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Jump for Joy: How to Get Your Learners Moving, Making, and Motivated

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Session description

Learn how to use rotation stations (centers), STEAM, maker projects, and tech to help motivate even your most reluctant learners. Participants will take home digital resources and literacy-based makerspace lesson ideas to get students moving, making, and learning joyfully in your classroom or library.

Outline

Introduction: Using smarboard/laptop -- Who I am, what the libratory is (share video link), and share current research on why creativity, making, and moving are essential to learners today. -( 5-10 minutes)

If Turbo Talk -Share six different models for rotation stations in the classroom/library via printed QR codes and/or on my laptop or smartboard.
If large group setting - set up 6-12 tables with QR codes and videos/lessons explaining models and possible makerspace literacy lessons. — (10 to 20 minutes)

Share some additional successful literacy-linked makerspace movement/rotation stations lesson plans focused on specific tech applications and diversity with photos and sample Google Slide decks not used during rotation station model share. (10-15 minutes)

Answer questions about my school, program, or lessons shared thus far (5-10 minutes)

Evaluation of the Learning Experience (5 minutes)

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Supporting research

• Do Schools Kill Creativity? Ted Talk by Ken Robinson
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity?subtitle=en

• More Than a Dozen Ways to Build Movement Into Learning
https://edutopia.org/article/more-dozen-ways-build-movement-learning/

• Personalised Learning Through Learning Stations
https://owis.org/sg/blog/personalised-learning-through-learning-stations-in-the-pyp-classroom/

• STEAM in practice and research: An integrative literature review": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871187118302190

• Ling Zhang, James D. Basham, Sohyun Yang,
Understanding the implementation of personalized learning: A research synthesis,
Educational Research Review,
Volume 31, 2020

• "A systematic review of library makerspaces research": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740818822000652

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Presenters

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New Emerson School

Session specifications

Topic:

Library/Media

TLP:

Yes

Grade level:

PK-12

Audience:

Librarian, Teacher

Attendee devices:

Devices required

Attendee device specification:

Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows

Participant accounts, software and other materials:

Google Suite

Subject area:

Elementary/Multiple Subjects, Interdisciplinary (STEM/STEAM)

ISTE Standards:

For Educators:
Designer
  • Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.
For Students:
Innovative Designer
  • Know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
Creative Communicator
  • Choose the appropriate platforms and digital tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.

TLPs:

Spark Curiosity, Ignite Agency

Additional detail:

Student presentation