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Mister Schuermann
@mrschuermann.bsky.social
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K to 6 #HeForShe Librarian at the Peel District School Board 🇨🇦 Prime Minister's Award Recipient 2024.
Hard Fun, Good Trouble, Learn By Doing.
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Grade 3s collecting ideas from books & talking math while drawing plans for our "How might we make an earthquake proof building?" engineering design task 📚📐💡➡️ tinyurl.com/engineering-design-canvas

#FutureReadyPeel
#Makerspace #Inquiry
#STEM #EngageMath #Geometry
@cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social
Grade 3 challenge with UN global goal 11 connections in the library at the Peel District School Board
December 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Tried paper with LEGO again.

Sorta works but found it's tricky for little hands.

Wish I had the 'MUJI' LEGO contraption from a decade ago.

Tips welcome.

#LearningThroughPlay
#MakerSpace #LEGO
#EduEky #TLsky #OntED
#FutureReadyPeel
Merging LEGO and cardstock to make new things.
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Grade 2 friends learning to use 'Scratch Jr' while developing their computational thinking skills in the library at the Peel District School Board 💡

#FutureReadyPeel
#EdTech #TLsky
#CodeToLearn #HourOfCode
#Makerspace #STEM
tinyurl.com/code-to-learn
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Grade 3s are gearing up for a "How might we make an earthquake proof building?" inquiry!
Startes by flexing our collab & geometry skills while creating tall, strong paper towers! 🏗️🗞️

#FutureReadyPeel
#GrowthMindset
#GlobalCompetencies
#MakerSpace #STEM
#SchoolLibrary
@cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social
Grade 3 engineering design project starting out in the library at the Peel District School Board
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Super popular week for visual literacy titles at our library 📚 ... the @capedcrusaders.bsky.social community appears to be having an impact ⚡😉

#ReadingIsEpic #GraphicNovels
#TLsky #EduSky
@cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social
Circulation is up for graphic novels / comics at our library
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Creating 'Chompers' with grade 3 modern learners as we learn strategies & safety tips for using cardboard tools to help prototype designs & showcase thinking in the library at the Peel District School Board 💡📐🪚 ➡️ bit.ly/cardboard-canvas

#FutureReadyPeel
#MakerSpace #STEM
#EduEky #TLsky #MakeDo
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Collaborating with @teacherpatel.bsky.social & grade 4 modern learners as we code 'About Me' interactive identity collages in Scratch 👨‍💻💡

Try it out ➡️ tinyurl.com/code-to-learn

#FutureReadyPeel
#CodeToLearn #HourOfCode
#MakerSpace #STEM #UDL
#TLsky #EdTech
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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A few @megabrights.bsky.social alumni highlighting Ayah Bdeir & her 'LittleBits' while producing a Women's History Month featurette in the Library for @teacherpatel.bsky.social's iMovie project 💡📢

#FutureReadyPeel #EduSky
#MakerSpace #EdTech
#SheInnovates #STEM
@medialab.bsky.social
Movie making at the Peel District School Board Littlebits prototyping modules
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Expanding the toolbox of each student for multiple means of expression💡📣

...Grade 4 modern learners discovering how to document their work in Minecraft using built in cameras & journals that can export as PDFs.

#FutureReadyPeel
#MakerEd #UDL #TLsky
#EdTech #Minecraft
@cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social
Documenting Minecraft work in the library Co-created rules for safe and equitable Minecraft play in schools at the Peel District School Board
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Launching 'Book & Build' for our quick primary STEM classes.

Started with 'I will take a nap' by Mo Willems & a question.

Learners made cardboard beds, LEGO hammocks, paper slide beds + more as they built solutions💡

#FutureReadyPeel
#MakerSpace #STEAM
#EduSky #TLsky
@cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social
Read / watch / listen to a story followed by a guided inquiry prompt Making solutions in the library at the Peel District School Board
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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I feel selling roadside eggs on #Halloween is asking for trouble 🥚🎃🙃
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Grade 4 members of our visual literacy club getting dramatic with an EPIC read-aloud 😀📚

#KidLit #TLsky #ComicBooks
#LiteracySkills #ReadingIsEpic
@cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social
@capedcrusaders.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Grade 2s building, coding & crafting the stadium & other fan gear for the Jays ahead of game 1 during today's STEM classes in the library makerspace ✨🐦⚾ Go Jays!

#EduSky #STEM #MakerEd
#BlueJays #WantItAll
@torontobluejays.bsky.social @sportsnet590thefan.bsky.social @tsnofficial.bsky.social
LEGO fan gear! Making a stadium for the Jays in Minecraft Go Jays! Coding fans on the way to Skydome
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Somebody brought in a toy truck today. 🚛

Learners were wondering if it travel all the way across the LLC with one push. 🤔

A dozen ramps later & a little teamwork...success! 🏆

#GrowthMindset #STEM #SimpleMachines #Teamwork #FutureReadyPeel #Collaboration #TLsky #EduSky
October 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Members of the @capedcrusaders.bsky.social reading through 'Avengers: No More Bullying' recently.

Good one-shot comic to help build a positive learning culture at the Peel DSB ✨

#FutureReadyPeel
#TLsky #EduSky #KidLit
#Comicbooks #Marvel
#ReadingIsEpic
Leading grade 4s in the reading of the comic using iPad as a document cam
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Ms Marvel ⚡ Jubilee ✨ Northstar ❄️+ more!

...The grade 4 @capedcrusaders.bsky.social's took a look at 'Marvel Rising' style titles today, amplifying diverse & under-represented comic book heroes.

#KidLit #EduSky #TLsky
#WeNeedDiverseBooks
@cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social
➡️ youtube.com/shorts/rsaPq...
Ms Marvel, Muslim hero
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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While collaborating w @teacherpatel.bsky.social, grade 4s are getting perspective on the "low-floor, high-ceiling & wide-walls" of @mres.bsky.social's Scratch by taking a look inside a fan fiction raycaster game by the @megabrights.bsky.social 💡 ➡️ tinyurl.com/megabrights-raycaster

#MakerSpace #STEM
Grade 4 modern learners looking at a graphic novel inspired video game in Scratch
October 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Everypony wants these graphic novels this morning ✨

#TLsky #KidLit #MyLittlePony
#SchoolLibrary
@capedcrusaders.bsky.social
Students checking-out our newest My Little Pony comic en mass in the school library at Peel DSB.
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Discussing makerspace options in the library learning commons with primary classes that can assist them with multiple means of representing their thinking / problem-solving 💡

#FutureReadyPeel #UDL
#MakerSpace #STEM
#Makedo #Minecraft #Lego
@strawbees.bsky.social
@cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social
Tools and artifacts on display in the library at the Peel District School Board Combining 3D-printed parts with cardboard builds & crochet mini-hammocks when making solutions in the LLC Lots of makerspace tools and a little paper treehouse
October 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Much rejoicing as grade 4 @capedcrusaders.bsky.social members dove into the Kazu Kibuishi 'Amulet' series during a recent meet-up ⚡📚 A classic GN adventure!

#KidLit #Comics #TLsky
#ReadingIsEpic! #RobotHouse
@scholasticuk.bsky.social
@cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social
Highlighting an under-circulated graphic novel series. Grade 4 reading a comic book Learn to draw prompts Club members making deals about who can sign out which book first
October 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Just got a custom T-shirt from a pair of gracious colleagues 👕⚡🙏 Always great collaborating with dedicated educators! Many thanks.

#TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork
#FutureReadyPeel
#STEAM #EduSky #LibraryLife #MakerSpace
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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AI Animation Fun!!
#AIinEdu #MakerSpace #RainbowCloudHeadMan
October 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Primary & junior students having critical thinking discussions about AI in schools 🤖🤔 ...this included prompt engineering in Gemini & turning our drawings into animations! Try it ➡️ tinyurl.com/ai-animate

#FutureReadyPeel #AI
#DigitalCitizenship #STEM
#EduSky #TLsky
@cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social
AI lesson at the Peel District School Board Prompt engineering with grade 4s to get the best answers to HELP them with their inquiry Lots of artificial intelligence talk about HELPING vs CHEATING on assignments when it comes to using AI assistants like Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT or Microsoft CoPilot in school Getting AI smart cameras to help us with animating our drawings in the school library
October 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Here is a PDF graphic organizer inspired by Mitch Resnick's 'Creative Spiral' model & other ideas out of @medialab.bsky.social ➡️ tinyurl.com/creative-spiral-canvas [11x17] 💡...one of many models of learning we use in the LLC.

#FutureReadyPeel #EduEky
#MakerSpace #MIT
@cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Collaborating with Ms P as grade 5s dive into the process behind storytelling & iMovie to build 21st century skills that will help them document their learning down the road 📽️💡

#FutureReadyPeel
#MakerEd #DigitalMedia
#EduSky #OntED
September 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM