Equitable Making Practices for Informal Learning Environments - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Equitable Making Practices for Informal Learning Environments Marcelo Worsley Learning Sciences & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Redefine Making 3

Making is about the power of big ideas, and opportunities to externalize and realize those ideas. It is agnostic to disciplines and to specific technological tools. 4

Making is agnostic to discipline. 5

Social Justice Making for

Fun Making for

Environmental Making for protection

Learning Making for

Making for Entrepreneurship

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Making is agnostic to technological tools. 13

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Making should be meaningful* 16

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Be intentional about diversity and inclusion 19

Frame activities around generative themes

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Teachers not comfortable in this area need support in developingmeaningful tasks for students and the slow onramp to the kind of work that is advertised. No one talks about how teachers and programs evolve but it's hard and messy and real. (Survey response) 24 Remold, J.; Fusco, J.; Anderson, K.; and Leones, T., 2016

Position facilitators as designers

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Promote making @ home

Incorporate strategies that improve ideation

Advocate multiple designs

Explicitly building on prior knowledge

Find ways to promote personalization and avoid standardization

Spend time understanding where students’ ideas came from and what their goals are.

Don’t make it feel like school

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