15. Creative STEM learning focused on collaboration,
creativity and problem-solving.
Hands-on engagement that connects engineering
journals and sketchbooks with conductive
materials and surface-mount electronics.
16. 21c Notebooking as a Tool for Connected Learning
Learning
Principles
• Interest-powered
• Peer
supported
• Academically
oriented
Design
Principles
• Production-centered
• Openly
networked
• Shared
purpose
Core Values
• Equity
• Social
connection
• Full
participation
17. Jie Qi, MIT Media Lab
Pu Gong Ying
Interactive Painting
18.
19. Jie Qi, MIT Media Lab
Pu Gong Ying
Interactive Painting
As libraries and museums work to make their educational programming relevant for young people, we see outcomes like this Maker Night at the San Jose Public Library this summer.
This happens to be work related to paper circuitry, an effort to marry creative expression with technical expertise through the use of LED stickers, copper tape and watch batteries.
Young people are given opportunities to be producers. And not just creators of anything. They’re creators of artifacts that are powered by their imagination.
I’ve seen kids create light-up cards, illuminate a hand-drawn dragon’s eyes, power words in their notebooks. And they do this by learning how circuits work because they make circuits themselves. The application is immediate and visceral.
The Philadelphia Free Library, a YouMedia site, also held a series of notebook hacking/paper circuitry events for young people and mentors.
And in conjunction with the paper circuitry work radiating throughout library maker spaces, we also led educators through professional learning related to paper circuitry.
These shots were taken from a summer institute in Las Vegas. You can see how the paper circuits work – the circuitry is actually on the page behind the drawings and text.
With the result that they brought this production-centered work back to their classrooms. Here, Lou Buran, explains to one of his students how to program the LED stickers so that they blink at particular intervals.
This is not a super arresting video visually.
But pay attention to the conversation Lou has with his student – how she immediately considers ways she can apply this technical knowledge to her interest in music.
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I’ve focused on one particular effort, paper circuitry and notebook hacking. But I could have just as easily been talking about programming with Scratch or media production or YPAR – youth participatory action research - projects.
They all have the ability to leverage the notion of a learning ecosystem.
The critical piece here in my mind is the pedagogical framework of Connected Learning for a Connected World.