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SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY IMPACTFUL LIBRARIANS
Impact Habit #7 – Be the Orchestrator of Your School’s
or District’s Makerspace Initiative
Highly impactful librarians
know that the growing trend of makerspaces perfectly blends a con-
structivist approach to inquiry, problem-based learning, and literacy—all core competencies for
the dynamic school librarian.
Why?
• Because you have an unpre-
cedented opportunity to tie together
literacy, inquiry, and STEM and are the
best equipped to make it happen
• Increasingly, schools are housing their
makerspaces in the school library.
• Data shows that makerspaces are having a positive impact on student engagement via
hands-on learning.
How?
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To get started, find a program from which you can glean ideas for your makerspace.
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Go to:
thedisruptiondepartment.orgto learn more about how one district is evolving its
makerspace initiative through the design thinking process.
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The Design Thinking approach helps educators—as well as students—assess their “maker
activity,” from how to ideate potential solutions to a problem, to prototyping, to testing.
Source: Andrew Goodin, Department of Disruption
empathize
define
ideate
prototype
test
Source: Stanford Insitute of Design, IDEO