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Part 4, Curriculum and Makerspaces – Investigating history and society through guided inquiry and multimedia

Softlink is delighted to introduce guest blogger Jackie Child, Teacher Librarian at St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School in Brisbane and author of the TinkeringChild.com blog.

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Part 3, Curriculum and Makerspaces – Deep thinking and designing sustainable solutions for social issues

Softlink is delighted to introduce guest blogger Jackie Child, Teacher Librarian at St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School in Brisbane and author of the TinkeringChild.com blog. In this week’s post, Jackie shares some activities students at St Aidan’s have undertaken to apply digital technologies within the social sciences, through designing, creating, and testing digital solutions for current and future social issues.

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Part 2, Curriculum and Makerspaces – Responding to literature with creativity and tech

Softlink is delighted to introduce guest blogger Jackie Child, Teacher Librarian at St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School in Brisbane and author of the TinkeringChild.com blog. This is the second blog post in the series, and looks at ways to connect literature and coding, using texts as a starting point for creative design, engineering and programming activities for problem solving and self-expression.

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Part 1, Curriculum and Makerspaces – A dynamic space for learning and play

Softlink is delighted to introduce guest blogger Jackie Child, Teacher Librarian at St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School in Brisbane and author of the TinkeringChild.com blog.
In this series of blog posts, Jackie shares her experience working with students across all grade levels to address a range of curriculum objectives through tech-centred activities in the school’s library/makerspace. This first post focuses on creative coding activities that address elements of the STEM curriculum, with suggested resources to support teaching and learning in this area.

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What are the most important services and objectives for school libraries?

What are the most important services and objectives for school libraries? In this blog post we share some of the responses from our Australian and New Zealand School Library Survey.

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