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Making is connecting. The Social Meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2011.

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The article was published on 2013-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 458 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Meaning (existential) & Polity.

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A Case Study of After-School Activities in one School that is Making Progress in Closing the Achievement Gap

TL;DR: In this paper, after-school activities have been shown to impact students and the effects from the broader literature have been discussed, including the achievement gap, social context in which our schools exist, increasing diversity and economic challenges, and challenges of disjointedness in schools.
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Everyday Kintsukuroi: Mending as Making

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the problem of repairing the damage due to human failures and imperfections in the world we live in, and take seriously what we may be unreflectively inclined to regard as the necessary but uninventive and uninspiring work of repairing such flaws.
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Scaling up Open CPD for Teachers in Higher Education: A Snowballing Approach

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the snowballing approach developed for the openly licensed course Bring Your Own Device for Learning (BYOD4L) and the opportunities this presents to open cross-institutional CPD and open course development more generally.

Making: On Being and Becoming Expert.

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TL;DR: Through discussion, it is critically engage how mundane aspects of infrastructure relate to maker notions of expertise, the Maker Movement’s claims of broad participation toward democratization, and the contextual dimensions of expertise.
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Rethinking convergence / culture: an introduction

TL;DR: In the first decade of the twenty-first century, there has been a growing perception that we live in an era of media "convergence" as mentioned in this paper, and there are at least four ways that the expression "convegence" h...