Designing to illuminate children's scientific funds of knowledge through social media sharing

Re-defining Characteristics of a Design Protagonist – Elements of Children’s Design Capital

“…Children with different backgrounds mobilize their personal, cultural, and social FoK such as everyday knowledge, languages, and practices as they are engaged in sharing their everyday experiences through social media (Mills et al 2018;Mills et al 2019). However, a limited number of papers explicitly capitalize on different forms of FoK and apply them to investigate the value of FoK as a key resource in design activities.…”

Leveraging funds of knowledge to manage privacy practices in families

“…Moll et al (), p. 20 explain that classroom and research agendas usually assume that minority students come from “socially and intellectually limiting family environments, or that these students lack ability, or there is something wrong with their thinking or their values, especially in comparison to their wealthier peers.” But, “funds of knowledge is an antithesis to this approach” (Mills, , p. 7). Children, their families, and communities are assumed to be competent and possess valuable knowledge gained from life experience that forms the basis for education.…”

“…Mills () examines funds of knowledge in the context of science education. She identifies four settings for funds of knowledge—home, neighborhood, school, and after school.…”

“…Using funds of knowledge in the classroom for instruction is a way to legitimize and value students' out-of-school experiences in their home or community (Kajamaa et al, 2018). Mills (2019) examines funds of knowledge in the context of science education. She identifies four settings for funds of knowledge-home, neighborhood, school, and after school.…”

“…Most of this work focuses on bringing funds of knowledge into formal education settings (Chen et al, ) or using it to improve school curricula (Mills, ). While studies on funds of knowledge have examined families as the unit of analysis, they typically focus on children learning from family members rather than on the different funds of knowledge each family member contributes to collective family learning.…”