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There is a growing interest in, Design-Based Learning (DBL), a constructivist learning approach where students learn through design activities. Past research has examined extensively how this theoretically motivated learning approach can be implemented ...

While many digital or physical tools and construction kits have been developed for young makers, far fewer developments have focused on making with living materials, at DNA and cellular scales. In this paper, we review the affordances of various hands-...

We present a discussion on designing an Augmented Reality (AR)-based prototyping approach to help makers continue building low-fidelity physical computing projects despite material constraints and demonstrate an example, Polymorphic Cube (PMC). Lack of ...

Given the proliferation of makerspace experiences in K-12 education, there is a growing need to ensure accessibility for all learners, including those with disabilities and those at risk of academic failure. The limited research on these populations ...

As states are adopting NGSS, engineering is increasingly being integrated in K-12 science education. While middle schools have typically segregated learning by discipline, educators are recognizing the importance of making connections across STEM ...

A growing body of educational literature defends the need to prepare students for the new demands of the 21st century. Four skills are frequently cited among the most important skills that students should master: collaboration, communication, critical ...

The integration of maker resources and pedagogies into formal education can enrich school curriculum by promoting more meaningful, contextualized, and inclusive ways of learning, particularly in STEM fields. We describe an implementation model of ...

As designers and makers work with materials, the materials may "talk back." Some have characterized this as a conversation with materials, and others as material agency. Using interaction analysis of gaze data collected in a university creativity and ...

As its core, the environmental crisis demands humans to critically reflect on their relationship to the natural environment. This case study explores how three mothers and daughters from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds understand nature as ...

As the Maker Movement has continued to expand, there has been a complementary expansion in the spaces and contexts for engaging in Making. Most pertinent to this paper is the growing body of research on intergenerational making experiences. A hallmark ...

This project explores how learners engage in "maker" activities when collaborating with others and how participation can become more inclusive when framing activities to connect learners with children in their community. We describe the first iteration ...

This study aims to understand how maker education is being interpreted and implemented in China's middle and high schools and how it can be improved. A series of comprehensive interviews were conducted with an education policy researcher, twelve maker ...

This work presents a design case-study of an Internet of Things (IoT) learning toolkit that highlights salient design principles for the FabLearn community. This work showcases the careful decision about what to expose to and what to hide from the ...

Maker activities not only allow learners to make technologically rich or personally relevant artifacts but also grapple with critical sociocultural issues. With much of the focus on tools and technology, we have far fewer accounts of learners and ...

In this paper, we present an iteration on a "reconstruction kit" for e-textiles, a flexible-state construction kit that allows for rapid deconstruction and reconstruction of sewn, programmable circuits. The reconstruction kit was redesigned to be more ...

This paper describes exploratory research that contributes to a more holistic model of professional development (PD) for middle school STEM teachers to support inclusive makerspace classrooms. Despite an increased focus on maker education in K-12 ...

Educating resilient makers in accordance with the demands of the 21st Century requires relevant professional development programs (PDP) for teachers. Finnish learning starts with play based early childhood education (ECE) where the makers and innovators ...

This paper presents findings from a year-long after-school program that engages youth from local communities in computational making and community problem solving. Our goal is to understand how self-directed computational making activities contribute to ...

The e-textile landscape has enabled creators to combine textile materiality with electronic capability. However, the tools that e-textile creators use have been adapted from traditional textile or hardware tools. This puts creators at a disadvantage, as ...

Today's STEM classrooms have expanded the domain of computer science education from a basic two-toned terminal screen to now include helpful Integrated Development Environments(IDE) (BlueJ, Eclipse), block-based programming (MIT Scratch, Greenfoot), and ...

This study presents a subset of findings from a larger qualitative study on maker educators' assessment practices in various pedagogical contexts, from school-based to afterschool makerspaces. This study focuses on insights gathered from veteran maker ...

Climate change is a difficult topic for students due to interconnections and feedback among multiple components of the climate system. But many people also disengage from this discussion due to feelings of powerlessness. To engage students with this ...

One of the main challenges for Plan Ceibal makerspace program (Ceilab) is the search of new investigation lines applied to the national education system in Uruguay. This paper presents the results of educational and maker experiences across the search ...

We report the design, the implementation and the evaluation of an in-service teacher making course. Objectives for participating teachers are to be able to (i) create innovative physical learning and teaching tools with design and fabrication ...

This paper presents the studies for the implementation of an elective discipline for high school classes called Maker Math. The course covers math content from projects anchored in the Maker Movement, STEM education, and Industry 4.0 principles to ...

This study investigated how preservice elementary school teachers designed and facilitated science activities to confine or expand opportunities for student inquiry. As part of their enrollment in a Science Methods course within a Teacher Education ...

Design-based learning (DBL) is an inquiry-based learning method which is widely used across disciplines. For teachers, transforming towards a student-centered approach can be quite challenging in terms of how to prepare learning activities and how to ...

This conceptual paper proposes utilizing educational media as inspiration for maker activities for children (ages 4-8). This connection of media and making is introduced as "Transmedia Making Experience Design", a plug-and-play framework to design ...