Girls' Digital Storytelling: Democratizing Learning Design Through Makerspaces

• In Event: 60.085 - Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: 60.085-7 - Division C, Section 3A poster session

Abstract

This study examines the design implementation of a makerspace-inspired summer camp for middle school girls within the broad scope of STEAM. The principles undergirding this informal learning design afforded the girls an opportunity to uptake from the resources- spatial, technological and human in order to choose their unique narrative paths to create digital stories as reflexive artifacts of socioemotional relevance. Our paper foregrounds the design in terms of: space, content and technologies where the content is available as a topical pool under the themes (Narrative, Music, Emotion and Design). We focus on one digital story as exemplifying the Constructionist syntonic learning in its variants of body-syntonic, ego-syntonic and cultural-syntonic to propose makerspaces as designs for enabling artifacts of socioemotional relevance.

Authors

• Fariha Hayat Salman, The Pennsylvania State University

• Marcela Borge, The Pennsylvania State University

• Heather Toomey Zimmerman, The Pennsylvania State University