Interconnections: Teaching Systems Thinking through Digital Design
Keywords: Systems Thinking,Making, Computer Science Education,Digital Learning Pedagogy
The Interconnections book series shares over 100 hours of ‘digital making’ curricular units spanning four areas of digital design; digital storytelling through computation, game design, e-textiles and physical computing. The series offers concrete lesson plans that integrate digital making with learning systems thinking, a powerful way of understanding the world as a series of interconnected systems characterized by dynamics like feedback loops, emergence, complexity and non-linear dynamics.
The approaches were developed through a collaboration between the Creativity Labs at Indiana University, the Institute of Play, the Digital Youth Network at Depaul University and the National Writing Project.
Collaborators:
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Kylie Peppler - UC, Irvine
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Melissa Gresalfi - Vanderbilt University
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Katie Salen Tekinbaş - UC, Irvine
Funder:
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The MacArthur Foundation
Books:
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Gaming the System. Designing with Gamestar Mechanic. Katie Salen Tekinbaş, Melissa Gresalfi, Kylie Peppler and Rafi Santo. MIT Press; Cambridge, 2014.
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Short Circuits. Crafting e-Puppets with DIY Electronics. Kylie Peppler, Melissa Gresalfi, Katie Salen Tekinbaş and Rafi Santo. MIT Press; Cambridge, 2014.
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Soft Circuits. Crafting e-Fashion with DIY Electronics. Kylie Peppler, Melissa Gresalfi, Katie Salen Tekinbaş and Rafi Santo. MIT Press; Cambridge, 2014.
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Script Changers. Digital Storytelling with Scratch. Kylie Peppler, Rafi Santo, Melissa Gresalfi and Katie Salen Tekinbaş. MIT Press; Cambridge, 2014.