Purpose: The purpose of this study is to review the use of makerspaces for educational
purposes by building a map that describes recent research in the field under investigation …

Society's future depends on informed perspectives of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI related
skills, a prognosis that greatly impacts K-12 education. To best prepare students to be AI …

The aim of this study was (1) to describe challenges prospective teachers perceive during
project work in a pedagogical makerspace and coping strategies they develop to deal with …

Although a few researchers have recently focused on the value of making, tinkering, coding,
and play in learning, a synthesis of this work is currently missing, creating an unclear path …

The emergence of the maker movement has prompted educational researchers to consider
the affordances of maker-centered learning activities in formal K-12 environments. These …

This paper reports on nine elementary, middle, and high school in-service teachers who
participated in a series of workshops aimed at exploring the wonder, joy, and beauty of …

Background: Many students have incomplete or incorrect perceptions of science and
scientists. These simplified images, mediated by media or influential agents of socialisation …

This paper reports on findings from a group of ten teachers who were enrolled in a semester-
long, graduate-level educational technology course that used design-based learning to …

Making and makerspaces are becoming increasingly popular in K-12 schools. However,
professional development on making for practicing teachers is under researched. We …

In this paper, we investigate how augmented reality (AR) can help students “see the unseen”
when learning to operate and program robots. We describe our prototype AR system for …