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    With a focus on learning through personally relevant projects, students in makerspaces engage in meaningful design. Maker portfolios are increasingly being used to capture and assess progress and learning in these spaces. The Connected Spaces Dashboard focuses on maker identity development and collaboration between makers in and across makerspaces. We implemented a prototype version of the Dashboard in Spring 2023, in two after-school makerspaces. Analysis of two student interviews and Dashboard profiles highlighted the aspects of the tool that were effective (e.g., student affinities) and those that needed improvement (e.g., its ambient presence). We utilize these findings to inform the development of the next version of the Dashboard. 
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    In education, we cherish success and fear failure. But not every learning experience is a success right away, in fact failing and making mistakes and then learning from them is the norm rather than the exception. In this symposium, we present different perspectives on how failure can contribute to constructionist learning and teaching, examining how learners identify and address failures in their designs and how distinct approaches to failure can support learners in collaboratively creating personally meaningful projects. Taking a holistic approach to failure—that incorporates cognitive, social, and affective factors—we argue that failure should play a key role in constructionism and present different perspectives for finding a more productive stance that turns failures into rich opportunities for constructionist learning and teaching. 
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    Focusing on developing maker-identities, especially for historically marginalized students in the computational field, can empower them to recognize and take ownership of their space in the field. Drawing from identity related literature in maker and computing related fields we identified seven factors of maker-identity - interest and motivation, competence and performance, confidence and self-efficacy, recognition, utility value and meaningfulness, perceptions of community, and external factors. Using this, we analyzed semi-structured interviews of students who participated in our summer makerspace camp to understand how these identity factors manifested in their reflections of the camp. We tie back our findings of positive impacts on maker-identity structures to the design structures of our makerspace such as co-design of the space, use-modify-create strategies, and open-ended design projects. 
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  4. ; (, Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023)
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