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

ITR：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化的，媒体丰富的编程环境，旨在提高技术流畅性的发展在课后中心在经济上处于不利地位的社区。这个新的编程环境（将被称为Scratch）将以计算机俱乐部的实践和社会动态为基础，这是一个课后中心网络，来自低收入社区的青年（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来设计和编程新型的数字艺术项目，如传感器控制的音乐作品，使用可编程图像处理过滤器创建的特效视频，嵌入式控制器的机器人木偶，以及青年通过手持设备无线交易的动画角色。Scratch的网络基础设施，加上其多语言功能，将使年轻人能够跨越地理，语言和文化界限与其他年轻人分享他们的数字艺术创作。这项研究将促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式教育环境的学习，它将扩大代表性不足群体的青年成为新技术设计师和发明家的机会。我们将反复开发我们的技术的基础上正在进行的互动与青年和工作人员在计算机俱乐部。Scratch在计算机俱乐部的使用将成为经济弱势社区其他课后中心的典范，展示非正式学习环境如何支持技术流畅性的发展，使年轻人能够设计和编程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.