Makeology introduces the emerging landscape of the Maker Movement and its connection to interest-driven learning. While the movement is fueled in part by new tools, technologies, and online communities available to today's makers, its simultaneous emphasis on engaging the world through design and sharing with others harkens back to early educational predecessors including Froebel, Dewey, Montessori, and Papert. Makers as Learners (Volume 2) highlights leading researchers and practitioners as they discuss and share current perspectives on the Maker movement and research on educational outcomes in makerspaces. Each chapter closes with a set of practical takeaways for educators, researchers, and parents.
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
Sherry Hsi
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction to this volume
Kylie Peppler, Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, & Yasmin B. Kafai
Section 1: The Cultures and Identities of Makers
Chapter 2: Making Sense of Making: Defining Learning Practices of MAKE Magazine
Lisa Brahms & Kevin Crowley
Chapter 3: Making, Thinking, and Understanding: A Dispositional Approach to Maker-Centered Learning
Jennifer Oxman Ryan, Edward P. Clapp, Jessica Ross, & Shari Tishman
Chapter 4: Making Matters: A Framework for Assessing Digital Media Citizenship
Brigid Barron & Caitlin Martin
Chapter 5: Is Sewing a "Girl's Sport"? Addressing Gender Issues in Making with Electronic Textiles
Kristin Searle, Deborah Fields, & Yasmin B. Kafai
Chapter 6: Motivation for Making
Natalie Rusk
Section 2: The Tools and Materials of Makers
Chapter 7: From a Movie to a Movement: Caine's Arcade and the Imagination Foundation
Mike McGalliard
Chapter 8: Electronics Meets Textiles: Sewing the Way to Powerful New Ideas about Technology
Sophia Bender
Chapter 9: Bridging Crafting and Computing in Making: Designing Interactive Touchpads and Board Games with MaKey MaKey
Veena Vasudevan & Yasmin B. Kafai
Chapter 10: The Big Idea is Their Idea
Karen Wilkinson, Luigi Anzivino, & Mike Petrich
Section 3: Connecting Making to the Disciplines
Chapter 11: Making as a Pathway to Engineering and Design
Lee Martin & Colin Dixon
Chapter 12: Making, Tinkering, and Computational Literacy
Matthew Berland
Chapter 13: ReMaking Arts Education Through Physical Computing
Kylie Peppler
Closing
Chapter 14: Making-Writing-Coding
Mitchel Resnick, Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, & Dale Dougherty
About the Contributors
Index