Getting Started with Making-Learning and Where to Go from There

In this hangout, participants discussed how to get started making-learning with a cohort of learners. They also shared their ideas and strategies for how to proceed with making-learning, whether in an educational institution, library, makerspace, or after-school program. This hangout was hosted by Howard Rheingold and was the third in a 4-part series called “Maker-Ed: Tinkering, Inventing, Learning,” which was being co-streamed at connectedlearning.tv.

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During the broadcast, the conversation also took place on Twitter using the hashtag #connectedlearning.

Guests for this webinar will include:

• Howard Rheingold (host), Taught social media literacies at Berkeley and Stanford, for ten years, is author of Net Smart and other books, and is creator and compiler of knowledge about digital media and learning at rheingold.com/learning
• AJ Almaguer, Independent Maker & Consultant and former Engineering Educator of the TechHive Teen program
• Lisa Brahms, Director of Learning and Research at The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and project lead for the museum’s newest permanent exhibit, the MakeShop
• Sherry Hsi, Senior Researcher at the Concord Consortium and Founder of the TechHive Teen program
• Kylie Peppler, Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences & Director of The Creativity Labs at Indiana University Bloomington

Resources for this webinar:

• Tinkering and Thinking with Maker Kylie Peppler
• Kylie Peppler
• TechHive at the Lawrence Hall of Science
• TechHive Presents: The Robot Petting Zoo Makeathon
• Mole a Whack: Maker Faire 2015 presented by TechHive at the Lawrence Hall of Science
• Paper Mechatronics Project
• Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
• MAKESHOP at Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
• Howtosmile.org
• White Paper on the Learning Practices of Making
• Making & Learning
• MakerEd
• Makeology: Makerspaces as Learning Environments (Volume 1)
• Makeology: Makers as Learners (Volume 2)
• Interconnections: Understanding Systems through Digital Design (at NWP’s Digital Is)
• Ziro Cardboard Electronics Toolkit
• Pataphysical Studios

Photo/ John Morgan