Workshop

While there are many benefits of making and makerspaces, one of the greatest challenges of implementing making in K–12 schools is the question of how to assess collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and iterative making practices and outcomes. For the past two years, MakerEd and the Playful Journey Lab has been collaborating to create the Beyond Rubrics Toolkit, …

Capturing Maker Moments: Designing Embedded Assessments for Maker Education Read More »

In this workshop we invite participants to engage in a scaffolded practice of allohistorical alternate history speculation. Speculative pasts and alternate histories have a rich tradition of being used to interrogate the ethical, cultural, intellectual, political, and economic power structures from history that shape our present world and constrain our future (Pargman et al., 2017; …

Alternative Histories: addressing the challenge of systemic imagination through allohistorical speculation Read More »

Imagine constructing a Rube Goldberg machine with friends miles (if not time zones) apart! In this workshop, we will co-construct a collaborative chain reaction over Zoom that focuses on building joyful connections. As learning designers and tinkerers from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Exploratorium in San Francisco, we believe that collaboration is core …

Building Joyful Connections with Chain Reactions Read More »