Schedule

The conference schedule

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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

When Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)	What	Who	Where
09:30-10:00	Conference start / social time	Conference participants	Virtual campus
10:00-10:30	Welcome by the conference hosts	Dorit Assaf, Yungjin Oh St.Gallen University of Teacher education	Zoom link
10:30-10:45	Welcome by the conference steering committee	Michail Giannakos, professor at the Department of Computer Science of Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)	Zoom link
11:00-12:00	Paper session I “Variety of learning opportunities” Chair: Janet C Read	Paper 1: Designing Effective Playful Experiences for Sustainability Awareness in Schools and Makerspaces Paper 2: Entrepreneurship Education Meets FabLab: Lessons Learned With Teenagers Paper 3: VotestratesML: A High School Learning Tool for Exploring Machine Learningand its Societal Implications	Zoom link
12:00-13:00	Lunch break / social time	Conference participants	Virtual campus
13:00-14:30 Workshop 1 12:00-13:30 Workshop 2 13:00-15:00 Workshop 3	Workshops	Workshop 1: Incorporating Maker-Centered Learning in Formal Education (90 min) Workshop 2: Creative, Engaging, and Playful “Making”-Activities with Smartphones and Embroidery Machines (90 min) Workshop 3: Making the World Cleaner: Data Computation and Communication in a Design Landscape (120 min)	Zoom link Workshop 1 Zoom link Workshop 2 Zoom link Workshop 3
14:30-15:30	Coffee break / social time	Conference participants	Virtual campus
15:30-16:30	Keynote “Re-Making our Worlds: Transforming STEM Learning Spaces”	Speaker: Brian Gravel, Ph.D. Professor of STEM Education at Tufts University	Zoom link
16:30-17:30	Social event Improv show live from the UK	The Maydays	Zoom link

Thursday, June 3, 2021

When Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)	What	Who	Where
08:30-09:00	Conference start / social time	Conference participants	Virtual campus
09:00-09:15	Welcome by the conference hosts	Dorit Assaf, Yunjin Oh St.Gallen University of Teacher education	Zoom link
09:15-10:15	Paper session II “Maker education and pedagogues” Chair: Bernadette Spieler	Paper 4: The Connected Qualities of Design Thinking and Maker Education practices in Early Education: A narrative review Paper 5: Scaling Digital Design Literacy in K-9 Through the Fellowship Program Paper 6: Becoming a Maker Pedagogue: Exploring Practices of Making and Developing a Maker Mindset for Preschools	Zoom link
10:15-11:00	The Maydays featured workshop on creativity, ideation, and communication (prior workshop registration required!) or social time	The Maydays (workshop) or conference participants (social time)	Zoom link Maydays Workshop1 Zoom link Maydays Workshop2 or virtual campus (social time)
11:00-12:00	Demo and poster (work-in-progress-papers) session I	Short poster and demo pitches Poster 2: A Maker Approach For The Future Of Learning Poster 5: Teaching and learning educational robotics: an open source robot and its e-learning platform Poster 6: Make4Change: Empowering Unemployed Youth through Digital Fabrication Poster 7: Sheep With Five Feet. Struggling to teach, make, help, observe, and learn simultaneously in maker education Demo 1: Demonstration of Roteco: an informative, collaborative platform with a unique community ecosystem Demo 3: Enabling agile rapid product development in K12 classrooms by enhancing an educational exoskeleton. Demo 5: The Magic Mode of Everyday Objects: Bridging the Digital and Physical Environments of Play with Monnom	Zoom link for pitch session then virtual campus
12:00-13:00	Lunch break	Conference participants	Virtual campus
13:00-14:00	Demo and poster (work-in-progress-papers) session II	Short poster and demo pitches Poster 1: Towards Better Understanding Maker Ecosystems Poster 3: Social Necklace Project: A student-made gadget to help people during the COVID-19 pandemic Poster 4: Opportunities and Scaffolds for Critical Reflection on Ethical Issues in an Online After School Biowearable Workshop for Youth Poster 8: Three Approaches for Shaping Safety Culture in Digital Fabrication: A Research Roadmap Poster 9: The Fab Lab Classroom: Scaffolding STEM Concepts by Adopting and Adapting Design Thinking Demo 2: «iMake-IT»: Invent, Code, and Shape Your World! Demo 4: Zine Machines – A Tinkering Kit Involving Math and Making	Zoom link for pitch session then virtual campus
14:00-14:15	Coffee break / social time	Conference participants	Virtual campus
14:15-15:15	Keynote panel discussion “Opportunities for science literacies for children” Chair: Michail Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway	Panel members Vanessa Camillieri University of Malta (UM) Elias Stouraitis PALLADIO, Greece Pavlos Koulouris, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece	Zoom link
15:15-15:45	Coffee break / social time	Conference participants	Virtual campus
15:45-17:00	Paper session III “Challenges and emotions in learning experiences” Chair: Netta Iivari	Paper 7: Faces Don’t Lie: Analysis of Children’s Facial expressions during Collaborative Coding Paper 8: Frustration as an opportunity for learning: Review of literature Paper 9: Facilitating Online Distributed Critical Making: Lessons Learned	Zoom link
17:00-17:30	Conference closing	Conference hosts and steering committee	Zoom link