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Meeting with Brigid 3/7/16 To talk about how to structure a FabLab research agenda What develops out of project-based learning? (Follow people afterwards) How would we operationalize this? Suggestion: focus more on the learning than on the lab (Ask Brigid: Anne Brown, community of learners) If we don’t have cpacity for teachers, time, curriculum, etc, it won’t be as powerful as otherwise  Schooling different in different places: Chile, Mexico, Thailand Barbara Rogoff: cultural competences  Linda Werner, Jill Denner: assessments on computational thinking (Fairy assessment) Roy & Shuchi Grover article How do we help people become better problem-solvers Brigid: “Does making matter?” Do children who make have better creative competence, persistence, develop certain kinds of expertise, better at teaching each other?  Amber: What happens when you drop these resources into the school? What are the structures that worked or didn’t work?   (Warschauer) Rorschauer 2010 investment in professional deveopment huge inequalities. Equity in general. What are kids doing with the technology? How is this different providing the resource in a high-income area?  Project-based learning, problem-based learning. Brigid and Dan. “projects can become doing for the sake of doing.” check for lit review here.  Linda Darling-Hammond + Bridig wrote a chapter on this.  Anne Brown, community of learners Grit, growth mindset, purpose, passion How would we try to meause collaboration?  “A meshing of the ethos and the medium” Are there practices that  “Deep principles” Anne Brown.  “Composing our worlds” George Lucas. Talking about Authenticity.  Kevin Crowley Kylie Peppler…Melissa Grisalthi  Curriculum  New Yorker article on Alt School Amber: Found a nugget. Keep a list of nuggets.  How do I narrow down a topic? Computational Thinking Bridig: Longitudinal case studies: Where is the computational thinking in a community? What environment is being provided to people for computaional thinking? Does the FabLab change the way this looks? **** Follow a kid

Start by getting a few topics on a piece of paper     CS, joint attention, invention.  Work bottom-up and top-down What am I passionate about? What can I spend a long time thinking about?  What’s being funded? What’s in the journal? What’s being published in JLS? (What are people excited about?) Chris: Follow up with Shuchi Grover. Getting NSF grants on CT, …