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  • Tinkering: Addressing the Adults. Exploring Tinkering with Adult Learners: What we learned. A guide for museums and other informal learning and science engagement organizations
    Date: 08/30/2022
    Resource Category!: Report
    This guide gathers the ultimate reflections from the Erasmus+ project "Tinkering EU: Addressing the Adults." It was created for science centers, museums and other places of science education interested in exploring the potential of Tinkering for inclusive learning and engagement. It presents lessons learned about: The co-design and the development ... »
  • Tinkering: Addressing the Adults. Tinkering Activity Plans
    Date: 02/17/2022
    Resource Category!: Report
    A practical guide containing descriptions of 11 Tinkering activities for adult learners. It can be used by community development and informal learning practitioners working with adult groups. Some of the activities were newly developed while others were adjusted from already existing and tested activities. Special focus is given to activities ... »
  • Multi-Generational STEM Makerspaces in Affordable Housing: Co-Designing a Model with the Community
    Date: 07/01/2020
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    Makerspaces are learning environments that engage participants in authentic science and engineering practices, using hands-on and collaborative approaches to support activities and projects that foster creativity, interest, and skill development. Recently there has been a rapid growth of makerspaces in schools and in informal places like museums, ... »
  • Investigating Measurement of STEM Engagement and Advocacy in Older Adults
    Date: 09/01/2019
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    While prior research has explored the reasons adults seek learning opportunities, little is known about the factors that moderate older adults' desire to participate in particular learning experiences. This study will contribute to understanding strategies that engage older adults in STEM learning in informal settings. The specific informal STEM ... »
  • Tinkering: Addressing the Adults. A Theoretical and Methodological Framework
    Date: 09/01/2019
    Resource Category!: Report
    Tinkering is an approach to learning increasingly adopted within informal learning settings to engage people with STEM learning (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). It builds on ideas in inquiry-based pedagogy and exploits some of the most engaging and motivational elements of learner-centered, immersive and hands-on learning ... »
  • Tinkering EU: Addressing the adults
    Date: 09/01/2019
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    This project continues the work of "Tinkering EU: Contemporary Education for Innovators of Tomorrow" that introduced Tinkering methodology in Europe. It also builds upon the work of "Tinkering EU: Building Science Capital for ALL" that explored Tinkering and Science Capital with a specific focus on teachers and students from disadvantaged ... »
  • Physical Context: The Role of Tinkering in End-User Programmer Success
    Date: 10/01/2018
    Resource Category!: Report
    Participants in this study reported a variety of resources used in the past to learn to code in Apex, including online tutorials, one-day classes sponsored by Salesforce, and meet-up groups focused on learning. They reported various difficulties in learning through these resources, including what they viewed as the gendered nature of classes where ... »
  • Social justice and out-of-school science learning: Exploring equity in science television, science clubs and maker spaces
    Date: 05/29/2017
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Ideas from social justice can help us understand how equity issues are woven through out-of-school science learning practices. In this paper, I outline how social justice theories, in combination with the concepts of infrastructure access, literacies and community acceptance, can be used to think about equity in out-of-school science learning. I ... »
  • Learning to Make in Museums: The Role of Maker Educators
    Date: 01/01/2016
    Resource Category!: Edited Chapter
    In this chapter, we explore making as a learning process in the context of a museum-based maker space designed for family participation. In particular, we focus on young children, and their adult learning partners, as an important demographic to consider and for which to design making environments and experiences. Importantly, we take a close look ... »
  • Radiolab: What Curiosity Sounds Like Summative Evaluation
    Date: 10/01/2014
    Resource Category!: Summative
    This report summarizes evaluative findings from a project titled “What Curiosity Sounds Like: Discovering, Challenging, and Sharing Scientific Ideas” (a.k.a.: “Discovery Dialogues”). The project, a Full-Scale development project funded by the National Science Foundation as part of its Advancing Informal Science Learning (AISL) program, explored ... »