Chronicles of Exploration: Examining the Materiality of Computational Artifacts
Chronicles of Exploration: Examining the Materiality of Computational Artifacts
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10.1145/3568813.3600132
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2023-08
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Michael J. Johnson;F. Castro;Betsy Disalvo;Kayla Desportes
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作者：
Michael J. Johnson;F. Castro;Betsy Disalvo;Kayla Desportes
艺术计算学习环境在探索如何支持计算中的公平和包容方面具有核心重要性。例如，对电子纺织品、音乐和互动媒体的探索，为学习如何在创建与文化相关的人工制品的同时进行编程创造了多种机会。然而，在这些建构主义环境中，我们对学习者的设计过程的理解存在差距，包括计算工件及其组件如何影响学习过程，以及它们如何通过计算构建意义和代理。我们提倡研究更密切地关注计算材料的实质性，以了解它们如何影响学生学习的社会和文化维度。在本文中，我们对6名高中学习者在共同设计的艺术和计算机课程中的体验进行了分析。我们的分析强调了组件的重要性是如何影响学习者发展个人和认识论与计算的联系的方式的，这是基于它如何使他们能够联系他们的兴趣，表达他们的想法，与他们的社区互动，并克服或应对挑战以达到他们的最终设计。我们展示了如何在计算构建套件的设计中集中物质性可以告知我们如何支持机构和参与计算。
Artistic computing learning environments have been of central importance in the exploration of how to support equity and inclusion in computing. Explorations within e-textiles, music, and interactive media, for example, have created diverse opportunities for learning how to program while creating culturally relevant artifacts. However, there is a gap in our understanding of the design processes of learners in these constructionist environments, including how the computational artifacts and their components impact the learning processes and the ways they build meaning and agency with computing. We advocate for research to attend more closely to the materiality of the computational materials to understand how they impact the social and cultural dimensions in which students are learning. In this paper, we present an analysis of 6 high school learners’ experiences within a co-designed arts and computing curriculum. Our analyses highlight how the materiality of the components impacted the ways in which learners developed personal and epistemological connections to computing based on how it enabled them to connect to their interests, represent their ideas, engage with their community, and overcome or navigate around challenges to get to their final designs. We demonstrate how centralizing the materiality in the design of computational construction kits can inform how we support agency and engagement with computing.