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  • Developing equitable practice with youth in makerspaces: Ideas and case studies from the Making Spaces project
    Date: 10/04/2022
    Resource Category!: Report
    The Making Spaces project aims to contribute to a longer-term vision of a future where all UK makerspaces can be vehicles for social justice, offering spaces and resources for a wide range of communities to enhance and improve their lives, wellbeing and agency through STEM-rich making in ways that feel authentic, respectful and value the wisdom, ... »
  • 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 ... »
  • 2021 Poster - Telelab: Broadcast Your Scientific Discoveries
    Date: 11/15/2021
    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. To engage youth in global challenges such as energy issues, students’ own community can serve as personally relevant venues for scientific inquiry. For example, after students learn about heat transfer in school, they can use this knowledge to inspect the energy efficiency of their ... »
  • Major Taylor: World’s Fastest Cyclist
    Date: 09/01/2021
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites will create a hands-on, immersive experience about legendary African American cyclist Marshall “Major” Taylor. The exhibit will feature a 1900-era locker room, a bicycle shop that demonstrates how bike design impacts performance, and three trophies Taylor won overseas. Visitors will be able to assemble ... »
  • Social Robots and the Production of Space: Exploring the Socio-Spatial Dimensions of Human-Robot Interaction
    Date: 08/15/2021
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    This project investigates long-term human-robot interaction outside of controlled laboratory settings to better understand how the introduction of robots and the development of socially-aware behaviors work to transform the spaces of everyday life, including how spaces are planned and managed, used, and experienced. Focusing on tour-guiding robots ... »
  • Engaging in Energy Communities: The role of the researcher (A workbook and planning guide)
    Date: 06/01/2021
    Resource Category!: Book
    This workbook / planning guide was designed as an outreach tool to support students and early-career researchers who are studying the social impacts of energy development and wish to better understand and mitigate “research fatigue,” a state in which citizens of a community who are already experiencing massive change may be exhausted by additional ... »
  • Understanding and Addressing Research Fatigue in Rural Communities—An online course with digital badge
    Date: 06/01/2021
    Resource Category!: Webinar
    This short (approximately 2-3 hours), self-paced non-credit learning module is designed for those new to conducting research in communities impacted by energy development. You will learn about the concept of “research fatigue” and become more prepared for fieldwork by learning what to expect when you visit energy-impacted communities. Access is ... »
  • Community Making: An Expansive View of Curriculum
    Date: 06/01/2021
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Making as a term has gained attention in the educational field. It signals many different meanings to many different groups, yet is not clearly defined. This project’s researchers refer to making as a term that bears social and cultural impact but with a broader more sociocultural association than definitions that center making in STEM learning. ... »
  • Collaboration and Competition in Exhibit Facilitation Around Energy Literacy
    Date: 03/05/2021
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    In this study we explore two different faciitation styles, collaboration and competition, in an 1-hour long, highly interactive, digital experience called Future Energy Chicago . The aim of the faciliations is to affect guests' energy literacy, that is their knowledge of, and their attitude and behavior toward energy conservation. In the ... »
  • Understanding and Improving Data Visualization Literacy: Compiling Front-end Evaluation and Partial Summative Evaluation Data
    Date: 10/07/2020
    Resource Category!: Summative
    Sense-making with data through the process of visualization—recognizing and constructing meaning with these data—has been of interest to learning researchers for many years. Results of a variety of data visualization projects in museums and science centers suggest that visitors have a rudimentary understanding of and ability to interpret the data ... »

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