Makerspaces provide a setting for active learning—exploring, innovating, creating—but making as learning is a relatively new phenomenon, and the formal research behind it is still developing. Research findings from the realms of psychology and cognitive science can give educators some…

This spring, twenty teens took a three-day trip to the Windy City, where they visited some of the city’s most well known sites. But these teens weren’t tourists. They traveled to Chicago for a series of teacher development experiences. These…