{"title":"Celebrating Art, Craft and Computation","authors":"L. Buechley","doi":"10.1145/3213818.3213879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213818.3213879","url":null,"abstract":"We often treat art as a fun but ultimately frivolous endeavor. We leverage it to entice kids to learn about the important things--math, science, or computing. But, art plays a uniquely powerful role in the formation of young people's identity, both intellectual and personal. This talk will argue that we should appropriately honor, interrogate, and understand it. I will celebrate the abiding connections between art, craft, and learning in computing. I'll examine the history of these integrations and connect them to the expanding role that computation plays in professional art and design communities. I'll explore the marvelous array of tools that are available for blending art, craft, and computing, and advocate for the explicit recognition of creative expression as central to many, perhaps most, learning experiences in computing.","PeriodicalId":173347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Conference on Creativity and Making in Education","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131095044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Co-designing Smart Home Maker Workshops with Girls","authors":"Eva-Sophie Katterfeldt, Nadine Dittert","doi":"10.1145/3213818.3213833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213818.3213833","url":null,"abstract":"Girls and women are still underrepresented in digital fabrication and computing although there are many areas of application to engage in meaningful and creative ways. One such application area is \"smart home\" that connects to inventing smart service applications to help people. We initiated three co-design digital fabrication workshops to find out which topics under the umbrella term \"smart home\" might be suitable for digital fabrication workshops that attract female makers. 29 girls of different age groups (10-17 years) generated 96 ideas and implemented 12 prototypes. As results, we recommend to design smart home maker workshops for girls covering topics related to comfort, recommender systems and alarm systems.","PeriodicalId":173347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Conference on Creativity and Making in Education","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129650244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empowering Teachers and New Generations through Design Thinking and Digital Fabrication Learning Activities","authors":"K. Pitkänen, Hanne Voldborg Andersen","doi":"10.1145/3213818.3213826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213818.3213826","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to investigate how teachers can be empowered to initiate learning activities involving design thinking and digital fabrication, developing students' skills necessary in the 21st century. Understanding of and the ability to deal with technologies is seen as ever more important in society and working life. Digital fabrication may be the next generation's 'information technology'. The paper examines the Danish FabLab@SCHOOLdk partnership and its several different models for further education of FabLab Pioneer Teachers in the three municipalities involved. The study identifies five important stakeholders inside the FabLab@SCHOOLdk initiative and illuminates their different roles and tasks for supporting processes aimed to empower teachers. A framework is suggested for evaluating the FabLab@SCHOOLdk initiative or as inspiration for other communities building or developing similar activities.","PeriodicalId":173347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Conference on Creativity and Making in Education","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124788662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Fabrication Laboratories","authors":"O. Iversen","doi":"10.1145/3258716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3258716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":173347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Conference on Creativity and Making in Education","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129171599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Alekh, Vennila Vilvanathan, Rahul Nair, V. Susmitha, Anirudh Muraleedharan, Meltem Alkoyak-Yildiz, N. Akshay, R. R. Bhavani
{"title":"Aim for the sky: Fostering a Constructionist Learning Environment for Teaching Maker Skills to Children in India","authors":"V. Alekh, Vennila Vilvanathan, Rahul Nair, V. Susmitha, Anirudh Muraleedharan, Meltem Alkoyak-Yildiz, N. Akshay, R. R. Bhavani","doi":"10.1145/3213818.3213830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213818.3213830","url":null,"abstract":"The education system in schools in India at large focuses on the transmission of knowledge to students and sets the expectation to simply memorize and reproduce it on tests in the form it was originally taught to them. In order to lay the ground for teaching 21st-century skills, it is imperative to go beyond the confines of the textbook and lecture-based learning and to encourage applying the knowledge imparted in the classroom in creative contexts and to solve problems. The paper discusses the workshop conducted to teach maker skills in the context of STEM-based learning to eighth graders in a semi-urban school in India. The students were taught to work with tools and the principles of design and the science required to create and launch water rockets. Pre-workshop and post-workshop surveys were conducted to measure for change in intrinsic motivation and general self-efficacy of the students who participated in the making activity. The results reveal a reported significant reduction in performance related tension and pressure after participating in such collaborative activities among other findings that are discussed in detail in the paper.","PeriodicalId":173347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Conference on Creativity and Making in Education","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129256939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children as Designers: Co-Designing and Making Products for a Better Everyday Life","authors":"Noora Salonen","doi":"10.1145/3213818.3213832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213818.3213832","url":null,"abstract":"There is increasing interest in learning through designing and making, as well as the use of digital fabrication tools in education. However, this research stream is relatively new, and there is as yet little research on children's approaches to user-centered and human-centered design. The purpose of this study was to investigate how actively and to what extent children can take account of the needs of future users in a long-term process of co-designing and making in an elementary school. Video recordings and observations of three teams of students revealed how they first identified the problem and then devised different solutions before co-designing and making product prototypes using a range of digital tools. Preliminary results indicate that the students were able to co-design and prototype meaningful, multi-level products and apps and to discuss and evaluate users' needs and abilities with the help of qualified teachers and experts.","PeriodicalId":173347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Conference on Creativity and Making in Education","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116412251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proceedings of the Conference on Creativity and Making in Education","authors":"","doi":"10.1145/3213818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213818","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":173347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Conference on Creativity and Making in Education","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126639896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The IDEA Model: A Conceptual Knowledge-Based Implementation of Making","authors":"Thomas Schmalfeldt","doi":"10.1145/3213818.3213840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213818.3213840","url":null,"abstract":"The ideas of \"Making\" and \"Creative Coding\" provide students with a learning opportunity that is driven by their own interests and according to their own pace. This is in contrast to the usual curriculum in schools, which predefines what students have to learn and decides on the processes of learning. Here, we present a model following the concept of constructionism, through which the ideas of Making can be applied in accordance with the requirements of an official curriculum. The model can be used at any school level.","PeriodicalId":173347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Conference on Creativity and Making in Education","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125696796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What's a makerspace for?: Investigating the integration of makerspaces into schools and communities","authors":"Fabio Campos, T. Soster","doi":"10.1145/3213818.3213837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213818.3213837","url":null,"abstract":"This poster describes and analyses a series of Makerspace observations and interviews, conducted in four public middle schools in East Palo Alto, California, USA. Our research team used Critical Pedagogy and Sociocultural Theories as frameworks for interpreting data. Focusing primarily on cultural aspects, we summarize four uses of Makerspaces and five tensions that result from their inception in schools. The poster includes practical recommendations for implementing and integrating Maker curricula to local communities and formal learning settings.","PeriodicalId":173347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Conference on Creativity and Making in Education","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129291662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}