Educational initiatives that emphasize making, design, and tinkering are becoming increasingly popular in K-12 education. Through afterschool programs, technology classes, and integrated maker classes, young people are being encouraged to “learn to make” and “make to learn.” In this mini-course, researchers from Project Zero’s Agency by Design initiative and collaborating practitioners will present the teaching and learning opportunities offered by these kinds of experiences. Participants will engage in a series of hands-on activities aimed at cultivating observation skills and encouraging critical analysis of the made dimensions of our world. Participants will then consider how learning environments may best be designed to support building, tinkering, making, and hacking. Presenters will draw on Project Zero’s Agency by Design project to explore the unique practices and environments where maker learning takes place.

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/programs/prek-12/portfolio/left.html