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PARIS -- École 42 might be one of the most ambitious experiments in engineering education. It has no teachers. No books. No MOOCs. No dorms, gyms, labs, or student centers. No tuition. And yet it p... 
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Come inside for a tour of the new Anderson Academic Commons at the University of Denver.
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The University of Denver saw its library renovation as an opportunity for a fundamental rethinking of the use of space and technology to support the new ways people work and learn in a digital environment.
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From new technology to everyday materials to rebooting school woodshop and home ec classes, makerspaces challenge students to open their minds and expand their skillsets.
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@ Virginia Commonwealth University. Make It Virtual.
The digital morphological models can be readily shared with researchers across the globe, who can use freely available software to examine the skeletal models from every perspective—something not possible with static photographs or illustrations. These digital bone models can also be accurately measured, enabling detailed comparisons between the digital type element and the element being studied by a researcher.
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Hackaday serves up Fresh Hacks Every Day from around the Internet. Our playful posts are the gold-standard in entertainment for engineers and engineering enthusiasts.
We are taking back the term “Hacking” which has been soured in the public mind. Hacking is an art form that uses something in a way in which it was not originally intended. This highly creative activity can be highly technical, simply clever, or both. Hackers bask in the glory of building it instead of buying it, repairing it rather than trashing it, and raiding their junk bins for new projects every time they can steal a few moments away.
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A compilation of two highlights from the Great Library Roadshow of March 2012, sponsored by OCLC and Library Journal. You'll see what two different libraries...
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The messy, hands-on Maker classroom is perfect for a PBL unit when the teacher is willing to collaborate, tinker, fix, break, and rebuild alongside students.
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How often do librarians find themselves trying to explain that the library’s mission is not about books but about information? This public misunderstanding about what we are doing and why leads to a community misconception of what we should be doing in the future. The reality is that we as librarians make the same mistake all the time. We know intellectually that informational flow and access are our main missions, but our decisions and our hearts often put the focus on books. Books, in many cases, remain by far the best delivery vehicle for information, but there are many subject areas where other informational vehicles would be more effective, even if implementing those vehicles might mean less money spent on books.
Karen Miller's insight:
Maker culture has expanded the idea of what libraries can do to create and disseminate information.
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In order for teachers to encourage student innovation, they need the freedom to be innovative as well. Eight ways school leaders can support faculty who want to develop engaging curriculum.
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The following materials are being used to present to educators the idea that implementing maker education requires a different mindset, and often different roles and skills of the educator. To acce...
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These elements that are characterstic of the Educator as Maker Educator resonate well with the role of the academic library.
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Today, 3D printing is part of the “Maker Culture” that attempts to encourage people to move from passive users to become producers and in the process enable them to acquire technological skills. One example of how 3D printing is being used here at VCU is the Virtual Curation Laboratory which uses 3D technology to record and print historic artifacts for analysis and conservation.
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A robot opens the school day by making the morning announcements, ticking off the remaining days of school on his fingers. This may sound like the opening scene of a science fiction movie, but it i...
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A survey by John Burke at Miami University found that 109 libraries in the US had a makerspace or were close to opening one.
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Worth thinking about social meeting and learning places, and the information management needs of participants in this kind of learning environment.