RESOURCES:
Related Work
- MakeyMakey : http://www.makeymakey.com/
- Arduino: http://www.arduino.cc/
- Lilypad: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardLilyPad
- Lego NEXT: http://mindstorms.lego.com/en–us/Default.aspx
- BOXES: Building Open Expandable Systems: http://makebox.es
- Technology Will Save Us: http://technologywillsaveus.org
- Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu
- Squishy Circuits: http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/
Curriculum:
- Scrapyard Jr.: https://sites.google.com/site/scrapchalljr/
- Curriculum folder on our google docs site
Organizations
- NSF: Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) : http://nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=DRL
- CAISE – Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education: http://caise.insci.org/
- IEEE / ISEC: http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/stem/
- ACM: http://www.acm.org/
- MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning (DML): http://dmlcentral.net/projects/3734
Reading: Katherine Moriwaki and Jonah Brucker-Cohen, “Lessons from the scrapyard: creative uses of found materials within a workshop setting,” AI & SOCIETY 20, no. 4 (March 15, 2006): 506-525.
http://www.scrapyardchallenge.com/scrapchall/wp–content/uploads/2011/08/Brucker.pdf
Katherine Moriwaki, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Louisa Campbell, Joseph M. Saavedra, Liza Stark, Liz Taylor “Scrapyard Challenge Jr., Adapting an Art and Design Workshop to Support STEM to STEAM Learning Experiences” (IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference 2012)
http://www.jr.scrapyardchallenge.com/ISEC_Scrap_Jr_Paper.pdf
“Archive of NSF/RISD Bridging STEM to STEAM Workshop,” STEM to STEAM, March 2011,http://stemtosteam.org/archive/?page_id=428.
Mitchel Resnick and Brian Silverman, “Some reflections on designing construction kits for kids” (ACM Press, 2005), 117-122,http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1109556.
Resnick, M. (2007). AllIReallyNeedtoKnow (AboutCreativeThinking) ILearned (ByStudyingHowChildrenLearn) inKindergarten. ACM Creativity & Cognition conference, Washington DC, June 2007.