My learning design philosophy centers play, imagination, and hands-on making as key mechanisms for building knowledge, particularly in early childhood STEM domains.
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(B1) Noam, G., McDaniel, D., Triggs, B., & Bergman, A. (2023). Data narratives for action: Innovative approaches
to data collection and reporting to tell the story of informal science learning. In J. Diamond & S.
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