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Session Type: Symposium
In recent years, the Maker Movement - a growing public interested in do-it-yourself designing, tinkering, and remixing, using physical and digital media - has emerged as a promising subject among educational researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. Yet for all of this attention, there remains much to learn about making in formal and informal educational environments - especially around issues of equity. In this panel scholars studying youth’s critical making practices explore the role of ‘failure’ and ‘iteration’ in making and learning and its implications for addressing educational inequities. In doing so, we simultaneously problematize the utopian framing that often characterizes the movement in popular discourse while also cultivating the promise of making as a critical educational practice that supports student learning.
Making Publics: The Iterative Design of High School Makerspaces - Amy Stornaiuolo, University of Pennsylvania; Theodore P. Nichols, University of Pennsylvania
Encouraging Iterative Design in Tinkering as an Equity-Oriented Pedagogical Practice - Molly Victoria Shea, University of Colorado - Boulder; Jean J. Ryoo, Exploratorium; Emily McLeod, TechBridge; José Sandoval, Environmental Science Workshop; Emilyn Green; Nicole Bulalacao; Linda Kekelis, Techbridge
Fixing Short Circuits and Faulty Code: Learning From Productive Failure With Electronic Textiles - Breanne K. Litts, Utah State University; Yasmin B. Kafai, University of Pennsylvania
From Failure to Flow: Collaborative Knowledge Networks in Children's Play and Making With Squishy Circuits - Karen E. Wohlwend, Indiana University - Bloomington; Kylie A. Peppler, Indiana University - Bloomington