Explore and create: Deep-dive Creation lab 
Preregistration Required
Participants will be able to:
- Create a working simple circuit
- Create a working parallel circuit
- Create a working switched circuit
- Support student-centered troubleshooting of circuits
- Design a paper circuit learning activity grounded in local requirements (i.e., required content standards, local educational initiative alignment, etc.) that includes formative and summative assessments of both content and technical skills/knowledge
- Identify the required activity materials (e.g., LEDs, batteries, conductive material) and how to source them beyond Chibitronics
Evidence of success:
- working circuits
- activity planning template completion
5 min—Welcome & Springboard Prompt: What’s your favorite thing about your subject/discipline that you wish you could share with all of your students? Write or sketch.
5 min: What Are Paper Circuits?
Pu Gong Ying Tu (http://technolojie.com/pu-gong-ying-tu-dandelion-painting/)
Starting with wonder and personal expression to drive curiosity and skill building
What did you see? What did you notice? Even if you don’t know how, what do you think is happening here?
30 min: The Simple Circuit
What’s a circuit? What’s all this stuff? Circuit basics & component review.
Create a simple circuit:
Guided practice w. template
Common issues/troubleshooting
Go back to your springboard prompt and draw or otherwise represent that idea in a way that meaningfully incorporates the light
Share at your tables/with neighbors.
5 min: Developing Students as Troubleshooting Experts
How to set up troubleshooting jigsaw “training” exercise using anti-examples
Unpacking the activity & establishing mistakes as normal and expected in the class
8 min: The Parallel Circuit
Circuit concept
Creative prompt
Create with template
Share
7 min: Simple Switch
Circuit concept
Creative prompt
Create with template
Share
10 min: Activity Planning, Part I
Activity planning template tour
Work time
10 min: Gallery walk—Add your initial ideas to the post-it paper with your content area & grade (Elementary, Middle, High School), walk around and pick up some new ideas, too!
We will post large post-it pads with different content areas pre-posted; teachers will also be able to add their own if not represented
10 min: Discussion & free educator resources
Paper Electronics with Circuit Stickers
Jie Qi, Natalie Freed, Jennifer Dick, David Cole. Makeology: Makerspaces as Learning Environments (Vol 1). Routledge, New York, NY. 2016
http://technolojie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Paper_electronics_makeology.pdf
Chibitronics in the Wild: Engaging New Communities in Creating Technology with Paper Electronics
Qi,J., Buechley, L., Huang, A., Ng,P., Cross, S. and Paradiso, J. A. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 252, 11 pages. 2018
http://technolojie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2018-Qi-CHI-chibitronics.pdf
Crafting technology with circuit stickers
Qi, J. , Huang, A. and Paradiso, J. 2015. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 438-441. 2015
http://technolojie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2015-Qi-IDC-craftingstickers.pdf
Circuit stickers: peel-and-stick construction of interactive electronic prototypes
Hodges, s., Villar, N., Chen, N., Chugh, T., Qi, J., Nowacka, D. and Kawahara, Y. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1743-1746. 2014
http://technolojie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2014-Hodges-CHI-stickers.pdf
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