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Thinkering Spaces project
June 24, 2008 11:59 AM | Projects, Special Collections, Good ideasMichael Scott, Assistant Director
I came across a great series of posts from The Shifted Librarian about the Illinois Institute of Technology's Thinkering Space. IIT received a grant from the John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Digital and Learning Initiative to "promote and support thinking skills for the 21st century." The focus is on school-aged children in libraries. Take a look at a description of it and see what you think here.
As the Shifted Librarian states, "What I like about these ideas is that they expand on existing content in the library, using the library's collection, and mashing it up with users' ideas to create something new." It certainly has peaked my interest in yet another way to expand the use of library collections that already exist in a Web 2.0 world.
