Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/proceeding › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › peer review
Knit x Code : Exploring a Craftsmanship-driven Approach to Computational Thinking. / Sørensen, Marie-Louise Stisen K; Fog, Bjarke Vognstrup; Musaeus, Line Have et al.
Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures : Adjunct Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI'22). New York : Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. 48.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/proceeding › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › peer review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Knit x Code
T2 - 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures, NordiCHI 2022
AU - Sørensen, Marie-Louise Stisen K
AU - Fog, Bjarke Vognstrup
AU - Musaeus, Line Have
AU - Petersen, Marianne Graves
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Owner/Author.
PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - In recent years, computational thinking (CT) has focused on how children and citizens develop basic computing skills which empower them to participate in a digitised society and broaden participation and engagement with CT. We present the exploration of a craftsmanship-driven approach to engage people in CT. To explore this approach a team of knitters, a computer scientist and a computing education expert iteratively designed the KnitxCode workshop. KnitxCode utilises knitting in combination with CT concepts as the foundation for the activities. The workshop was evaluated by 12 participants with no programming experience and with knitting experience ranging from 2-25 years (M = 6). From the evaluation we found that the craftsmanship-driven approach seemed to provide the participants with confidence to learning CT, as shared concepts and practices between knitting and computing supported transitioning from knitting craftsmanship to computing and in this way served to demystify computing.
AB - In recent years, computational thinking (CT) has focused on how children and citizens develop basic computing skills which empower them to participate in a digitised society and broaden participation and engagement with CT. We present the exploration of a craftsmanship-driven approach to engage people in CT. To explore this approach a team of knitters, a computer scientist and a computing education expert iteratively designed the KnitxCode workshop. KnitxCode utilises knitting in combination with CT concepts as the foundation for the activities. The workshop was evaluated by 12 participants with no programming experience and with knitting experience ranging from 2-25 years (M = 6). From the evaluation we found that the craftsmanship-driven approach seemed to provide the participants with confidence to learning CT, as shared concepts and practices between knitting and computing supported transitioning from knitting craftsmanship to computing and in this way served to demystify computing.
KW - applied computing
KW - HCI
KW - #CCTD
U2 - 10.1145/3547522.3547680
DO - 10.1145/3547522.3547680
M3 - Article in proceedings
BT - Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
CY - New York
Y2 - 8 October 2022 through 12 October 2022
ER -