Reimagining and Co-designing with Youth an Hour of Code Activity for Critical Engagement with Computing

Luis Morales-Navarro; Naomi Thompson; Yasmin Kafai; Mia Shaw; Nichole Pinkard

doi:10.1145/3501712.3529730

Reimagining and Co-designing with Youth an Hour of Code Activity for Critical Engagement with Computing

Luis Morales-Navarro, Naomi Thompson, Yasmin Kafai, Mia Shaw, Nichole Pinkard

School of Education and Social Policy

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine a co-design workshop in which youth redesigned a learning activity for critical engagement with computing for the Hour of Code, an annual event that offers hour-long introductory computing activities to youth. We conducted co-design workshops during summer 2021 in two cities with 12 youth of Color (ages 11-15 years), in which we employed different reflective, collaborative and making activities to investigate youths' critical perceptions of computing and address the following research questions: (1) What are the perspectives of youth from groups historically marginalized in computing on critical issues in computing? (2) What kinds of projects do youth create in Scratch to address critical issues in computing? and (3) How do youth reflect on the learning activity and make changes to implement it with their peers? In the discussion, we address what we learned about co-designing a critical computing learning activity with youth.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2022
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	288-296
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450391979
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3501712.3529730
State	Published - Jun 27 2022
Event	21st ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2022 - Virtual, Online, Portugal Duration: Jun 27 2022 → Jun 30 2022

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Name	Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2022

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Conference	21st ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2022
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Virtual, Online
Period	6/27/22 → 6/30/22

Keywords

Co-design
Creative computing
Critical computing
Critical design
Hour of Code
Scratch

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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Morales-Navarro, L., Thompson, N., Kafai, Y., Shaw, M., & Pinkard, N. (2022). Reimagining and Co-designing with Youth an Hour of Code Activity for Critical Engagement with Computing. In Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2022 (pp. 288-296). (Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3501712.3529730

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Morales-Navarro, L, Thompson, N, Kafai, Y, Shaw, M & Pinkard, N 2022, Reimagining and Co-designing with Youth an Hour of Code Activity for Critical Engagement with Computing. in Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2022. Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2022, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 288-296, 21st ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2022, Virtual, Online, Portugal, 6/27/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3501712.3529730

Reimagining and Co-designing with Youth an Hour of Code Activity for Critical Engagement with Computing. / Morales-Navarro, Luis; Thompson, Naomi; Kafai, Yasmin et al.
Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2022. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2022. p. 288-296 (Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2022).

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Morales-Navarro L, Thompson N, Kafai Y, Shaw M, Pinkard N. Reimagining and Co-designing with Youth an Hour of Code Activity for Critical Engagement with Computing. In Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2022. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2022. p. 288-296. (Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2022). doi: 10.1145/3501712.3529730

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