Facilitation of Maker-Centered Learning in Formal and Informal Spaces

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium includes researchers and practitioners whose work focuses on the facilitation of maker-centered learning in formal and informal learning spaces from public elementary schools to museums to universities. The presentations and subsequent discussion will highlight the importance of facilitators and their pedagogical moves in order to achieve learning outcomes. As part of the 90-minute symposium, the organizers will introduce the topic and give each presenter 12-15 minutes to share their research on facilitation in makerspaces, followed by the discussant’s response and open conversation between the audience and panelists.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Learning Sciences

Chair

• Robert Daniel Wachtel Pronovost, Stanford University

Papers

• Facilitation Moves in an Elementary School Makerspace - Robert Daniel Wachtel Pronovost, Stanford University

• Supporting Knowledge Construction in Making via Collective Process-Oriented Documentation: A Path for More Effective Facilitation? - Yipu Zheng, Teachers College, Columbia University; Paulo Blikstein, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Stepping In and Stepping Back: How Adults Facilitate Children’s Making in a Drop-In Museum Makerspace - Sarah Lukowski, Museum of Science, Boston; Megan Goeke, University of Minnesota; Marjorie Bullitt Bequette, Science Museum of Minnesota

Discussant

• Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University