Schedule Overview:
Searchable List of Submission Titles, Authors, and Locations
Additional session-specific information can be found on the following pages and in the detailed schedule below:
Detailed Schedule:
Saturday, October 7
8:00AM-9:00AM
Registration – Cowin Auditorium
Sat/Sun Registration is located at the Broadway St. entrance to Teachers College, Columbia University (3040 Broadway, New York, NY 10027)
Coffee and refreshments on the second floor hallway of Horace Mann.
9:00AM-9:30AM
Opening / Welcome – Cowin Auditorium
9:30AM-10:30AM
Keynote: Yasmin Kafai – Cowin Auditorium
Our first keynote presenter, Yasmin Kafai, has some homework for us! Yasmin and Luis Morales-Navarro have written a draft paper called, “Twenty Things to Do with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.” Building on the constructionist tradition started by Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon, Yasmin and Luis invite our community to articulate and showcase ways to build, create, and think with AI and ML. Before we gather on Saturday, try to find a few minutes to read the draft paper and consider suggesting some new “things to do” in a community padlet.
10:30AM-10:45AM
Break
Coffee and refreshments on the second floor hallway of Horace Mann.
10:45AM-11:45AM
Panels – FabLearn Fellows | Play and Wellbeing
| Location | Topic |
|---|---|
| Cowin Auditorium | FabLearn Fellows Panel |
| Milbank Chapel | Play and Wellbeing with Haeny Yoon, Lalitha Vasudevan, Mathew Berland, Nathan Holbert and Brian Cohen |
11:45AM-12:15PM
Young Maker Poster Madness – Cowin Auditorium
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12:15PM-2:15PM
Young Maker Posters | Lunch – Smith Learning Theater & Dining Hall
Young Maker Posters – Smith Learning Theater
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Accessibility for obese, wheelchair and hearing impaired people on airplanes | Maria Carolina Muniz Moreira Leite and Maria Helena Aranha Fraga |
| Building a glove-controlled drone | Emre Gots |
| DJ sampler | Isabela Elgarten, Maria Isabel Brito, Isabel Svartman and Sofia Rosa |
| Energym | Bruna Dias Borges, José Milton Silveira Nascimento Neto, Thiago Vaz and Dan Loureiro Nascimento |
| Riley-Day Project | Aloysio Veiga Rodeiro Nery, Marcela Franco dos Santos, Thiago Vaz and Dan Loureiro Nascimento |
| Stroke Awareness Pursuit: Educational Toy for Instructing Stroke First Aid | Napapat Kiratikammolchai, Patnaree Balakul and Tridhawan Kangsathein |
| Back to myself | Nicole Ortiz, Letícia Alfano and Thiago Vaz |
| A Study On The Design And Manufacturing Of Mechanical Sculptures: The Blooming Flowers Automata | Ceren Dolu and Sedat Yalçın |
| Smart care: Use of Artificial Intelligence in the public health system | Alexandre Matyas Sennyey Vezzali, Caio Pereira Ricci, Eduardo Achkar Avancini, Pedro Laudisio Henriques and Andre Lozano Ferreira |
| Smart glove: Exploiting Internet of Things (IoT) solutions | Layla Maluf de Sampaio Moreira, Lígia Garcia de Freitas Souza and Andre Lozano Ferreira |
| Constructionism applied to solving real problems: Landslide monitoring project | Felipe Amorim Ferraz, Helena Consane dos Santos Biazzo, Henrique Roldan Ambrogi, João Vitor Oliva Battiferro, Manuela Chevrier Marques and Andre Lozano Ferreira |
| Healthy meal delivery drone: STEM approach to the problem of displacement in large cities | Tomás Moherdaui Bernardoni and Tatiana de Souza Mendes Garcia |
Lunch at Grace Dodge Dining Hall
2:15PM-3:15PM
Paper Presentations – Cowin, Milbank & Learning Theater
Full Paper 1 – Making and Identity – Cowin Auditorium
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| David Feldon and Colby Tofel-Grehl | Constructionist Measurement: Using Making to Understand Multifaceted Identity |
| Juan Gutierrez, Xi Yu, Maria C. Olivares, Eli Tucker-Raymond, Ashley Houston-King, Clifford Freeman and Katherine K. Frankel | Youth Pedagogical Development in Youth Teaching Rehearsals |
| Ashita Bawankule, David Hopping, Mike Tissenbaum, Howard Weatherspoon and Margie Ruffin | Fostering Maker Identity and Collaboration: Affordances of the Connected Spaces Dashboard in Two Afterschool Makerspaces |
Full Paper 2 – Maker Pedagogy – Milbank Chapel
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Deborah Fields, Yasmin Kafai and Yanil De La Rosa-Walcott | When Good Gets Better: Experienced Computer Science Teachers’ Reflections on implementing E-textiles in their Classrooms as a Vehicle for Advancing Equity |
| Annemiek Veldhuis, Yumiko Murai, Anna Lin, Kristiina Kumpulainen and Alissa N. Antle | Reimagining Assessment for Maker Education in Elementary Education: Findings from a Values-led Co-Design Workshop with Teachers |
Special: Constructionist/Maker Futures 1 – Futures of Play – Smith Learning Theater
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Ken Kahn | Programming as a Dialogue with GPT-4 |
| Gary Stager | Generative AI as Mathland and Constructionist Frontier |
| Soobin Jeon and Jeein Jeon | Mathematical Constructions in Makerspaces |
3:25PM-4:25PM
Educator Paper Sessions – Cowin, Milbank & Learning Theater
Educator 1 – Design for Social Good – Cowin Auditorium
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Priscila Resinentti and Sergio Junior | Empathy, Cooperation and Digital Culture: learning rights with an inclusive perspective |
| Oded Shorer, Lesa Wang and Jaymes Dec | Global Sparkathon: A Constructionist Approach to Tackling Plastic Pollution |
| Heather Pang, Bridget Rigby, Sarah Barnum, Helen Shanks, Nico Gallo and Wendy Cruz | Integrating Digital Fabrication for Social Good |
| Jordan Mendes and Thiago Vaz | PASTICATING: Students creating products with plastic that would go to the garbage |
Educator 2 – Teacher Education – Milbank Chapel
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Claudia Corriveau, Doris Jeannotte, Emmanuel Houde, Camille Lefebvre and Roxanne Labbé | The Design of Manipulatives to Reflect on Mathematics Teaching and Learning |
| Mariana Lederman Edelstein, Claudia Peria Godinho, Paola Salmona Ricci, Cassia Fernandez and Tatiana Hochgreb-Haegele | A Practice-Based Science Learning Workshop – From Design to Learning Implications |
| Bernhard Standl | Success Through Failure: A Constructionist Seminar Design for Pre-Service Computer Science Teachers on Apps with Flutter |
| Mariana Lederman Edelstein and Mayra Capelossi | Enhancing Mathematics Education: An Elementary School Student-Centered Project |
Educator 3 – Integrating Making and Content – Smith Learning Theater
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Mindy Perry, Sherri Kushner, Marcelo Worsley, Stephanie T. Jones and Sarah Priscilla Lee | The Journey of Two Makers/Educators |
| Susan Sweeney | The enhancement of constructionist activities in private higher education institutions in Ireland through the integration of visual, technological and human literacies |
| Crystal Smith | Visual Embedded Assessment: Fostering the Development of Critical Dispositions in Maker Education |
4:25PM-4:40PM
Break
Coffee and refreshments on the second floor hallway of Horace Mann.
4:40PM-5:40PM
Young Makers Panel – Cowin Auditorium
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Aloysio Veiga Rodeiro Nery, Marcela Franco dos Santos, Thiago Vaz and Dan Loureiro Nascimento | Riley-Day Project |
| Napapat Kiratikammolchai, Patnaree Balakul and Tridhawan Kangsathein | Stroke Awareness Pursuit: Educational Toy for Instructing Stroke First Aid |
| Nicole Ortiz, Letícia Alfano and Thiago Vaz | Back to myself |
| Ceren Dolu and Sedat Yalçın | A Study On The Design And Manufacturing Of Mechanical Sculptures: The Blooming Flowers Automata |
| Layla Maluf de Sampaio Moreira, Lígia Garcia de Freitas Souza and Andre Lozano Ferreira | Smart glove: Exploiting Internet of Things (IoT) solutions |
Sunday, October 8
8:00AM-8:30AM
Registration – Cowin Auditorium
Sat/Sun Registration is located at the Broadway St. entrance to Teachers College, Columbia University (3040 Broadway, New York, NY 10027)
Coffee and light refreshments on the second floor hallway of Horace Mann
8:30AM-10:20AM
Barcamp – Smith Learning Theater | Workshops – Various classrooms
Barcamp
The Barcamp will be held concurrently with the workshops in the Smith Learning Theater. No registration required. The topics of conversation will be decided by participants at the event! Click here for more information. And check out the Padlet with session proposals.
Sunday Workshops
| Title | Author | Location |
|---|---|---|
| FabFolio: Student Portfolios to Elevate STEM Essential Skills and Technical Fluency | Kristin Burrus, Emily Hurst | Horace Mann 142 |
| Tinker with a View: Share your story with code and cardboard using OctoStudio | Ryoko Matsumoto, Sebastian Martin, Carolina Rodeghiero, Natalie Rusk, Ronni Hayden, Ricarose Roque | Horace Mann 152 |
| Strings are the New Numbers: Exploring the Programmatic Use of Large Language Models as Microworlds | Jaymes Dec | Horace Mann 148 |
| Repair: Bring a second life to objects | Erin Riley and Aaron Vanderwerff | Horace Mann 433 |
| What can we do with generative AI in our classrooms? | Katherine Moore, Sarah Wharton, Eric Klopfer | Horace Mann 144 |
| Space-bending Exploration: Empowering K-12 Educators and Students with IoT | Arnan (Roger) Sipitakiat, Nancy Otero, Walter Akio Goya | Thompson Hall 322i |
| Engineering with Paper: Explore Spatial Reasoning and CAD with Simple Supplies | Godwyn Morris | Horace Mann 150 |
| The Joy of TurtleStitching Curves and Quotes | Dr. Cynthia Solomon, Dr. Susan Klimczak, 3-5 Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn College Mentors & Youth Teachers | Thompson Hall 322 |
10:30AM-10:45PM
Opening / Awards
10:45AM-11:45AM
Keynote: Yamilée Youssaint Beach – Cowin Auditorium
Reimagining Joy in STEM
Black and Latinx girls are often unfairly seen only through a lens of trauma and pain. To counter this narrative, which wrongly suggests that they can’t enjoy the same experiences and freedoms as their white counterparts, we must celebrate joy. For Yamilee Toussaint, dance became a gateway to that transformative joy, sparking the energy she needed to drive change. Through dance, she connected with a sense of innocence and liberation, fostering a belief that the realm of possibilities was limitless, including a future as an engineer.
Over the past decade, Yamilee has encountered countless girls who’ve been told what they cannot achieve. Yet, we have the ability to create spaces where these girls can experience unadulterated joy. By doing so, we have the potential to reshape an entire generation of Black and brown girls, empowering them to rewrite history.
11:45AM-12:15PM
Poster Madness – Cowin Auditorium
12:15PM-2:15PM
Lunch in Cafeteria – Dining Hall
2:15PM-3:15PM
Educator Paper Sessions – Thompson Hall 136, Milbank, Cowin
Educator 4 – Collaborative Partnerships and Building Networks – Thompson Hall 136
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Aline T R Siqueira, Paola Salmona Ricci, Franciele Gomes and Liana M V Macedo | Constructionist Circles of Inventions and the Writing Workshop |
| Florencia Talmon and Florencia Peirano | Expanding the scope of makerspaces in Uruguay |
| Charles Pimentel, Érika Soares, Isaac D’Césares, Letícia Alfradique and Maria Luiza Machado Campos | Academia and Basic Education Integration: a collaborative approach boosting Maker Education in the public education network in Tanguá |
Educator 5 – Creative Computing Classrooms – Milbank Chapel
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Chris Stinson, Robert Monahan, Jessica Vandenberg, Andy Smith, James Minogue, Kevin Oliver, Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua, Cathy Ringstaff and Bradford Mott | Constructing Knowledge, Deconstructing Classrooms: The InfuseCS Experience |
| Margaret Minsky and Yuchen Li | Exploring a Computer Embroidery Swatchbook in a University Classroom |
| Emma Brown | Making with Code: Web Apps Unit Retrospective |
Educator 6 – Developing Student Agency – Cowin Auditorium
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Ridhi Aggarwal and Rahul Aggarwal | Amalgamation of narrative discourse and maker-spaces as a tool for critical pedagogy |
| Lamiaa Nail | Girls Make: Breaking the Gender Barriers in STEM |
| Emily Dixon and Ryan Kiely | Makerspaces: A place for pom-poms or student autonomy? |
| Giliane Filismino Sales, Francisco Adones Pereira da Silva and Paola Salmona Ricci | Prototyping an Intelligent Clothesline Using the Gogo Board and Rain Sensors: Associating Problem Solving with Maker Culture |
3:25PM-4:25PM
Paper Presentations – Learning Theater, Milbank, Cowin
Poster Symposium 1 – Smith Learning Theater
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin Kafai, Ken Kahn, Ralf Romeike, Tilman Michaeli, Daniella DiPaola, Safinah Ali, Randi Williams, Cynthia Breazeal, Francisco Enrique Vicente Castro, Kayla Desportes, Gary Stager, Vishesh Kumar, Herminio Bodon, Marcelo Worsley, Victor R. Lee, Parth Sarin, Benjamin Xie, Jacob Wolf, Isabel Sieh, Deepak Varuvel Dennison, Raycelle Garcia and Cynthia Solomon | Constructionist Approaches to Learning Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning: Past, Present, and Future |
Special: Tech Frontiers 1: Innovative Construction Tools and Media – Cowin Auditorium
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Phebe Chew | Culinary Making: Democratized, Cultural Playgrounds of Possibility |
| Walter Bender and Devin Ulibarri | Musical Manipulatives |
| Stephen Howell and Lizbeth Goodman | You Can Dance If You Want To: Body Pose input to Block-Based Programming |
Special: Constructionist/Maker Futures 2: Constructing Constructionist Communities – Milbank Chapel
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Jake Byrne and Carina Girvan | Algorithms for Designing Learning: A Constructionist Perspective on Teacher Professional Development |
| E Paul Goldenberg, June Mark, Deborah Spencer, Kate Coleman, Kathryn Chiappinelli, Kristen Reed and Zak Kolar | Programming Microworlds for Elementary School Mathematics: What we’ve been learning |
| Carina Girvan, Chronis Kynigos and Alkistis Verevi | Leveraging the powerful ideas of constructionism to enhance emergent design thinking pedagogy |
4:25PM-4:40PM
Break
4:40PM-6:00PM
Poster Reception – Smith Learning Theater, Everett Lounge
Work-in-Progress Posters I
Location: Smith Learning Theater
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Yuhan Lin, David Weintrop, Audra Selkowitz and Jason McKenna | It’s as Easy as 123: Supporting Users via Multiple Programming Approaches on a Single Device |
| Devin Jean and Akos Ledeczi | Wireless Embedded Visual Programming for Novices |
| Veena Vasudevan | Writing as Making: Towards a Critical Constructionist Literacies Praxis with Pre-Service Educators |
| Paola Guimeráns and Iva Li | Co-Constructing Language Learning through Tinkering with Wearable Soft Controllers in Galician Creative Libraries for Elementary Schoolers |
| Sharon Hardof-Jaffe and Eran Gusacov | AI-Enhanced Philosophy of Education Studies |
| András Margitay-Becht | Constructionist booster: a quantitative bridge program for first year university students |
| Kyohei Sasaki and Kazutoyo Takata | Programmable Oven Toaster: A Powerful Tool for Learning Chemistry & Home Economics in a Constructionist Way |
| Michael Tempel, Michelle Hughes and Bryan Sanders | Microworlds, Powerful Ideas, and What do we do Monday? |
| Lana Issa and Ralf Romeike | Constructionism in the Light of Computational Creativity |
| Tyler Hansen and Colby Tofel-Grehl | Investigating Invasive Species by Constructing Data Visualizations with Teachable Machines and Coding |
| Hanya Elhashemy, Robert Parks, David Young-Jae Kim, Evan Patton and Harold Abelson | Empowering Learners with a Low-Barrier Mobile Data Science Toolkit |
| Robert Monahan, Jessica Vandenberg, Andy Smith, James Minogue, Kevin Oliver, Aleata Cheuoua, Cathy Ringstaff and Bradford Mott | Co-Constructing Expert Problem Solvers: The Power of Constructionism in the Digital Age |
| Jayne Everson, Megan Hofmann and Amy J. Ko | Sock-It-To-Ya: A Call for Collaboration on an Affordable Knitting Machine |
| Adelmo Eloy, Jacob Wolf, Nathan Rabinovitch and Paulo Blikstein | K-12 Computer Science Ideals in Context: Lessons Learned from Co-designing a Constructionist Computer Science Program in the Global South |
| Xichen Li and Paulo Blikstein | Write Your First Song: An Interactive Interface for Music Novices to Express Music Ideas |
| Tobias M. Schifferle | CYBATHLON @school scale up inclusion – towards a new low cost, high scale STEM module approach |
| James Fey, Raquel Robinson, Sarah Frost and Katherine Isbister | “Are you doing anything I can interrupt right now?” Using Social Wearables to Support Communication in Remote Work Environments |
| Anna Keune, Naomi Thompson and Jenna Koenen | Conductive Chemistry Learning: Critical technological explorations for early childhood |
| John Chen and Uri Wilensky | ChatLogo: A Large Language Model-Driven Hybrid Natural-Programming Language Interface for Agent-based Modeling and Programming |
| Yinmiao Li, Fangqing He, Yumih Chang, Qianyi Chen and Mingnan Du | Enchanting Woods: Engaging Children in Creative Expression through Interactive Storytelling and Embodied Interaction |
| Alexander Jones and Greg Nelson | A Constructionist Learning Environment for Accessible Agricultural Robotics in Rural Communities via Making and Remixing |
| Sawaros Thanapornsangsuth and Junichi Takada | Constructing Sustainability: Integrating Constructionist Learning in Education for Sustainable Development |
| Yume Menghe Xu and Brian Gravel | Political Activism in a Youth Community Garden |
| Cynthia Solomon and Artemis Papert | Turtle Geometry Today and Yesterday |
| Yipu Zheng and Paulo Blikstein | Supporting Knowledge Construction in Making via Collective Process-Oriented Documentation |
| Lucius Von Joo and Blake Danzig | Multivocal Play an Interactive Exhibit |
| Midhat Noor Kiyani | Create2Solve DIY STEAM Kits: Youth Participation in Making Activities to Solve Real-World Sustainability Challenges in Socio-Economically Vulnerable Communities |
| Xiaoyan Qin | Kaleidolight: An Interactive Educational Device for Exploring Additive Color Theory and Creating Visual Arts through the Integration of Light, Color, and Shapes |
| Zhanlan Wei and Paulo Blikstein | Spatial: An Embodied Learning Design To Support Geometry Learning Through Collaboration and Physical Movements |
| Yinmiao Li and John Chen | Creative Expression through Color and Sound: A NetLogo Model for the Sonification of Color and the Visualization of Sound |
| Ronni Hayden and Jose Hernandez | Stories and STEM: Designing for Relationship Building and Meaningful Forms of Expression in a Family Computing Workshop |
| Cecilé Sadler, Jaleesa Trapp and Paulina Haduong | Civic Engagement in the Scratch Online Community as a Case for Civic Imagination in Creative Computing |
| Benadette Spieler and Tobias M. Schifferle | Making at School: Experiences from the Design-based Research Project |
| João Paulo Mannrich, Eduarda Boing Pinheiro and Elizandro Maurício Brick | Cultural Making and Scientific Education: elements for an ethical-critical approach from the global south |
| Giliane Filismino Sales, Antonia Renata de Araújo Azevedo, Mariana Lederman Edelstein, Paola Salmona Ricci and Claudia Peria | Transforming Teaching Science Education: Case Studies on Implementing a Constructionist Curriculum for Middle School Students |
Work-in-Progress Posters II
Location: Everett Lounge
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Inara Bezerra Ferreira de Sousa, Andréia Maria De Lima Assunção and Mariana Lederman Edelstein | The Griot Dolls: Black Dolls to Think History Black Dolls to Think History |
| Mariana Lederman Edelstein and Sadia Ahmed | ElectricCity: Electrical Block Circuits for Elementary Learners |
| Jose Armando Valente, Eliton Moura and Paulo Blikstein | Making Floats for the Brazilian Carnaval Parade: the Emergence of the “Situated Maker Space” |
| Mariana Lederman Edelstein, Luca Vernalha and Brett Schechter | Fostering Literacy Development through Constructionist Pedagogy: A Case Study in Elementary Education |
| Changzhao Wang | Designing a Middle School Curriculum to Critically Explore Socioscientific Issues with Machine Learning |
| Yuhan Lin, David Weintrop, Audra Selkowitz and Jason McKenna | Transforming Teaching Science Education: Case Studies on Implementing a Constructionist Curriculum for Middle School Students |
| Evgeny Patarakin | Constructing various learning activities on the Semantic MediaWiki playground |
| Brendan Jacobs | Introducing Provisional Multimodal Research (PMR): Constructionist Principles at the Methodological Level |
| Rodrigo Gonzalez and Carla Degregorio | Discover BBC micro:bit board as part of a dynamic and experimental AI learning process |
| Takeshi Watanabe and Yuriko Sekimizu | Reconsidering a Picture Rewriting Rule-Based Programming Language for Preschool Children in Japan: A Comprehensive Study Using Viscuit |
Research Posters
Location: Everett Lounge
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Mariam Aljabaly and Hanna Aarnio | Teachers’ facilitation of maker-centered activities: A framework for video analysis |
| Mariana Lederman Edelstein, Marcelo Falciano, Blake Danzig and Nathan Holbert | Cobogó: A tool to empower play and make imagination visible |
| Yuval Segev and Yotam Hod | Scaffolding School-Based Maker Education |
| Colby Tofel-Grehl and Tyler Hansen | Leveraging app making as a constructionist tool for developing Indigenous Hawaiian youth’s rightful presence |
| Harald Burgsteiner | A novel generic app for mobile devices that utilizes Augmented Reality (AR) technology to create, share and deliver constructionist multimedia learning scenarios |
| Chronis Kynigos | Constructionism in building sustainable interdisciplinary research: the ‘Co.F.E.’ method |
Reception at Everett Lounge on the first floor of Zankel Hall.
Monday, October 9
8:00AM-8:30AM
Registration – Milbank Chapel / Everett Lounge (!)
Monday registration is located at the main Zankel Hall entrance to Teachers College, Columbia University (525 W 120th St., New York, NY 10027)
Coffee and light refreshments at Everett Lounge on the first floor of Zankel Hall
8:30AM-10:20AM
Barcamp – Smith Learning Theater / Workshops – Various Classrooms
| Title | Author | Location |
|---|---|---|
| The ABCDs of Geometry: Analog, Body-scale, Constructionist, and Dance-based | Leah F Rosenbaum, Cecilia Fontanesi, Paul Reimer | Horace Mann 152 |
| Making with Your Phone: Teaching the Internet of Things to Novices | Devin Jean, Akos Ledeczi | Horace Mann 142 |
| The personal information space as a constructionist learning artifact | Sharon Hardof; Ruthi Aladjem | Horace Mann 146 |
| Lemon Robotics Kit: Open-Sourced Bio-inspired Educational Robot Series to Enhance Quick Prototyping Skills of K-12 Students | Sedat Yalcin, Dilara Vardar, Iremsu Bas, Melis Alsan, Ahmet Burhan Bas, Ceren Dolu, Ismail Servan Sevik | Horace Mann 234 |
| MoDa: Exploring Computational Modeling from a Constructionist Perspective | Tamar Fuhrmann, Brendan Henrique, Aditi Wagh, Adelmo Eloy | Thompson Hall 322 |
| Promoting Algorithmic Justice: Creating and Auditing Machine Learning-Powered Applications with Youth | Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin Kafai | Horace Mann 148 |
| The science of lei making: Integrating and explicating the science of Hawaiian cultural crafting. | Janice English, Jade Bowman and Colby Tofel-Grehl | Horace Mann 431 |
| How and Why to Teach Logo Programming to Children | Gary Stager | Horace Mann 144 |
| Biomaking Board Games: A Workshop about BioMaterials for Making and Learning | Alan Barrera, Maria Perez-Piza and Justice Walker | Horace Mann 424 |
10:30AM-11:30AM
Paper Presentations – Milbank, Learning Theater
Special: Constructionist/Maker Futures 3 – Future Constructionist Environments – Milbank Chapel
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Alberto Montresor and Francesca Fiore | Embracing the Challenge: A Committed Constructionist’s Reflections on Strategies for Fostering an Engaging Learning Community |
| Ann Berger Valente and Leo Burd | Brazilian Creative Learning Network: a social movement approach to constructionist educational reform |
| Uwe Lorenz and Ralf Romeike | Iterative Data-driven Optimizing Behavior (IDOB): A Structural Model for Enhancing Machine Learning Education and Understanding Software 2.0 Production |
Poster Symposium 2 – Smith Learning Theater
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Ricarose Roque, Ronni Hayden, Celeste Moreno, Janet Ruppert, Stephanie Hladik, Jose Hernandez, Ryoko Matsumoto, Sebastian Martin, Steph Muscat, Michael Wong, Mike Petrich, Karen Wilkinson, Rupal Jain, Natalie Rusk, Carolina Rodeghiero, and Caitlin Martin | Facilitating Computational Tinkering: Exploratory and Expansive Collaborative Design Work with Informal Learning Educators |
11:40AM-12:40PM
Paper Presentations – Milbank, Learning Theater
Short Paper 1 – Ecological Making – Milbank Chapel
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Rita Freudenberg | (De-) Constructing your digital footprint |
| Andréa Felix, Mariana Lederman Edelstein, Camila Campello and Thatiany Lima | Visible Learnings: Shared Digital Tools for a Kindergarten Investigation |
| M Cecilia C Baranauskas, Emanuel Felipe Duarte and Jose Armando Valente | Making a Path through Walking: Socienactive Perspective Contributions to Constructionism Futures |
| Ana Paula Pereira and João Vilhete Viegas D’Abreu | Considerations about Maker Education in the Curriculum of Teaching Natural Sciences in Brazil |
Short Paper 2 – Constructionism and Creativity – Smith Learning Theater
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Alex Kourchev, Jonan P. Donaldson and Jay Woodward | Constructing Creativity: Exploring Conceptualizations and Their Implications for Constructionist Learning Environments |
| Robin Samuelsson | Balancing hands-on scaffolding and play-based activities for young children’s programming: Affordances for learning from instruction and guided play |
| Ralf Romeike, Petra Kastl and Peter Brichzin | Agile methods as a methodology for implementing Constructionist Learning in Computer Science Education and beyond |
12:40PM-2:30PM
Lunch on your own
2:30PM-3:30PM
Panels – Cowin, Milbank
| Cowin Auditorium | Centralizing Artistic Practices in Constructionist Learning with Clarisa James, Lauren Vogelstein, Mia Shaw, and Erin Riley |
| Milbank Chapel | Computing and Constructionism: Where have we been and where are we going? with David Weintrop, Ken Kahn, Yumiko Murai, and Ricarose Roque |
3:30PM-3:45PM
Break
3:45PM-4:45PM
Paper Presentations – Milbank, Learning Theater
Full Paper 4: Making in Challenging Contexts – Milbank
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Yipu Zheng and Paulo Blikstein | Can a Home be a Makerspace? Exploring Learners’ Diverse Needs and Experiences in Remote Making |
| Martina Francesca Ferracane, Fiammetta Menchetti, Veronica Ballerini and Silvia Noirjean | Creative STEM activities offered by FabLabs: how do they impact creativity and grit of high school students? |
| Sandra Becker, Michele Jacobsen and Douglas B. Clark | Exploring Teacher Assumptions About Making Using MakerPCK |
Special: Tech Frontiers 2: Constructing Constructionist Communities – Smith Learning Theater
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Eliton Moura, Jose Armando Valente and Paulo Blikstein | The Emergence of the Samba School as a Learning Society |
| Leah Rosenbaum, Paul Reimer, Alik Palatnik and Dor Abrahamson | “We Actually Cared because We Needed to Build It:” Broadening the Educational Spaces of Constructionist Design |
| Goki Miyakita and Yu Homma | Empowering Youth for Climate Action: Creative Learning in a University Museum Workshop Series |
4:55PM-5:55PM
Paper Presentations – Milbank(!), Learning Theater
Short Paper 3: Constructionist Pedagogy – Milbank Chapel (moved from Cowin Auditorium)
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Charles Pimentel, Jarret Dunbar and Lisa Little | Makers and Designers: the development of intellectual autonomy through a constructionist approach at the American School of Rio de Janeiro |
| Robin Samuelsson | A pedagogy of tinkering: The pedagogical values of productive failure in childhood programming education |
| Colby Tofel-Grehl and David Feldon | Measuring the viability of maker technology adoption within classrooms: Evaluating teacher instructional and cognitive load through constructionism and making. |
| Mariana Lederman Edelstein, Andréia Maria de Lima Assunção and Daniela Andrade Cordeiro | Pedagogy Scientists: Enhancing the visibility of research conducted by classroom educators |
Poster Symposium 3 – Smith Learning Theater
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin Kafai, Karen Brennan, Paulina Haduong, Varsha Venkatasubramanian, Tilman Michaeli, Heike Hennig, David Weintrop, Jennifer Tsan, Diana Franklin, Yerika Jimenez, Colin Hennessy Elliott, Michael Schneider, Jeffrey B. Bush, Deborah Fields, Mimi Recker, Jessie Nixon, Francisco Enrique Vicente Castro, Kayla Desportes, Casey Smith, Mike Tissenbaum, Ashita Bawankule, David Hopping, Nathan Holbert, Paulo Blikstein, Isabel Correa, Blake Danzig, David Zikovitz and Matthew Berland | Productive Designs for Successful Failure: Constructionist Perspectives on Supporting Personally Meaningful and Culturally Empowered Learning and Teaching |
Tuesday, October 10
8:30AM-9:30AM
Coffee at Everett Lounge
9:30AM-10:30AM
Keynote: José Valente – Cowin Auditorium
Keynote: Ann Valente – Cowin Auditorium
“The Intersection of Freire and Constructionism in Brazil”
10:40AM-11:40AM
Panels – Cowin, Milbank
| Cowin Auditorium | Making around the world: Experiences & lessons learned with Paulo Blikstein, Tamar Fuhrmann, Sawaros (Sam) Thanapornsangsuth, Martina Ferracane, Florencia Talmon, Xiaoling Zhang, and Yuval Segev |
| Milbank Chapel | Making and Learning with and about AI and ML with Safinah Ali, Nettrice Gaskins, Francisco Castro, and Brian Smith |
11:40AM-1:00PM
Lunch on your own
1:00PM-2:00PM
Paper Presentations – Cowin, Milbank
Short Paper 4 – Making and Play – Cowin Auditorium
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Celeste Moreno and Paul Reimer | DIY Board Games with Craft and Code |
| Amy Traylor, Leah Buechley, Ruby Ta and Alyssa Johnson | PaperCut: A Craft-Centered Approach to Digital Fabrication Using Cut Paper as a Design Medium |
| Rich Cooper, Mahjabin Chowdury, Jonan Phillip Donaldson and Madeleine Barth | Exploring Role-Play Game-Based Learning in the Literature Classroom |
Full Paper 5 – Milbank Chapel
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| John Chen, Michael Horn and Uri Wilensky | Interactive Constructionist Scaffolds for Agent-based Modeling and Programming in NetLogo |
| Rafael Fernandes and Jacqueline Staub | Unleashing the Power of Turtle Graphics for Graph Algorithm Visualization |
| Herminio Bodon, Vishesh Kumar and Marcelo Worsley | Constructing Sports Technologies and Understandings: Constructionist Pathways to Enrich Athletic Experiences |
2:10PM-3:10PM
Paper Presentations – Cowin, Milbank
Full Paper 6 – Collaboration – Cowin Auditorium
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Annemiek Veldhuis, Aakash Johry, Tilde Bekker, Maaike Jetten, Emer Beamer Cronin, Madalina Bouros, Ioanna Garefi and Georgia Safouri | DESIGN FUTURES: Collaboration and Creativity Self-Efficacy during Design-Based Learning and Maker Education in elementary education |
| Casey Smith and Mike Tissenbaum | The REACH System: Boundary Spanning’s Support of Distributed Collaborative Making |
| Alekh V and Chandan Dasgupta | Creative Movements in Maker-Material Collaborations |
Full Paper 7 – Objects-to-think-with – Milbank Chapel
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Yumiko Murai and Cassia Fernandez | Learning through “playing with data”: Teachers’ perspectives on a constructionist approach to data literacy education |
| Leah Rosenbaum, Deborah Fields, Luis Morales-Navarro and Paulo Blikstein | The Transformational Power of Everyday Representations as Objects-to-Think-With in a Thai Farmer’s Life |
| Justice Walker, Alan Barrera, Maria Perez-Piza, Alex Acquah, Daniel Grushkin and Veena Vijayakumar | Biodesign: A Frame for BioMaking to Learn |
3:10PM-3:25PM
Break
3:25PM-4:25PM
Paper Presentations – Full Paper 8 – Constructionist Pedagogy – Cowin Auditorium (!)
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Kalliopi Evangelia Stavroulia, Christos Kyrlitsias, Lefteris Ioannou, Yiannis Georgiou, Despina Grigoriou Michael and Andreas Lanitis | Virtual Reality and the Art of Empathetic Teaching: Enhancing Teacher Education Through Perspective-Taking |
| Chris Shelton | Supporting Lower Attaining Pupils in Early Computing Education |
| Jacob Wolf, Jenny Han, Chris Proctor, Emma Brown and Paulo Blikstein | Constructing Computational Identities: Exploring Constructionism and Identity in an Introductory High School Computer Science Course |
4:35PM-5:35PM
Keynote: Dennis Komm – Cowin Auditorium
“A Spiral Curriculum of Constructionist Ideas”
Wednesday, October 11
9:30AM-10:45AM
Opening: Building Constructionist Futures / Keynote: Justice Walker – Smith Learning Theater
10:45AM-11:15AM
Constructionist Futures – Smith Learning Theater
Break out group discussions
11:15AM-12:15PM
The Future of Constructionism Panel – Smith Learning Theater
| Smith Learning Theater | The Future of Constructionism with Nathan Holbert, Paulo Blikstein, Kayla DesPortes, Carina Girvan, and Tobias M. Schifferle |