In this session members of the Google making spaces teams from Madison Public Libraries and Digital Youth Network in Chicago will share the development of their maker programs in schools. Lead institutions will share their organizational practices and teachers will share the development of their maker programs. The two groups will look comparatively at their approaches.
Erica Halverson is a Professor of Curriculum & Instruction at UW-Madison who studies how people learn in and through the arts. She’s written a lot about it, including co-editing the Makeology books as well as an essay with Kim Sheridan that has helped to define how we study making... Read More →
Rebecca Millerjohn is the youth services librarian with the Bubbler at Madison Public Library. Rebecca is a previous six year classroom working in Houston, Texas and at Gary Comer College Prep on Chicago’s South Side. A graduate of UW’s School of Library and Information Studies... Read More →
In this session, educators, designers, and researchers will share stories and approaches for facilitating, implementing, and assessing youth game design for learning with the ARIS platform. Beth Stofflet will outline the pragmatics of classroom facilitation using as an example her middle school social science lesson in which students make games as an alternative to writing papers. Jim Mathews will discuss a range of implementations to illustrate design tradeoffs and considerations across learning contexts including in after school and place-based settings. Breanne Litts will describe strategies for capturing and assessing student learning, especially computational thinking skills, in ARIS game design activities.
