ThinkeringSpaces: A New Idea for Libraries
Filed at 7:42 pm on May 31, 2007 in Civic Engagement, Credibility, Games, Identity, Digital Divide • Leave a comment
MacArthur Awards Institute of Design at IIT Grant to Rethink Libraries
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.
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