Opportunities and Limitations of Construction Kits in Culturally Responsive Computing Contexts: Lessons from ScratchJr and Family Creative Learning

TY - GEN

T1 - Opportunities and Limitations of Construction Kits in Culturally Responsive Computing Contexts

T2 - 2021 ACM Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021

AU - Roque, Ricarose

AU - Tamashiro, Mariana Aki

AU - McConnell, Kathryn

AU - Granados, Julisa

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Owner/Author.

PY - 2021/6

Y1 - 2021/6

N2 - In this paper, we investigate the opportunities and limitations that emerge when we engage youth and their families in creating and sharing stories with a computational construction kit, specifically the ScratchJr programming environment. We examine the participation of children and their families in the Family Creative Learning program, a culturally responsive computing context that engages families to create and share stories with computing. Our findings highlight the ways that families discovered new possibilities for their storytelling using the computational construction kit, but they also experienced challenges in representing their stories and themselves. We discuss the opportunities in storytelling with construction kits and possible limitations when designing to support expression, especially among groups historically marginalized from computing spaces.

AB - In this paper, we investigate the opportunities and limitations that emerge when we engage youth and their families in creating and sharing stories with a computational construction kit, specifically the ScratchJr programming environment. We examine the participation of children and their families in the Family Creative Learning program, a culturally responsive computing context that engages families to create and share stories with computing. Our findings highlight the ways that families discovered new possibilities for their storytelling using the computational construction kit, but they also experienced challenges in representing their stories and themselves. We discuss the opportunities in storytelling with construction kits and possible limitations when designing to support expression, especially among groups historically marginalized from computing spaces.

KW - computational construction kits

KW - culturally responsive computing

KW - family learning

KW - storytelling

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85110076253&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3459990.3460728

DO - 10.1145/3459990.3460728

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:85110076253

T3 - Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021

SP - 246

EP - 256

BT - Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

Y2 - 24 June 2021 through 30 June 2021

ER -