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Maker-Centered Learning, (Developing a Sense of Maker Empowerment: A can…
Maker-Centered Learning
Maker: Someone who engages in the act of making, perhaps even a profession like artist or sculptor or crafter
The maker community can be viewed as inclusive, embracing, and welcoming to all those who make
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Project Zero: a research center founded in 1967 that explores topics in education such as deep thinking, understanding, intelligence, creativity, and ethics
Benefits
Primary Benefits
Developing agency
Agency is a concept that is central to the eponymously named Agency by Design project and also to theories of human nature and development more broadly
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In the context of maker-centered learning, agency has to do with action-based choices related to making. (Seeing oneself as an agent of change within the designed environs of one's world)
Building character
Students develop certain aspects of character that are deeply linked and inform the way they think and feel about themselves: building competence, building confidence, and forming identities
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Constructivism: Argued that knowledge is constructed via the interaction between learners' conceptual schema and their experiences in the world to which those schema are applied
Constructionism: Argued that learning happens best when learners work directly with manipulable media—from LEGO bricks to computer code—to build things that are shareable with others.
Children's Innovation Project: Using technology as a material through which students can explore/interact with the world and notice where and how they can possibly be able to shape it.
How Transparency Affects Curiosity: The slick shells of our favorite devices do not invite one to see how the parts hidden beneath them work. (Many objects we use today lack transparency)
Developing a Sense of Maker Empowerment: A can do spirit is a feeling like you have the ability to say I can do that and then actually doing it
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