Rhiannon Saegert writing in the Denton Record Chronicle:
Aaron and Colleen Graves, the new librarians at Denton High School and Ryan High School, respectively, have been updating their schools’ definitions of “library” one tiny engineering project at a time.
Makerspace smack in the middle of a Connecticut library. image via middlebury
Both librarians spent their summer moving shelves, getting rid of periodicals and reference texts and opening up the libraries’ layouts. Then, they began adding maker spaces to their libraries where students can work with robots, build their own and learn programming and coding.
“It’s not just about the maker space. It’s a whole philosophy of change,” Colleen Graves said...[more]
