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Reclaiming "Failure"? The Iterative Dimensions of Learning Through Making

Sat, April 9, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Marriott Marquis, Floor: Level Four, Liberty Salon P

Session Type: Symposium

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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.

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