Janice Mertes, Digital Learning Consultant, DPI @WisDPITech Nancy Anderson, School Library Consultant, DPI @DPIWiscIMT Tessa Schmidt, Public Library Youth and Special Services Consultant, DPI

3  Standards & Instruction ◦ What and how should kids learn? ◦ Innovation Learning ◦ How are digital technologies integrated into learning?  Assessments and Data Systems ◦ How do we know if they learned it?  School and Educator Effectiveness ◦ How do we ensure that students have highly effective teachers and schools?  School Finance Reform ◦ How should we pay for schools? Wisconsin State Superintendent Tony Evers: Agenda 2017

4 By 2017, we need to reach target goals that prepare our students for success in further education and career: Further increase graduation rate from 85.7 percent to 92 percent. Increase career and college readiness from 32 percent to 67 percent. Close graduation and career and college readiness gaps by 50 percent. Increase the percentage of students scoring proficient in third-grade reading and eighth-grade mathematics. Adopt the Fair Funding for Our Future plan to make school finance more equitable and transparent Wisconsin State Superintendent Tony Evers: Agenda 2017

5  Develop a comprehensive strategy for digital learning in Wisconsin  Provide recommendations to the State Superintendent on initiatives that promote and advance digital learning.  Use technology to enhance and improve student learning  Create opportunities for personalized learning  Create news ways of teaching and opportunities to leverage technology  Align learning resources and teaching opportunities to meet academic standards so every child is career and college ready

How can learning be transformed by digital, collaboration opportunities and extreme space makeovers? Learn about the new models of makerspaces, sandboxes, classroom arrangements, virtual learning commons, media hives and collaboration centers. Ideas will be shared from various DPI partnerships, grant programs and emerging research to help schools address the needs of digital learning.

 How can learning be transformed?  What models are out there?  Who are the partners?  What research supports this?

Project New Media Literacies principles  Heightened motivation  Relevant learning  Opportunities to create  Co-configure expertise  Integrated system

Makerspaces are collaborative learning environments where people come together to share materials and learn new skills… makerspaces are not necessarily born out of a specific set of materials or spaces, but rather a mindset of community partnership, collaboration, and creation. The Library as Incubator Project

 Activities – The What  Environments – Where are the activities taking place?  Interactions – With whom  Object – What’s being used  Users – Who

 KNOW YOUR SPACE  DO A PREVIEW RUN  VERIFY SKILL LEVELS  BE FLEXIBLE  REACH OUT FOR HELP  DOING BRINGS DOUBTERS ON BOARD  IT’S THE EXPERIENCE, NOT THE OBJECT

Stanford Design Institute

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Started in 2000 with an NSF grant, the Tinkering Studio is an interactive space at the Exploratorium that allows visitors to interact with electronics and traditional craft and craft-making techniques -- from building simple circuits and robots, to learning the concepts of balance and leverage, to orchestrating lengthy marble runs.

Loveland Public Library iCreate lab. Their technology area also includes iLearn and iExplore labs.

Oak Park Oak Park Public Library

Mudd Center Academic Commons Oberlin College

Computer lab make over 2.0

Detroit Public Library

University of Mary Washington

Build a Sandbox: Reconfiguring the learning spaces + accessible tech = a new way of learning & sharing. CCSS offers new design & learning to allow for interaction, publication and learning that is not device dependent

Harvard LabraryHarvard Labrary—a temporary ‘pop-up’ space in an empty storefront in the middle of Harvard Square—has been a public gallery for design student projects on the future of libraries.

Maples High School

How do you do it?  Grants  How to do it with no $  Partners  Redesign of space/learning expectations  Collaborative planning

Makerspace Playbook Beginnings: what we’re doing and why; origins of the Maker movement Places: making a space more conducive to a community that makes together Tools & Materials: inventory, budgets, and strategies (see also High School Makerspace Tools & Materials: a companion document detailing the uses and costs of a fully stocked inventory for an in-school Makerspace.)High School Makerspace Tools & Materials Safety: planning for safety, signage, and common rules Roles: what teachers, students, shop managers, and mentors do in a Makerspace Practices: pedagogical approaches experienced makers use to support emerging makers A Year of Making: teacher Aaron Vanderwerff describes his experience making with students Projects: guiding novice makers as they build their skill set; sources for projects Startup: nuts and bolts of getting involved with the Makerspace network Documenting: sharing projects … and the stories behind their making Snapshots: four school-based Makerspaces in action Resources: helpful lists, forms, and templates MakerSpace Playbook

 What is a makerspace? Hackerspace Students explore their interests  Exploratorium  Hacker space  Bubbler  The Library as Incubator Project definition Collaborative learning environments Community partnership, collaboration, creation

Makerspaces Makerspace Playbook/website  the-makerspace-playbook the-makerspace-playbook Madison public library Bubblr Project  Tips to Get Started on How to Create Makerspacers at your School  school-tips-to-get-started/ school-tips-to-get-started/ A Librarian’s Guide: 16 Resources for Creating Makerspaces 

 Digital Media, Civic Spaces and Re-enforced Social Skills  Lives for 21st Century spaces  spaces-21st-century-learners spaces-21st-century-learners Libraries as Digital Media Centers  space.aspx space.aspx Hang Around, Mess Around, Geek Out (HOMAGO Spaces as sponsored by the DML)  HOMAGO Guidebook  YouMedia Centers  creating-pathways-interests-opportunities creating-pathways-interests-opportunities Hives  creating-pathways-interests-opportunities creating-pathways-interests-opportunities

 Design Spaces and Ideas for Promoting Collaboration  Designing Collaborative Spaces, Sandboxes and More 21st Century Designs  Schools.aspx?=THE21&Page=1 Schools.aspx?=THE21&Page=1 Collaborative Spaces  d= &eid=17935#pg32&mode1 d= &eid=17935#pg32&mode1 Turn Your Classroom into a Learning Factory  idea-factory/ idea-factory/ Misc. Resources to Review State of Georgia..space designing/refreshing and space creation idea   / /

 Janice’s Pinterest Makerspace Board  Janice’s Pinterest on Learning Spaces Board   MakerSpace Playbook MakerSpace Playbook  Makerspace: Madison Public Library sees innovation centers as a key part of its future Makerspace: Madison Public Library sees innovation centers as a key part of its future

 Resources and connections with CCSS and digital media  Makerspaces, creative spaces and digital media centers are a new trend related to project based learning, student empowered learners and collaborative learning spaces. The 4C's are so important: collaboration, creativity, communication and critical thinking.  21st Century Skills and the CCSS Action Verbs  4C’s Poster   4C’s and the 3R’s in 21st Century Learning   Overview of CCSS and 21st Century Skills   Thinking about Education 3.0  be-planning-education-3-0/ be-planning-education-3-0/  30 Ways to Increase Creativity in Your Classroom   Design Thinking: Creative Ways to Promote PBL   Stanford Design Institute--great to review on principles of space, learning and creation   Connected Learning Infograph and Play 