Indigenous Making and Sharing: Claywork in an Indigenous STEAM Program

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In this article we expand on ideas of making and maker spaces to develop Indigenous making and sharing. We draw from an ArtScience participatory design project that involved Indigenous youth, families, community artists, and scientists in a summer Indigenous STEAM program designed to cultivate social and ecologically just nature-culture relations grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and making. In this article we focus specifically on clay making and the ways in which onto-epistemic heterogeneity can be engaged to create transformative maker spaces. We present findings from an
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An NSF Summary of the EAGER Maker Summit

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STELAR hosted NSF Program Officer Robert Russell and Einstein Fellow Brenda Carpenter in the final webinar on the 2018 EAGER Maker Summit. The presentation provided an overview of NSF's commitment to making, reviewed key highlights from the December meeting, and provided a recap of the previous four

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STELAR Maker Webinar - Partnerships & Broadening Participation

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In this webinar, learn about individual and group strategies that can help to support your work - current and future. Presenters will highlight both Making Partnerships and Broadening Participation. Essential for most projects, strong partnerships are key to Making because of the scope of outcomes

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STELAR Webinar: Maker - Research & Evaluation

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Webinar 3 - Research & Evaluation During this webinar we will examine the challenges in designing assessments and measuring cognitive and non-cognitive learning outcomes in a maker-based project. Presenters: Jennifer Albert, Citadel Military College of South Carolina Cynthia Tananis, University of

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STELAR Webinar: Maker - Process and Pedagogy

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This webinar will discuss how making looks like across different settings such as higher education, informal learning environments, and schools with high and low tech. The focus of the discussion will be pedagogical practices, practical challenges, and opportunities to broaden and sustain the

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Maker Webinar - Workforce Development

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Make the Force be With You: Workforce Development through MakingParticipants learned how their research in making is related to workforce development as a broader impact or as a direct intervention. This webinar examined how skills developed in making relate to imminent workforce needs. Presenters

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