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Learning in the Making: A Comparative Case Study of Three Makerspaces.
Kimberly Sheridan,Erica Rosenfeld Halverson,Breanne Krystine Litts,Lisa Brahms,Lynette Jacobs-Priebe,Trevor Owens +5 more
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Sheridan et al. as discussed by the authors explore how makerspaces may function as learning environments and describe features of three makerspaces and how participants learn and develop through complex design and making practices.Abstract:
Through a comparative case study, Sheridan and colleagues explore how makerspaces may function as learning environments. Drawing on field observations, interviews, and analysis of artifacts, videos, and other documents, the authors describe features of three makerspaces and how participants learn and develop through complex design and making practices. They describe how the makerspaces help individuals identify problems, build models, learn and apply skills, revise ideas, and share new knowledge with others. The authors conclude with a discussion of the implications of their findings for this emergent field.read more
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The Maker Movement in Education
TL;DR: Halverson and Sheridan as mentioned in this paper provide the context for research on the maker movement as they consider the emerging role of making in education and present points of tension between making and formal education practices as they come into contact with one another.
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The Promise of the Maker Movement for Education
TL;DR: The Maker Movement is a community of hobbyists, tinkerers, engineers, hackers, and artists who creatively design and build projects for both playful and useful ends as discussed by the authors, and there is growing interest among educators in bringing making into K-12 education to enhance opportunities to engage in the practices of engineering, specifically, and STEM more broadly.
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Making Through the Lens of Culture and Power: Toward Transformative Visions for Educational Equity
TL;DR: Vossoughi, Hooper, and Escude as mentioned in this paper argue that the ways making and equity are conceptualized can either restrict or expand the possibility that the growing maker movement will contribute to intellectually generative and liberatory educational experiences for working-class students and students of color.
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Learning Through STEM-Rich Tinkering: Findings From a Jointly Negotiated Research Project Taken Up in Practice
TL;DR: The Tinkering Learning Dimensions Framework (TLDF) as discussed by the authors ) is a toolkit for making activities designed for museum visitors to explore the potential of the maker movement as a driver of creativity, excitement and innovation.
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The makerspace movement: Sites of possibilities for equitable opportunities to engage underrepresented youth in STEM
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how and why youth engage in making in an after-school, youth-focused, community-based makerspace program "Making 4 Change" and discuss how youth appropriated and repurposed the process of making, and unpack how the program attempted to value and negotiate youths' ways of making from an equity-oriented perspective.
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
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TL;DR: "Digital fluency" should mean designing, creating, and remixing, not just browsing, chatting, and interacting.