ITR: A Networked, Media-Rich Programming Environment to Enhance Informal Learning and Technological Fluency at Community Technology Centers

ITR：网络富媒体编程环境提高社区技术中心的非正式学习和技术流畅性麻省理工学院媒体实验室和加州大学洛杉矶分校建议开发和研究一种新的网络富媒体编程环境，专门设计用于在经济困难社区的课后中心加强技术流畅性的发展。这种新的编程环境(将被称为Scratch)将以计算机俱乐部的实践和社会动态为基础，计算机俱乐部是一个课后中心网络，来自低收入社区的年轻人(10-18岁)在这里学习用新技术表达自己。我们将研究俱乐部青年(10-18岁)如何学习使用Scratch来设计和编程新型数字艺术项目，例如传感器控制的音乐作品、用可编程图像处理过滤器创建的特效视频、带有嵌入式控制器的机器人木偶，以及年轻人通过手持设备进行无线交易的动画人物。Scratch的网络基础设施，加上其多语言能力，将使年轻人能够跨越地理、语言和文化边界与其他年轻人分享他们的数字艺术创作。这项研究将增进对新技术的有效和创新设计的理解，以加强课后中心和其他非正规教育环境中的学习，并将扩大代表不足群体的年轻人成为新技术设计师和发明者的机会。我们将根据与年轻人和计算机俱乐部工作人员的持续互动，反复开发我们的技术。在电脑俱乐部使用Scratch将为经济困难社区的其他课后中心树立榜样，展示非正式学习环境如何支持技术流利性的发展，使年轻人能够设计和规划对自己和社区有意义的项目。

ITR: A Networked, Media-Rich Programming Environment to Enhance Informal Learning and Technological Fluency at Community Technology Centers The MIT Media Laboratory and UCLA propose to develop and study a new networked, media-rich programming environment, designed specifically to enhance the development of technological fluency at after-school centers in economically disadvantaged communities. This new programming environment (to be called Scratch) will be grounded in the practices and social dynamics of Computer Clubhouses, a network of after-school centers where youth (ages 10-18) from low-income communities learn to express themselves with new technologies. We will study how Clubhouse youth (ages 10-18) learn to use Scratch to design and program new types of digital-arts projects, such as sensor-controlled music compositions, special-effects videos created with programmable image-processing filters, robotic puppets with embedded controllers, and animated characters that youth trade wirelessly via handheld devices. Scratch's networking infrastructure, coupled with its multilingual capabilities, will enable youth to share their digital-arts creations with other youth across geographic, language, and cultural boundaries.This research will advance understanding of the effective and innovative design of new technologies to enhance learning in after-school centers and other informal-education settings, and it will broaden opportunities for youth from under-represented groups to become designers and inventors with new technologies. We will iteratively develop our technologies based on ongoing interaction with youth and staff at Computer Clubhouses. The use of Scratch at Computer Clubhouses will serve as a model for other after-school centers in economically-disadvantaged communities, demonstrating how informal-learning settings can support the development of technological fluency, enabling young people to design and program projects that are meaningful to themselves and their communities.