Co-teaching Robotics and E-textiles With Non-linear Maker Pedagogy

Abstract

Non-linear maker pedagogy (NMP) provides opportunities for collaborative invention and improvisation, pupil-directed situated inquiry, and artifact creation combining material and digital realms. With co-teaching platforms to introduce NMP via the digital technologies of robotics and e-textiles, and through six co-teacher team interviews, we identified both successes and challenges. Despite some conservative reactions, several pupils excelled at collaboratively making unique smart artifacts, and most of the teachers thought their selected pedagogical approaches were not unduly ambitious.