July 31, 2014

SisOps: Girl-Friendly Tech Programs

By Karen Springen on May 2, 2014 Leave a Comment
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New girl-friendly technology initiatives are challenging tech’s boys-only culture.

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Meet the Makers: Can a DIY movement revolutionize how we learn?

By Hiten Samtani on June 19, 2013 8 Comments
A young patron sits down to a recording session at the “creation station” of the Darien (CT) Library. Photograph by Dru Nadler.

The maker movement, known to past generations as “DIY” (do-it-yourself), encourages collaboration, invention, and radical participation with a single goal: to create new things. This maker ethos is gaining a serious foothold in education, both in practice and at the policy level.

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Using Social Media to Engage Teens in the Library

By on June 10, 2013 Leave a Comment
“Brother Mike” Hawkins (at left) and YOUmedia’s Spoken Word team at the “Louder Than a Bomb” poetry competition in Chicago, March 2013. Photo courtesy of “Brother Mike” Hawkins.

Ideas about social media, teens, and the future of libraries were shared in a dynamic online exchange sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) and Connected Learning.

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