Creating an Educational Ecosystem for Design, Personal Fabrication and Invention
A. Millner, and S. Daily. Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators, 1, chapter 21, Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, (2008)
Abstract
This chapter describes Learn 2 Teach: Teach 2 Learn (L2T:T2L), a program mobilizing teens in their out-of-school time to gain knowledge in technology-rich domains and to create their own ways to share knowledge with their younger peers. The program is examined with a Community of Practice lens to show how participants share understandings of designing with technology amongst themselves and with others in their community. Applying such a lens to this community's evolution from 2003 to 2006 reveals multiple, interconnected Communities of Practice that create an ecosystem for engaging youth with hands-on activities related to emerging technological ideas such as personal fabrication in ways that United States public schools, in the main, have not widely adopted. The focus in this chapter on a Personal Fabrication Community of Practice shows how the signature-approach to teaching and learning in L2T:T2L helps promote creativity and critical thinking within tomorrow's technology innovators.
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%A Millner, Amon Daran
%A Daily, Shaundra Bryant
%B Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators
%C Charlotte, NC
%D 2008
%E Kimble, Chris
%E Hildreth, Paul
%I Information Age Publishing
%K After_School_Programmes Diversity Informal_Learning_Environment Mentoring Personal_Fabrication Secondary_Schools Summer_Programmes Technology_Design
%P 403--428
%T Creating an Educational Ecosystem for Design, Personal Fabrication and Invention
%U http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_1/Chapters/Chapter_21.html
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%X This chapter describes Learn 2 Teach: Teach 2 Learn (L2T:T2L), a program mobilizing teens in their out-of-school time to gain knowledge in technology-rich domains and to create their own ways to share knowledge with their younger peers. The program is examined with a Community of Practice lens to show how participants share understandings of designing with technology amongst themselves and with others in their community. Applying such a lens to this community's evolution from 2003 to 2006 reveals multiple, interconnected Communities of Practice that create an ecosystem for engaging youth with hands-on activities related to emerging technological ideas such as personal fabrication in ways that United States public schools, in the main, have not widely adopted. The focus in this chapter on a Personal Fabrication Community of Practice shows how the signature-approach to teaching and learning in L2T:T2L helps promote creativity and critical thinking within tomorrow's technology innovators.
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title = {Creating an Educational Ecosystem for Design, Personal Fabrication and Invention},
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