Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

5.31.07 | In June 2006, MacArthur awarded the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology a grant to explore the future of libraries and public schools. A year later the Institute of Design has established a new website and intriguing model of a new space in libraries where young people can tinker at their leisure. In hands-on activities kids have traditionally tinkered with bicycles, recipes, science experiments, etc. In the digital space what might tinkering look like and what kinds of problem-solving might it require?  Faculty at the Institute of Design have dubbed this combined activity of tinkering and problem-solving “thinkering” and believe the library may be just the right location for a “thinkering space.” To learn more about ThinkingSpaces, read Dale Fahnstrom’s recent post.