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Empowerment through design: engaging alternative high school students through the design, development and crafting of digitally-enhanced pets

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	DuMont, Maneksha
Abstract	Students in alternative school are not served by existing interventions, which often focus on remediation and rote learning. Tangible computational crafts, because of their emotional affordances and relationships to youth's known likes and activities, may be a way to engage struggling students in sophisticated learning through design projects. I aim to explore how underachieving youth enrolled in a rural alternative public high school for failing students use PicoBoard, an external logic board, to design, develop and craft their own digital pets. The study focuses on empowering novice students to be designers. Questions include how students engage in the process of finding and fixing errors, and whether the design project helps students develop a productive relationship to making mistakes and learning. Initial analyses suggest students without programming experience can design and develop a personal digital pet over the course of five weeks, that students take pride in their physical creations, divide work tasks according to perceived strengths, and learn important aspects of debugging and code remixing, even when not confident about their abilities.
Starting Page	343
Ending Page	346
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450310079
DOI	10.1145/2307096.2307163
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2012-06-12
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Constructionism Scratch Debugging Picoboard Children's programming Tangible technologies
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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