Learning Dimensions of Making and Tinkering: A professional development tool for educators
Students gain valuable experiences while making and tinkering. Educators can use this framework to notice, support, document, and design assessments for student learning—and to reflect on how your tinkering environment, activities, and facilitation may have supported or impeded such outcomes.
Learning Dimensions of Making and Tinkering one-pager This document is a quick reference of all five learning dimensions in one page. For each dimension we have identified some specific indicators to help practitioners and researchers recognize and interpret learners’ behaviors.
The Learning Dimensions have been translated in several languages! Click below to download:
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Are you interested in translating the Learning Dimensions into a language we don’t have yet? Drop us a line at tinkering@exploratorium.edu!
Making Deeper Learners – A Tinkering Learning Dimensions Framework 2.0 An article describing the development and use of the Learning Dimensions Framework. Also included are project vignettes that educators and practitioners can use to identify the dimensions of learning in action.
This project was funded by generous support from Overdeck Family Foundation and the National Science Foundation.