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Traditionally, researchers have portrayed informationseeking as systematic, orderly, and procedur... more Traditionally, researchers have portrayed informationseeking as systematic, orderly, and procedural. But as this child shows (Figure 1), seeking information using a keyword search interface on the Internet can lead to uncertainty and confusion, with a search process that can be repetitive, complex and at times end in frustration. This is a child we have come to call a Developing Searcher. He has challenges with spelling, typing, query formulation and results interpretation. Over the last year, our work with 83 children, ages 7, 9, and 11, have shown that these young people demonstrate seven distinctive search roles, sometimes with multiple roles present during any given information-seeking experience. To define these roles we examined their behavioral patterns by age and gender with particular interest in what triggered searching and what the barriers were.
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Mobile Media Learning shares innovative uses of mobile technology for learning in a variety of se... more Mobile Media Learning shares innovative uses of mobile technology for learning in a variety of settings. From camps to classrooms, parks to playgrounds, libraries to landmarks, Mobile Media Learning shows that exciting learning can happen anywhere educators can imagine. Join these educator/designers as they share their efforts to amplify spaces as learning tools by engaging learners with challenges, quests, stories, and tools for investigating those spaces.
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In this video we describe Energy House. Energy House is a game designed with the Cooperative Inqu... more In this video we describe Energy House. Energy House is a game designed with the Cooperative Inquiry Method through the Layered Elaboration technique. Children power items in a virtual house by jumping up and down
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and distributed, our design methods and techniques must evolve to better explore these new direct... more and distributed, our design methods and techniques must evolve to better explore these new directions. This paper reports on “Layered Elaboration, ” a co-design technique created to support these evolving needs. Layered Elaboration allows design teams to generate ideas through an iterative process in which each version leaves prior ideas intact while extending concepts. Layered Elaboration is a useful technique as it enables co-design to take place asynchronously and does not require much space or many resources. THE FOUNDATIONS OF LAYERED ELABORATION The concept for Layered Elaboration has its roots in storyboarding for interactive media [5], paper prototyping [8], and annotation tools [6]. Storyboards and drawings have been used as a method in participatory design research
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2018 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), 2018
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As technology for children becomes more mobile, social, and distributed, our design methods and t... more As technology for children becomes more mobile, social, and distributed, our design methods and techniques must evolve to better explore these new directions. This paper reports on "Layered Elaboration," a co-design technique created to support these evolving needs. .Layered Elaboration allows design teams to generate ideas through an iterative process in which each version leaves prior ideas intact while extending concepts. Layered Elaboration is a useful technique as it enables co-design to take place asynchronously and does not require much space or many resources. Our intergenerational team, including adults and children ages 7 -- 11 years old, used the technique to design both a game about history and a prototype of an instructional game about energy conservation.
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Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2021
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The paper that accompanies this poster contains the design, findings, and critique of a qualitati... more The paper that accompanies this poster contains the design, findings, and critique of a qualitative case study implemented during the summer of 2013 to uncover and understand African-American (Black) students’ perspectives of computer programming and computer science as they progress through learning and applying simple to complex computer programming concepts. The case contains courses offered by Uplift, Inc., a nonprofit organization in Washington, DC that provides courses in science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics in computer science (STEAM+CS). It begins with an introduction to the challenge in the United States of attracting minority populations to these fields and introduces some current programs that expose African American students to CS, including those offered by Uplift, Inc. The importance of understanding these student perspectives and the necessity to uncover how their perspectives may change over time as they gradually learn and apply more complex programmi...
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• Why? Programming allows children to explore creative topics and learn problem-solving skills. •... more • Why? Programming allows children to explore creative topics and learn problem-solving skills. • How? With tangible programming, children can easily work together and move around. • Design partnering [2] refers to a design process in which children actively help create the design. • The Kidsteam project is a vehicle for design partnering at the University of Maryland. • In our two 2-hour design sessions, there were 4 or more children (aged 7-12) and 6 or more adults. • To demonstrate our goals, we began by presenting a prototype for collaborative music programming made by Tarkan. • Musically-themed tangibles reappropriated as cooking objects • System supported iteration, deletion, and audio-tutorial • Wizard-of-oz execution • Sounds, Alice [1] simulation of cooking, and Java-like code as output
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In this video we describe Energy House. Energy House is a game designed with the Cooperative Inqu... more In this video we describe Energy House. Energy House is a game designed with the Cooperative Inquiry Method through the Layered Elaboration technique. Children power items in a virtual house by jumping up and down.
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Traditionally, researchers have portrayed informationseeking as systematic, orderly, and procedur... more Traditionally, researchers have portrayed informationseeking as systematic, orderly, and procedural. But as this child shows (Figure 1), seeking information using a keyword search interface on the Internet can lead to uncertainty and confusion, with a search process that can be repetitive, complex and at times end in frustration. This is a child we have come to call a Developing Searcher. He has challenges with spelling, typing, query formulation and results interpretation. Over the last year, our work with 83 children, ages 7, 9, and 11, have shown that these young people demonstrate seven distinctive search roles, sometimes with multiple roles present during any given information-seeking experience. To define these roles we examined their behavioral patterns by age and gender with particular interest in what triggered searching and what the barriers were.
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Mobile Media Learning shares innovative uses of mobile technology for learning in a variety of se... more Mobile Media Learning shares innovative uses of mobile technology for learning in a variety of settings. From camps to classrooms, parks to playgrounds, libraries to landmarks, Mobile Media Learning shows that exciting learning can happen anywhere educators can imagine. Join these educator/designers as they share their efforts to amplify spaces as learning tools by engaging learners with challenges, quests, stories, and tools for investigating those spaces.
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In this video we describe Energy House. Energy House is a game designed with the Cooperative Inqu... more In this video we describe Energy House. Energy House is a game designed with the Cooperative Inquiry Method through the Layered Elaboration technique. Children power items in a virtual house by jumping up and down
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and distributed, our design methods and techniques must evolve to better explore these new direct... more and distributed, our design methods and techniques must evolve to better explore these new directions. This paper reports on “Layered Elaboration, ” a co-design technique created to support these evolving needs. Layered Elaboration allows design teams to generate ideas through an iterative process in which each version leaves prior ideas intact while extending concepts. Layered Elaboration is a useful technique as it enables co-design to take place asynchronously and does not require much space or many resources. THE FOUNDATIONS OF LAYERED ELABORATION The concept for Layered Elaboration has its roots in storyboarding for interactive media [5], paper prototyping [8], and annotation tools [6]. Storyboards and drawings have been used as a method in participatory design research
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2018 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), 2018
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As technology for children becomes more mobile, social, and distributed, our design methods and t... more As technology for children becomes more mobile, social, and distributed, our design methods and techniques must evolve to better explore these new directions. This paper reports on "Layered Elaboration," a co-design technique created to support these evolving needs. .Layered Elaboration allows design teams to generate ideas through an iterative process in which each version leaves prior ideas intact while extending concepts. Layered Elaboration is a useful technique as it enables co-design to take place asynchronously and does not require much space or many resources. Our intergenerational team, including adults and children ages 7 -- 11 years old, used the technique to design both a game about history and a prototype of an instructional game about energy conservation.
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The paper that accompanies this poster contains the design, findings, and critique of a qualitati... more The paper that accompanies this poster contains the design, findings, and critique of a qualitative case study implemented during the summer of 2013 to uncover and understand African-American (Black) students’ perspectives of computer programming and computer science as they progress through learning and applying simple to complex computer programming concepts. The case contains courses offered by Uplift, Inc., a nonprofit organization in Washington, DC that provides courses in science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics in computer science (STEAM+CS). It begins with an introduction to the challenge in the United States of attracting minority populations to these fields and introduces some current programs that expose African American students to CS, including those offered by Uplift, Inc. The importance of understanding these student perspectives and the necessity to uncover how their perspectives may change over time as they gradually learn and apply more complex programmi...
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• Why? Programming allows children to explore creative topics and learn problem-solving skills. •... more • Why? Programming allows children to explore creative topics and learn problem-solving skills. • How? With tangible programming, children can easily work together and move around. • Design partnering [2] refers to a design process in which children actively help create the design. • The Kidsteam project is a vehicle for design partnering at the University of Maryland. • In our two 2-hour design sessions, there were 4 or more children (aged 7-12) and 6 or more adults. • To demonstrate our goals, we began by presenting a prototype for collaborative music programming made by Tarkan. • Musically-themed tangibles reappropriated as cooking objects • System supported iteration, deletion, and audio-tutorial • Wizard-of-oz execution • Sounds, Alice [1] simulation of cooking, and Java-like code as output
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