Making Success: Researching a School District's Integration of the Maker Movement Into Its Middle and High School

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Author(s): Keith W. Trahan (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Renata de Almeida Ramos (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Jeffrey Zollars (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Wei Tang (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Stephanie Maietta Romero (University of Pittsburgh, USA)and Cynthia A. Tananis (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 34
Source title: Challenges and Opportunities for Transforming From STEM to STEAM Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kelli Thomas (University of Kansas, USA)and Douglas Huffman (University of Kansas, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2517-3.ch006

Keywords: Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Education / Information Science Reference / STEM Education

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Increasingly, the maker movement has been pointed to as a means of bringing more innovation and creativity into education. As an educational program, making has pressed educators to question entrenched beliefs and assumptions about the structure of activities, lessons, and classes, pushing them to embrace a more student and experience driven learning environment. “Making Success” was a two-year research project to investigate and describe the integration of making into one school district's middle and high school. The starting point of the research was to learn and describe the critical characteristics and capacities that allowed TRSD to integrate making so deeply into its secondary schools. A key lesson of the project was that many interconnected ideas and people played important roles in the initiative to bring about success.

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