Review Young people growing up today will surely be called upon to address thorny problems that cut across global, interconnected systems: the environment, the economy, the global infrastructure. Few skills will be more important than the capacity to see, understand, and innovate systems. The Interconnections collection, created through a collaboration among scholars, curriculum developers, and teachers across the National Writing Project, provides approaches to teaching systems thinking through activities that also build literacy and support Common Core Standards and career-readiness. This 'both-and' approach is a demonstration of what forward-looking curriculum must be in a digital age.―Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Executive Director, National Writing Project, University of California, BerkeleyThe books in this collection offer wonderful activities for engaging young people in new ways of making, helping them learn to express themselves creatively with new technologies. But even more important, they engage young people in new ways of seeing, helping them develop new perspectives for understanding the world―and understanding themselves.―Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, and Director, Lifelong Kindergarten group, MIT Media Lab Read more About the Author Kylie Peppler is Assistant Professor in the Learning Sciences Program and Director of the Creativity Labs at Indiana University Bloomington. Read more
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Example projects with rich disciplinary connections!
The e-puppet activity in this book is perfect for youth from middle to high school! When facilitating this activity with students and they absolutely adored their products! It was evident how the students connected their prior knowledge about electricity and circuits with the transparency of tracing and retracing their own personal circuit with needles and conductive threads!
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