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Promoting greater interest in STEM through literacy and the arts.Ĭheck out her website at Here you can find information regarding her research (including publications), teaching, and advising.Building capacity for investigating and affecting change and innovation in formal and informal education settings in the use of emerging digital media and interactive tools.
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Click on the orange Play button to get started. While we’d love for you to visit us in person, this virtual tour will give you a peek into our physical space. In a makerspace, emphasis is on problem-solving, collaborating with others, failing, developing grit and resiliency, and finally, creating something to solve a real-world problem using both digital and physical materials. Build capacity for investigating and affecting change and innovation in formal and informal education settings in the use of emerging digital media and interactive tools.Ī makerspace is a collaborative, learner-centered and constructionist-pedagogy-focused learning environment where individuals come together to tinker, build and create.Observe and evaluate the impact of “maker cultures” that facilitate the discovery, design, and development (3Ds) of digital “products” for students of all ages, their teachers, and the community and.Develop and evaluate constructionist “production pedagogies” that work to build students’ ‘performative’ competencies in digital literacies, and investigate whether and how they promote civic engagement, service learning, and social justice particularly among marginalized students.Janette Hughes, Canada Research Chair in Technology and Pedagogy, and her research team: (Been here before and want to see what’s new? Click here!)