This lesson plan is based on a workshop titled “Taking Apart Racism: Using Maker-Centered Practices to Break Down Systems of Oppression,” led by Jaime Chao Mignano and Mark Perkins at the National Association of Independent Schools People of Color Conference (PoCC). To learn more, read the field notes post, Taking Apart to Build Stories of Change.
Participants at the Arts Education Partnership National Forum consider the role of the arts in maker-centered learning experiences.
这个思维习惯鼓励学生慢下来，仔细地观察一个系统。通过这样帮助学生更好地认知具体系统里无论是直接相关还是不直接相关的人物。
这个思维习惯通过让学生慢下来，小心仔细地观察物件和系统，鼓励学生超越一个物件/系统明显的特征看到更多。
Students from King Middle School in Portland, Maine, explain the importance of looking closely in a maker-centered classroom.
Video by Alex Coppola
The Inquiry Cycle is a tool to support teacher and student learning—and to make that learning visible—all the while exploring the capacities associated with the Agency by Design framework for maker-centered learning.
This practice promotes noticing, play, and exploration. When learners have time to tinker with materials they can gain an understanding of the affordances, possibilities, and constraints inherent in a variety of making materials.
Mechanical dissections are a practice that allows learners to discover the often hidden design of objects.
This practice first encourages learners to observe the world around them and look for design, “in the wild,” taking a broad inventory of the designs they notice. Then it asks them to focus in on one object or system to consider the designer’s perspective or to propose redesign ideas.