Excitement about school makerspaces has been in the air, but many educators eager to create hands-on learning spaces in their schools still aren’t sure how to get started or why it’s worth the effort.

As an elementary educator for most of my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with a variety of learners—from inner-city students in North Carolina to university-level students in Chicago—but I ...

ETTRICK The Chesterfield County Public Library was awarded a grant by the Cameron Foundation which will help add new spaces and amenities to the Ettirck-Matoaca Library. The $47,088 award will support ...

Public libraries have come a long way from the reading rooms of the past, where the librarian's “Shhhh!” followed any utterance above a whisper. In fact, they're noisy places today - modern community ...

The Eugenia H. Young Memorial Library wants to help folks get creative. On Monday, the library celebrated the opening of a new makerspace room where patrons can conceive, design and create various ...

A stream of fourth-graders poured into the library at Burnt Bridge Creek Elementary like water spreading into the nooks and crannies of a large — yet highly educational — reservoir. The library, ...

It was about a year ago that a partnership between Mentor School District and Mentor Public Library opened a whole new world of creativity to the community and beyond. Since then, the high school ...

In a recent edWebinar, hosted by edWeb.net, Michelle Luhtala, library department chair, and Donna Burns, technology integrator, both from New Canaan High School (NCHS) in Connecticut, showcased the ...

Legos are among the creative toys new Calvin Donaldson Environmental Science Adademy Librarian Selena Seymour would like the community to donate to the school's library, which she plans to turn into a ...

Montour Elementary School's latest makerspace, the first of its kind powered by Lego Education, wasn't the school's first advanced, hands-on learning lab, and it won't be its last. "I believe ...