A5002853894- Teaching and Learning Programming
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Design Education and Practice
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Literacy, Media, and Education
- Art Education and Development
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Digital Games and Media
- Online and Blended Learning
- Open Education and E-Learning
- Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
- Youth Development and Social Support
Columbia University
2019-2024
Society's ability to collectively address global challenges will require efforts include diverse voices, perspectives, and epistemologies. Building on critical design, which positions these as requiring changes in our values beliefs, we examine the nature potential of a constructionist design framework within an Afrofuturist aesthetic. This invites Black youth critically social, economic, environmental systems by both connecting personal family histories well reflecting local lived...
Colombia faces the dual challenge of integrating into civil life two large segments population; more than fourteen thousand FARC-EP ex-combatants, as part peace agreement to end five-decade conflict between that armed group and Colombian Government, nearly million Venezuelan migrants. Successful integration heavily depends on fostering public acceptance these groups. Prior research by Halperin et al. (Psychol Sci 24:106-11, 2013) Hurtado-Parrado (Front Psychol 10: 1-9, 2019) demonstrated...
While maker education offers a method for increasing interest in STEM domains among youth, underrepresented communities possess rich cultural history of making and practices too often ignored by popular articulations making. In this paper we describe the 8-week ReMixing Wakanda Project, which brings together youth color, artists, designers, educators, researchers to construct new vision culturally relevant sustaining STEAM-centered learning framework situated an Afrofuturist design...
This paper explores the design of tools and pedagogies for bio-design understood as a space children to create challenge nature-culture dualism that underpins environmental crisis. By blurring boundaries between learning practices making growing, allows learners imagine what it means produce artifacts at frontier natural artificial. We propose concept interspecies creative advance in understanding experiences engage humans other living systems joint discovery. Using design-based research, we...
Biomaking as a genre of maker education, offers unexplored avenues for enhancing our comprehension interspecies relations. This paper explores how novice biomarkers perceive and acknowledge the presence agency other organisms in their creative processes. Analyzing processes 12-year-old children building mycelium sculptures, study identifies pivotal moments realization or transformation using video data from three making sessions. Employing time-based analysis, dynamic interactions between...
Colombia currently faces the challenge of integrating into civil life two large segments population: over fourteen thousand FARC-EP ex-combatants from peace agreements after five decades conflict, and nearly million Venezuelan migrants. Successful integration heavily depends on fostering public acceptance these groups. Prior research by Halperin et al. (2013) Hurtado-Parrado (2019) demonstrated effectiveness reappraisal training, a brief emotion-regulation intervention, in reducing negative...
The COVID-19 pandemic raised awareness of the need for expanding vision how we can support collaboration across distributed communities making educators and learners.However, this raises critical questions surrounding these learners to authentically engage with practices, mentorship, skill acquisition, social interactions that sit at heart effective maker education initiatives.To end, symposium brings together experts in collaborative a distance highlight many innovations being developed...
In response to the tendency of making control and harness material world, we propose 'creative pluriverse,' which can fit many worlds, as a framework design study possibility multispecies multimattered creativity.We ground this concept in process philosophies, theories embodied cognition, ecological materialism advance posthumanist conception creative making.Using design-based research approach, reimagine making, particularly biomaking with fungi, 'dialogue without words' that nurtures...
Computational thinking skills have been shown to a unique cross-curricular relevance. Developing these in children using constructionist design deliver personally meaningful computational experiences could lead improved dispositions and attitudes towards other forms of STEM learning. The Secret Communication Panel is toy the form secret communications device that allows create their own highly personalized communication environment.
As its core, the environmental crisis demands humans to critically reflect on their relationship natural environment. This case study explores how three mothers and daughters from different ethnic cultural backgrounds understand nature as they express with it in context of a low-tech maker workshop. The activity used Critical Constructionist Design engage participants cycle connecting back personal family histories, reflecting circumstances order project forward design alternative futures....