Design, Making, and Learning: Why & How

In this hangout, participants discussed how design, making, and learning are connected. Design and “shop” used to be separated from other aspects of pedagogy, but participants in this hangout interrogated how these approaches are now becoming intertwined. This hangout was hosted by Howard Rheingold and was the second in a 4-part series called “Maker-Ed: Tinkering, Inventing, Learning,” which was co-streamed at connectedlearning.tv.

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During the broadcast, the conversation also took place on Twitter using the hashtag #connectedlearning.

Guests for this webinar included:

• Howard Rheingold (host), Taught social media literacies at Berkeley and Stanford, for ten years, is the author of Net Smart and other books, and is creator and compiler of knowledge about digital media and learning at rheingold.com/learning
• Cody Allen, Teen librarian at the Billings Public Library in Montana
• Denise Blike, VISTA member in the Billings, Montana Public Library TECH Lab
• Christa Flores, Coordinator of the Hillbrook School iLab for Making, a classroom designed for analog and digital making in Los Gatos, California
• Ian Gonsher, Faculty in the School of Engineering at Brown University, where his teaching and research focus on design process and creative practice

Resources for this webinar:

• Hillbrook Makers Blog
• FabLearn Fellows free e-book
• CLTV Personal Story—Ian Gonsher: Building the Conditions for Creativity in the Classroom
• STEAMstudio – Projects
• STEAMstudio – Prototyping I
• STEAMstudio – The Creative Process
• STEAMstudio – Virtual Design
• Billings Public Library
• Billings TECH Lab on Facebook

Photo/ Ian Gonsher