The way that students learn, use, and create technology has evolved dramatically in the past 10 years. Yet, the educational spaces we provide in libraries, schools, colleges, and universities for creative, project based learning have seen little to no innovation in decades. The introduction of Maker technologies like Arduinos, 3d printers, and laser cutters, enable students to create sophisticated looking artifacts, but they are often disconnected from deeper learning processes. The spaces and platforms need to evolve in ways that better support the children's creative inquiry and constructive learning. Drawing on arts-based practices of documentation and critique, this work will pioneer an integration of technology, space, and education to better connect students with their creative processes to strengthen and deepen learning. Ultimately, this exploratory project will not only develop an integrated set of situated documentation tools, but also will help us develop hypotheses for how documentation as a mediating process productively supports learning.
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