{"title":"Whose Design Matters?: Co-designing making activities with and for hyper-marginalized families","authors":"Joanna Weidler-Lewis, Cynthia Graville","doi":"10.1145/3311890.3311916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311916","url":null,"abstract":"Making-for-All narratives permeate discourses in education and policy without considering the challenges to implementing programming equitably for all. This paper describes a nascent research collaborative that aims to partner with incarcerated women to design making experiences that support inter-generational STEM learning-through-making. We describe our initial fieldwork in prison, including discussions with incarcerated women regarding their own STEM identities and conceptions of their children's learning. This work informs our larger effort to explore critical making and expansive learning that problematizes assumed parental roles, normative families, and the right to agency in design and decision making.","PeriodicalId":289072,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of FabLearn 2019","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123406668","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":"Making Community: Following in the footsteps of the Thai King","authors":"Sawaros Thanapornsangsuth, N. Holbert","doi":"10.1145/3311890.3311911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311911","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this short paper is to take an initial step in exploring a design framework that emphasizes making connections to students' community and creating relevant cultural connections to their constructionist learning experience. We present and illustrate our design framework using a case study of 4th graders at a low-income school in Bangkok, Thailand designing and building social innovations to solve problems in their community. Inspired by the late Thai King Bhumibol, who was the country's unifying figure and widely admired as \"The Developer King,\" students made things that were personally and socially meaningful to their community. Students in this case were creative and innovative in their design effort and reflective of how their achievements doing things that are useful for others aligned with the spirit of King Bhumibol.","PeriodicalId":289072,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of FabLearn 2019","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116251649","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":"Designing Tools for Observation and Assessment in Makerspaces","authors":"Vishesh Kumar, Rebecca Millerjohn, P. Wardrip","doi":"10.1145/3311890.3311926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311926","url":null,"abstract":"Makerspaces, especially in their diverse proliferating forms, support a broad variety of learning outcomes. There is rich work in attempting to understand and describe these learning goals. Yet, there is a lack of support for practitioners and educators to assess the learning in their events, without extensive video-recording and documentation. In this paper, we present our design iterations at adapting the Tinkering Studio's Learning Dimensions framework into tools used by makerspace facilitators. These tools are intended to support recording observations, so as to inform the design of events they organize. We find that supporting real-time, informative observation increases granularity of data collected, but also increases the need for training required at the end of facilitators; such tools carry power to transform practice in action. In response, we also present future plans to attempt dealing with current challenges.","PeriodicalId":289072,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of FabLearn 2019","volume":"214 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134145357","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}
Bradley Camburn, Amanda Swee, Arlindo Silva, K. Wood
{"title":"Design Making: A study of architectural sites, state transitions, and learning","authors":"Bradley Camburn, Amanda Swee, Arlindo Silva, K. Wood","doi":"10.1145/3311890.3311905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311905","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to support the design of academic maker spaces. Observations are made of a make-based introduction to design course for first year university students. Activity state transitions, architectural sites, learning outcomes and their relationships are recorded. A Markov chain, state transition modelling approach is used to capture the sequences of activities undergone by 329 student-designer participants during the prototyping segment of the design course. Several field surveys were conducted along with site analysis to support the study. The first survey identifies key features students look for in the architectural design and affordance of maker spaces. Then key sites used in the course are evaluated for these features. Finally, a pre- and post- survey was implemented to determine correlations between site, activity, and learning outcome. Reported results include: a finite state machine (or probabilistic model of student making activity state transitions); simplified architectural site analyses of key facilities; preferences for site based on activity; and lastly observed correlations between activities, sites and learning outcomes.","PeriodicalId":289072,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of FabLearn 2019","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124284332","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}
Sharon Lynn Chu Yew Yee, Brittany Garcia, Elizabeth Deuermeyer, S. Deady, Francis K. H. Quek
{"title":"An Investigation of Relevance from Curriculum-Aligned Making in the Elementary School Science Classroom","authors":"Sharon Lynn Chu Yew Yee, Brittany Garcia, Elizabeth Deuermeyer, S. Deady, Francis K. H. Quek","doi":"10.1145/3311890.3311891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311891","url":null,"abstract":"Little research addresses Making as an approach that may impact the relevance of science to students. This paper investigates whether and how students make connections to their everyday life during curriculum-aligned Making activities. We argue that Making, with its focus on hands-on construction and technology, can act a possible bridge between 'school science', which tends to focus on formal models of science concepts, and 'everyday science', that addresses directly the application of science concepts. We analyzed videos from an ongoing longitudinal Maker program where Making is integrated into third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade classes at public elementary and intermediate schools. Our qualitative analysis revealed eight different ways in which elementary students found relevance in curriculum-aligned science Making activities. The most frequent types of 'relevance' were the use of analogies and the application of everyday knowledge to aspects of the Making activity. In the Making activities, students drew relevance with six aspects of Making. The Making product or physical design triggered relevance connections most often. We conclude that despite its focus on learning objectives of formal science curricula, curriculum-aligned Making allows students to make connections with their everyday life, and may potentially be used as an approach to make school science more personally relevant for students.","PeriodicalId":289072,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of FabLearn 2019","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121603187","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}
Debora Lui, Y. Kafai, Justice T. Walker, Sheri Hanna, Karen Hogan, Orkan Telhan
{"title":"A Revaluation of How We Think about Making: Examining Assembly Practices and Artifact Imagination in Biomaking","authors":"Debora Lui, Y. Kafai, Justice T. Walker, Sheri Hanna, Karen Hogan, Orkan Telhan","doi":"10.1145/3311890.3311895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311895","url":null,"abstract":"While much research focused on making emphasizes digital and tangible media, few studies have explored making with biology, or biomaking, where people use cells as fabrication units to grow or \"make\" desired materials for designing real world applications. This lack is especially glaring considering how biomaking and related industries are often aligned with a growing push toward sustainable production as a way of addressing the pressing environmental issues of the day. In order address how maker frameworks could be used as a productive way of bringing biomaking into K-12 contexts, we report on the design and implementation of a biomaking workshop where teams of high school students both assembled a physical biosensor and imagined applications for this technology to address real world issues. Using classroom observations, analysis of classroom projects, and focus group interviews, we examined student experiences and perceptions of these activities in order to ask: What the affordances and challenges of biomaking in supporting maker learning, especially with regard to the less common practices of assembly and imagining? In the discussion, we review what we learned about facilitating biomaking in K-12 setting, as well how our analysis led us to a revaluation of the often crucial but neglected role assembly plays in more 'typical' maker activities, and the possibilities for enriching maker activities by including design prototyping and imagination.","PeriodicalId":289072,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of FabLearn 2019","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125901661","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}
Feiran Zhang, P. Markopoulos, T. Bekker, Martine Schüll, M. Paule-Ruíz
{"title":"EmoForm","authors":"Feiran Zhang, P. Markopoulos, T. Bekker, Martine Schüll, M. Paule-Ruíz","doi":"10.1145/3311890.3311893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311893","url":null,"abstract":"Emotions can greatly influence the learning process. This paper presents EmoForm, a lesson based retrospective self-report tool for capturing children's emotion changes over time during Design Based Learning (DBL). So far, emotions have received little attention from the constructivist learning research community (e.g. Maker education, DBL, project based learning). Based on existing approaches for recording emotions and a model of DBL, we constructed EmoForm. We evaluated this instrument during a three month-long DBL project at a local school that involved 30 children aged 13-14. Data from 433 completed forms indicate that children are able to use this instrument to capture emotions associated with DBL experiences they engaged in. Our analysis of this data demonstrates that Emoform can help gain meaningful insights for practitioners and researchers regarding children's experience of learning through design-based projects.","PeriodicalId":289072,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of FabLearn 2019","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121200597","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":"A Mixed-Methods Approach to Investigating Proportional Reasoning Understanding in Maker-Based Integrative STEAM Projects","authors":"J. Torralba","doi":"10.1145/3311890.3311901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311901","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports findings from a Maker-based STEAM project, investigating how participation in Maker-based activities impact students' understanding of grade-level proportional reasoning state standards. In this pilot implementation, thirty students enrolled in iTEAMS, a semester-long Maker-based integrative STEAM course. Students worked in collaborative teams to complete three projects. Artifacts, final products, and oral presentations were collected from the Geometric Moving Art project and examined for the students' application of proportional reasoning standards and proficiency level demonstrated at the end of the project. Findings revealed that while pre- and post-assessments did not show a significant increase in mean scores, students demonstrated proficient understanding of proportional reasoning standards through their final products and oral presentations.","PeriodicalId":289072,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of FabLearn 2019","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116905607","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":"Educating Change-Makers: A Framework for Sustainable Making and Activist Engineering","authors":"Kelsey Reichenbach, Brandon Reynante","doi":"10.1145/3311890.3311908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311908","url":null,"abstract":"Engineers---often characterized as paragons of problem solving---are typically ill-prepared to adequately address social and environmental challenges as a result of their narrow focus on the technical dimensions of their work. In this paper we present an educational framework that integrates sustainability theories, design thinking methods, and maker education principles. We pull these three components together to motivate and empower diverse students to become \"activist engineers\" who develop holistic, systemic solutions to complex social and environmental problems through collaborative making that centers around the collective good.","PeriodicalId":289072,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of FabLearn 2019","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128611685","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 do we Learn by Observing Collaborative Design Among Cross-Domain, Cross-Role Educators?","authors":"C. Matuk, F. Tam, Jonathan Martinez","doi":"10.1145/3311890.3311923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311923","url":null,"abstract":"Designing with cross-domain, cross-role educators leads to innovations more likely to be adopted and sustained. Yet, there are few opportunities and little guidance to do so. We contrast the challenges and successes faced by two teams of members with diverse roles in education (pre/in-teacher, administrator, graduate student) during a summer institute on designing classroom-based games for learning. Descriptive cases based on video of teams' collaboration and design artifacts illustrate how members' differing views on learning impacted their collaborative experiences and the games they produced. Findings contribute to understanding the value and challenges of similar collaborations, particularly given the increasing need for learners and educators to integrate multiple perspectives.","PeriodicalId":289072,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of FabLearn 2019","volume":"81 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133203959","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}