Description
Book SynopsisEnhancing Digital Literacy and Creativity is an exploration of how young children gain digital literacies in âmakerspaces.â The international authors investigate how hands-on experimentation with a variety of materials - from traditional arts and crafts to contemporary digital tools like 3D printers and laser cutters - can aid children in their development of play, creativity and storytelling. From museums to libraries, nursery schools to community centres, this research shows how âmakingâ supports the development of creative skills and introduces concepts to be explored in a variety of environments and contexts.
Drawing on examples from around the globe, described by a range of international academics, Enhancing Digital Literacy and Creativity includes chapters on:
- Virtual reality
- Museum and library makerspaces
- Intergenerational making in families
- Making in schools and nursery settings
- Assessing learning in makerspaces
- Links to previous theories
- Social imagination
This book will be a valuable resource for students and researchers in the fields of education and digital literacies; early childhood teacher educators and practitioners; librarians; museum educators; and makerspace staff.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Contributors
Chapter 1: The MakEY Project: An Introduction
Alicia Blum-Ross, Kristiina Kumpulainen and Jackie Marsh
Chapter 2: Researching Young Children’s Engagement and Learning in Makerspaces: Insights from Post-Vygotskian and Post-Human Perspectives
Michalis Kontopodis and Kristiina Kumpulainen
Chapter 3: Makeative Makerspaces: When the Pedagogy is Makeative
Klaus Thestrup and Louisa Haugaard Pedersen
Chapter 4: Makerspaces, Multiliteracies and Early Science Education: The Finnish Approach
Jenni Vartiainen and Kristiina Kumpulainen
Chapter 5: Makerspaces and Virtual Reality
Dylan Yamada-Rice, Deborah Rodrigues and Justyna Zubrycka
Chapter 6: Makerspaces in Formal and Non-Formal Learning Contexts in Iceland
Kristín Dýrfjörð, Torfi Hjartarson, Anna E. Hreiðarsdóttir, Sólveig Jakobsdóttir, Svanborg R. Jónsdóttir, Skúlína H. Kjartansdóttir, Margrét E. Ólafsdóttir, Svava Pétursdóttir, Gísli Thorsteinsson
Chapter 7: Makerspaces in the Making: Reconfiguring Cultures of Facilitation across the Kindergarten and the Science Museum
Alfredo Jornet, Hans Christian Arnseth and Ole Smørdal
Chapter 8: Types of Engagement in Makerspaces
Anca Velicu and Monica Mitarcă
Chapter 9: Assessment of Learning in STEAM-Focused Makerspaces
Louise Kay, Jackie Marsh, David Hyatt, Liz Chesworth, Bobby Nisha, Beth Nutbrown and Bryony Olney
Chapter 10: Connecting learning: Parents and young children in museum makerspaces
Alicia Blum-Ross and Sonia Livingstone
Chapter 11: Teaching for social imagination: Creativity in an early learning makerspace
Anne Burke and Abigail Crocker
Chapter 12: Conclusion
Jackie Marsh, Alicia Blum-Ross and Kristiina Kumpulainen
Afterword: Reflecting on Process
Kylie Peppler
