Since January 2015
Make-to-Learn is an effort that leverages DIY culture, digital practices, and educational research to advocate for placing making, creating, and designing at the core of educational practice.
Dr. Kylie Peppler
Principal Investigator
Make-to-Learn is an effort that leverages DIY culture, digital practices, and educational research to advocate for placing making, creating, and designing at the core of educational practice. Recognizing and articulating the powerful learning potential of making and DIY culture is critical in broadening the reach of the Maker movement and in making programs centered on innovation, creativity, and inquiry more accessible and appealing to educators and youth in under-resourced settings. The broader vision of Make-to-Learn is an educational ecosystem that incorporates these practices as a means to engage and inspire all young people towards lifelong collaborative learning, experimentation, and invention. Our lab is uncovering how computational textiles are potentially transformative both in terms of improving learning outcomes as well as broadening participation in STEM fields today. Make-to-Learn is a thematic initiative of the Digital Media and Learning Hub (http://dmlcentral.net) at the University of California, Irvine and is supported by the MacArthur Foundation (http://www.macfound.org).