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

Ricarose Roque; Mariana Aki Tamashiro; Kathryn McConnell; Julisa Granados

doi:10.1145/3459990.3460728

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

Ricarose Roque, Mariana Aki Tamashiro, Kathryn McConnell, Julisa Granados

School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021
Number of pages	11
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	Jun 2021
Pages	246-256
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450384520
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3460728
Publication status	Published - Jun 2021
Event	2021 ACM Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021 - Virtual, Online, Greece Duration: 24 Jun 2021 → 30 Jun 2021

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Conference	2021 ACM Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Virtual, Online
Period	24/06/2021 → 30/06/2021

Series	Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021

Keywords

computational construction kits
culturally responsive computing
family learning
storytelling

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Roque, Ricarose ; Tamashiro, Mariana Aki ; McConnell, Kathryn et al. / Opportunities and Limitations of Construction Kits in Culturally Responsive Computing Contexts : Lessons from ScratchJr and Family Creative Learning. Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. pp. 246-256 (Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021).

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Roque, R, Tamashiro, MA, McConnell, K & Granados, J 2021, Opportunities and Limitations of Construction Kits in Culturally Responsive Computing Contexts: Lessons from ScratchJr and Family Creative Learning. in Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021, pp. 246-256, 2021 ACM Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021, Virtual, Online, Greece, 24/06/2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3460728

Opportunities and Limitations of Construction Kits in Culturally Responsive Computing Contexts: Lessons from ScratchJr and Family Creative Learning. / Roque, Ricarose; Tamashiro, Mariana Aki; McConnell, Kathryn et al.
Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 246-256 (Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021).

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Roque R, Tamashiro MA, McConnell K, Granados J. Opportunities and Limitations of Construction Kits in Culturally Responsive Computing Contexts: Lessons from ScratchJr and Family Creative Learning. In Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021. Association for Computing Machinery. 2021. p. 246-256. (Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021). doi: 10.1145/3459990.3460728

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