Creating an Educational Ecosystem for Design, Personal Fabrication and Invention Export

@incollection{CLEE_1_21, abstract = {This chapter describes Learn 2 Teach: Teach 2 Learn (L2T:T2L), a program mobilizing teens in their out-of-school time to gain knowledge in technology-rich domains and to create their own ways to share knowledge with their younger peers. The program is examined with a Community of Practice lens to show how participants share understandings of designing with technology amongst themselves and with others in their community. Applying such a lens to this community's evolution from 2003 to 2006 reveals multiple, interconnected Communities of Practice that create an ecosystem for engaging youth with hands-on activities related to emerging technological ideas such as personal fabrication in ways that United States public schools, in the main, have not widely adopted. The focus in this chapter on a Personal Fabrication Community of Practice shows how the signature-approach to teaching and learning in L2T:T2L helps promote creativity and critical thinking within tomorrow's technology innovators.}, address = {Charlotte, NC}, author = {Millner, Amon D. and Daily, Shaundra B.}, booktitle = {Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators}, chapter = {21}, citeulike-article-id = {2662146}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_1/Chapters/Chapter_21.html}, editor = {Kimble, Chris and Hildreth, Paul}, keywords = {after\_school\_programmes, book, clee, diversity, informal\_learning\_environment, mentoring, personal\_fabrication, secondary\_schools, summer\_programmes, technology\_design}, pages = {403--428}, posted-at = {2008-04-12 20:47:40}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Information Age Publishing}, title = {Creating an Educational Ecosystem for Design, Personal Fabrication and Invention}, url = {http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_1/Chapters/Chapter_21.html}, volume = {1}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - CLEE_1_21 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2662146 N2 - This chapter describes Learn 2 Teach: Teach 2 Learn (L2T:T2L), a program mobilizing teens in their out-of-school time to gain knowledge in technology-rich domains and to create their own ways to share knowledge with their younger peers. The program is examined with a Community of Practice lens to show how participants share understandings of designing with technology amongst themselves and with others in their community. Applying such a lens to this community's evolution from 2003 to 2006 reveals multiple, interconnected Communities of Practice that create an ecosystem for engaging youth with hands-on activities related to emerging technological ideas such as personal fabrication in ways that United States public schools, in the main, have not widely adopted. The focus in this chapter on a Personal Fabrication Community of Practice shows how the signature-approach to teaching and learning in L2T:T2L helps promote creativity and critical thinking within tomorrow's technology innovators. AD - Charlotte, NC EP - 428 TI - Creating an Educational Ecosystem for Design, Personal Fabrication and Invention PB - Information Age Publishing VL - 1 T2 - Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators SP - 403 KW - after_school_programmes KW - book KW - clee KW - diversity KW - informal_learning_environment KW - mentoring KW - personal_fabrication KW - secondary_schools KW - summer_programmes KW - technology_design AU - Millner, Amon AU - Daily, Shaundra A2 - Kimble, Chris A2 - Hildreth, Paul PY - 2008/// UR - http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_1/Chapters/Chapter_21.html ER -