MFADT: THESIS STUDIO 1

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.