Agency by Design: Empowering Young People to Shape their Worlds
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.”
What inspired you to begin investigating your topic or inspired you to make your project?:
Our backgrounds providing rich teaching and learning experiences for young people, and our interests in supporting student agency drive us to do our work.
World Maker Faire 2017
Saturday and Sunday: September 23-24
LOCATION: Zone 3 - MAKE: EducationSaturday, September 23
Zone 3 - MAKE: Education
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
MAKERS
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.
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.
