DA guest columnist and FETC featured speaker Sylvia Martinez provides tips on how to combine curriculum, crafts and a dose of creativity in your library makerspace. She is co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom.
Districts are offering signing bonuses, filling gaps with social workers and counselors, training teachers to spot signs of distress, and developing intervention teams.
In this Q&A, literacy technology consultant and FETC 2020 presenter Shaelynn Farnsworth discusses the interrelationship between technology, literacy, differentiation and systemic change.
Sora, the student reading app from OverDrive Education, gives Harlandale students the ability to borrow titles from the district's OverDrive digital collection and access juvenile and young adult e-books and audiobooks from the San Antonio Public Library (SAPL). Sponsored content by OverDrive.
In this Q&A, Rosalyn Washington, a digital learning specialist for literacy at Atlanta Public Schools and a featured speaker at FETC 2020, discusses the changing role of the librarian, and the importance of teaching students technology and media skills.
Technology is transforming libraries into makerspaces and robotics labs, and spaces where librarians can provide students with social-emotional support.
