participant accounts, software and other materials:

QR Code reader

Subject area:

Computer science, STEM/STEAM

ISTE Standards:

For Education Leaders:
Systems Designer

Ensure that resources for supporting the effective use of technology for learning are sufficient and scalable to meet future demand.

For Educators:
Facilitator

Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and computational thinking to innovate and solve problems.

For Students:
Computational Thinker

Students understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.

Mobile Makerspace: A Systemic Approach to Access and Opportunity

, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Terrace Ballroom Lobby, Table 27

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