From Computational Thinking to Computational Empowerment: A 21st Century PD Agenda

Ole Sejer Iversen; Rachel Charlotte Smith; Christian Dindler

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From Computational Thinking to Computational Empowerment: A 21st Century PD Agenda

Ole Sejer Iversen, Rachel Charlotte Smith, Christian Dindler

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We propose computational empowerment as an approach, and a Participatory Design response, to challenges related to digitalization of society and the emerging need for digital literacy in K12 education. Our approach extends the current focus on computational thinking to include contextual, human-centred and societal challenges and impacts involved in students’ creative and critical engagement with digital technology. Our research is based on the FabLab@School project, in which a PD approach to computational empowerment provided opportunities as well as further challenges for the complex agenda of digital technology in education. We argue that PD has the potential to drive a computational empowerment agenda in education, by connecting political PD with contemporary visions for addressing a future digitalized labor market and society.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2018, Genk, Belgium
Number of pages	11
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	20 Aug 2018
Article number	7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-6371-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3210586.3210592
Publication status	Published - 20 Aug 2018

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Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2018, Genk, Belgium. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. 7.

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