BioMakerlab Studios
The bioMAKERlab studios is wetlab starter kit for design activities that engage high school students in synthetic biology by building genetic circuits that let microorganisms change color, smell, and shape.
Contributors
Orkan Telhan, Karen Hogan, Justice Walker, Deb Lui, Sheri Hanna, Mia Shaw
Related Research
Walker, J. T., & Kafai, Y. B. (2021). The biodesign studio: Constructions and reflections of high school youth on making with living media. British Journal of Educational Technology, 00, 1-14.
Kafai, Y. B. & Walker, J. T. (2020). Twenty Things to Make with Biology. In B. Tangney, J. Bryne, and C. Girvan (Eds.), Proceedings of Constructionism 2020 (pp. 551-559). Dublin, Ireland. ISBN 978-1-911566-09-0. Link to PDF
Kafai, Y. B. Walker, J. T. (2020, May 5). Bringing 21st-century science into schools. Phi Delta Kappan, Online first. Link to https://kappanonline.org/21st-century-science-schools-k12-education-biotechnology-kafai-walker/
Lui, D., Kafai, Y. B., Walker, W., Hanna, S., Hogan, K., & Telhan, O. (2019). A revaluation of how we think about making: Examining assembly practices and artifact imagination in biomaking. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Creativity and Fabrication in Education (FabLearn ’19). New York, NY: ACM. Link to PDF
Shaw, M., Walker, J., & Kafai, Y. (2019). Arguing about Synthetic Biology in 140 Characters or Less: Affordances of Microblogging for High School Students Discussions of Socioscientific Issues. In Lund, K., Niccolai, G. P., Lavoué, E., Hmelo-Silver, C., Gweon, G., & Baker, M. (Eds.), A Wide Lens: Combining Embodied, Enactive, Extended, and Embedded Learning in Collaborative Settings, 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2019, Volume 1 (pp. 526-533). Lyon, France: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Anderson, E., Lui, D. A., & Kafai. Y, B. (2018). Is making all about tinkering? A Case Study of High School Students’ Activities in Biomaker Workshops. In J. H. Khalir (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2018 Connected Learning Summit (pp. 158-167). Pittsburgh, PA: ETC Press. Link to PDF
Kafai, Y., Horn, M., Danish, J., Humburg, M., Tu, X., Davi, B., Gerogen, C., Enyedy, N., Bumbacher, E., Blikstein, P., Washington, P., Riedel-Krause, I., Clegg, T., Byrne, V., Norooz, L., Kang, S., Froehlich, J., Walker, J., Lui, D., Anderson, E. (2018). Affordances of digital, textile, and living media or design and learning biology in K-12 education. In J. Kay and R. Luckin (Eds.), Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age: Making the Learning Sciences Count, 13th International Conference of the Learning, International Society of the Learning Sciences, 1275-1282. Link to PDF
Walker, J., Shaw, M., Kafai, Y. B., & Lui, D. (2018). Biohacking food: A case study of science inquiry and design reflections about a synthetic biology high school workshop. In J. Kay and R. Luckin (Eds.), Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age: Making the Learning Sciences Count, 13th International Conference of the Learning, International Society of the Learning Sciences, 1559-1560. Link to PDF
Kafai, Y. B., Telhan, O., Hogan, K., Lui, D., Anderson, E., Walker, J., & Hanna, S. (2017) Growing Designs with biomakerlab in High School Classrooms. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '17) (pp. 503-508). New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3078072.3084316. Link to PDF