Kylie Peppler is Associate Professor of Learning Sciences at Indiana University. An artist by training, she engages in research that focuses on the intersection of arts, media, new technologies, and informal learning. Her current work focuses on maker culture.

Erica Rosenfeld Halverson is Associate Professor of Digital Media and Literacy in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work focuses on what it means to learn in and through the arts across a range of contexts, including out-of-school arts organizations, museums, libraries, and arts-based classrooms.

Yasmin B. Kafai is Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a researcher and developer of tools, communities, and materials to promote computational participation, crafting, and creativity across K-16.

Foreword

Dale Dougherty

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction to this volume

Kylie Peppler, Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, & Yasmin B. Kafai

Section 1: Out-of-School Makerspaces

Chapter 2: Learning to Make in the Museum: The Role of Maker Educators

Lisa Brahms & Kevin Crowley

Chapter 3: Designing for Resourcefulness in a Community-Based Makerspace

Kimberly M. Sheridan & Abigail Konopasky,

Chapter 4: Family Creative Learning

Ricarose Roque

Chapter 5: Children are not Hackers: Building a Culture of Powerful Ideas, Deep Learning, and Equity in the Maker Movement

Paulo Blikstein & Marcelo Worsley

Section 2: Makerspaces in P-16 education

Chapter 6: Design Playshop: Preschoolers Making, Playing, and Learning with Squishy Circuits

Karen Wohlwend, Anna Keune & Kylie Peppler

Chapter 7: Taking Making to School: A Model for Integrating Making into Classrooms

Peter Samuelson Wardrip & Lisa Brahms

Chapter 8: The Composition of Making

Christina Cantrill & Paul Oh

Chapter 9: Craft Technologies 101: Bringing Making to Higher Education

Deborah A. Fields & Victor R. Lee

Section 3: Online Makerspaces

Chapter 10: The Make-to-Learn Youth Contest: Gaining Youth Perspectives on Learning Through Making

Kylie Peppler & Ted Hall

Chapter 11: Tinkering Online: Digital Supports for Making and Sharing

Matt Rafalow

Chapter 12: Tinkering with MOOCS and Social Media

Mike Petrich, Karen Wilkinson & Bronwyn Bevan

Chapter 13: The Role of Online Communication in a Maker Community

Breanne K. Litts, Utah State University

Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, & Maria Bakker

Section 4: Designing for Making

Chapter 14: Paper Electronics with Circuit Stickers

Jie Qi, Natalie Freed, Jennifer Dick, & David Cole

Chapter 15: Designing for Connected Making: Supports for Collaboration and Community Building in Crafting Activities

Orkan Telhan, Yasmin B. Kafai, & Breanne K. Litts

Chapter 16: Build in Progress: Building Process-Oriented Documentation

Tiffany Tseng

Closing

Chapter 17: Developing a Maker Mindset

Lisa Regalla

About the Contributors

Index