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Agency by Design: Empowering Young People to Shape their Worlds

World Maker Faire 2017

September 23rd-24th

Presentation Education

In this session, researchers and practitioners from Project Zero’s Agency by Design initiative will present a framework for teaching and learning aimed at promoting student agency in the maker-centered classroom, a concept that they refer to as “maker empowerment.”

Schedule

Sat 23 Sat 23 September 2017
MAKE: Education
12:30 pm
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Edward Clapp

Edward P. Clapp is a principal investigator at Project Zero where he is a co-director of the Agency by Design, an investigation of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker-centered learning, and the Creating Communities of Innovation initiative, a research study geared towards supporting educators as inquiry-driven innovators.

http://www.pz.harvard.edu/who-we-are/people/edward-clapp
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Lisa Yokana

An educator for over fifteen years, Lisa Yokana is the STEAM coordinator at Scarsdale High School. She has designed and will teach a STEAM course sequence for Scarsdale’s Design Lab, which will open in 2018. She works with teachers across the disciplines to integrate Design Thinking and Making into their curriculum.

http://innovated2x.blogspot.com

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