An Exploration of Female Engagement and Collaboration: The Bricks and Bits Maker Project

Aleman, Ezequiel; Davis, Pryce

Abstract

This poster explores how learners engage in "maker" activities when collaborating and how participation can become more inclusive when framing activities in order to connect learners with children in their own community. We describe the first iteration of the Bricks and Bits project where undergraduate engineering students were challenged to redesign the toys of children. Bricks and Bits specifically reimagines making as a service learning project in order to increase the inclusion of female participants.

Citation

Aleman, E., & Davis, P. (2019). An Exploration of Female Engagement and Collaboration: The Bricks and Bits Maker Project. In K. Lund, G. P. Niccolai, E. Lavoué, C. Hmelo-Silver, G. Gweon, & M. Baker (Eds.), A Wide Lens: Combining Embodied, Enactive, Extended, and Embedded Learning in Collaborative Settings: 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference Proceedings: Volume 2 (905-906)

• Conference Name: 13th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
• Conference Location: Lyon, France
• Start Date: Jun 17, 2019
• End Date: Jun 19, 2019
• Acceptance Date: Jan 30, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jun 17, 2019
• Publication Date: Jun 17, 2019
• Deposit Date: May 19, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 8, 2022
• Pages: 905-906
• Book Title: A Wide Lens: Combining Embodied, Enactive, Extended, and Embedded Learning in Collaborative Settings: 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference Proceedings: Volume 2
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/8136083
• Publisher URL: https://www.isls.org/cscl/2019/www.cscl2019.com/upload/pdf/CSCL-2019-Volume-2.pdf