The CCL-parallax programmable badge: Learning with low-cost, communicative wearable computers

Corey Brady; David Weintrop; Ken Gracey; Gabby Anton; Uri Wilensky

doi:10.1145/10.1145/2808006.2808039

The CCL-parallax programmable badge: Learning with low-cost, communicative wearable computers

Corey Brady, David Weintrop, Ken Gracey, Gabby Anton, Uri Wilensky

School of Education and Social Policy

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5 Scopus citations

Abstract

The rise of "Bring Your Own Device" programs, the emergence of wearables and interactive electronics, and the growing presence of the "Internet of Things" in the workplace, all present new challenges to members of the IT profession. To prepare students for this ever-changing landscape, we propose the use of low-cost, wearable badges to introduce learners to central IT concepts in an innovative, engaging, and social way. In this paper, we introduce the CCL-Parallax Programmable Badge - an open-hardware communicative device that uniquely brings together various components of the IT curriculum. Along with introducing the badges and situating them within almost two decades of research on the use of similar devices in educational contexts, we present both theoretical and practical justifications for the use of programmable badges in IT classrooms. The badges highlight the collaborative, social aspects of IT while grounding the learning experience in authentic, motivating, and hands-on activities.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	SIGITE 2015 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	139-144
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450338356
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/10.1145/2808006.2808039
State	Published - Sep 29 2015
Event	16th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education, SIGITE 2015 - Chicago, United States Duration: Sep 30 2015 → Oct 3 2015

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Name	SIGITE 2015 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education

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Other	16th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education, SIGITE 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago
Period	9/30/15 → 10/3/15

Funding

This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1438813.

Keywords

IT education
Networking and communications
Open hardware
Participatory simulations
Programmable badges

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computational Theory and Mathematics
Computer Science Applications
Software
Artificial Intelligence

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Brady, C., Weintrop, D., Gracey, K., Anton, G., & Wilensky, U. (2015). The CCL-parallax programmable badge: Learning with low-cost, communicative wearable computers. In SIGITE 2015 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education (pp. 139-144). (SIGITE 2015 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/10.1145/2808006.2808039

Brady, Corey ; Weintrop, David ; Gracey, Ken et al. / The CCL-parallax programmable badge : Learning with low-cost, communicative wearable computers. SIGITE 2015 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2015. pp. 139-144 (SIGITE 2015 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education).

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Brady, C, Weintrop, D, Gracey, K, Anton, G & Wilensky, U 2015, The CCL-parallax programmable badge: Learning with low-cost, communicative wearable computers. in SIGITE 2015 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education. SIGITE 2015 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 139-144, 16th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education, SIGITE 2015, Chicago, United States, 9/30/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/10.1145/2808006.2808039

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Brady C, Weintrop D, Gracey K, Anton G, Wilensky U. The CCL-parallax programmable badge: Learning with low-cost, communicative wearable computers. In SIGITE 2015 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2015. p. 139-144. (SIGITE 2015 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education). doi: 10.1145/10.1145/2808006.2808039

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