Creative Computing Cookbook: Grounding Artistic Computing in the Learning Sciences

艺术计算学习环境能够激发 K-12 学习者对 STEM 领域的兴趣并支持计算的包容性。该项目名为“创意计算食谱”，研究面向教师和学习者的资源的共同设计和实施，以支持公平的艺术和计算学习体验。 《创意计算食谱》中的食谱指导学习者在构建自己的艺术计算工件和表演时，掌握源自计算机科学教师协会 K-12 计算机科学标准的概念和实践。学生将学习使用控制结构、嵌套循环和复合条件等算法组件，同时培养问题泛化技能，使他们能够重用现有代码，模仿专业程序员的工作方式。该项目的合作伙伴包括两个艺术教育组织：Community Word Project (CWP) 和 STEM From Dance (SFD)，它们为纽约地区 4000 多名学生提供服务，这些学生来自历史上在技术领域代表性不足的群体。该项目与艺术教育工作者和学生的共同设计将为参与基于文化和学科知识的计算和艺术实践创造真正的机会。该项目将增加研究代码重新混合如何支持学习计算技能和实践，以及如何构建重新混合的工作。将测试具体的脚手架策略，例如工作示例（其中通过问题陈述和解决问题的过程向学习者提供专家的问题解决模型）、帕森斯问题（其中学习者将混合的程序代码块按正确的顺序排列）和基于案例的推理（一种解决问题的建构主义理论，用于告知应如何设计活动，以帮助学生处理、索引、参考和应用先前的案例来实现他们当前的艺术目标）。 收集的数据将是定性的，包括会议记录、设计工件、课程资源、试点记录、观察笔记、学生工件、对学生和教师的访谈、认知演练记录、批评、学生对工件的反思和教师工件。分析将需要定性编码和案例研究的构建。该项目将广泛有助于理解如何支持跨学科学习，同时保留青年能动性和嵌入公平实践，特别是理解如何支持创造性计算工作。该食谱和其他支持材料将免费提供给其他类似组织，提高他们制定和支持创造性编码活动的能力，这些活动可以鼓励代表性不足的学习者发展计算技能和亲和力。该项目由学生和教师创新技术体验 (ITEST) 计划资助，该计划支持加深对实践、计划要素、背景和流程的理解的项目，有助于增加学生对科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 以及信息和通信技术 (ICT) 职业的知识和兴趣。该项目还通过 CS for All：研究和 RPP 计划提供资助。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Artistic computing learning environments have the ability to stimulate K-12 learners' interest in STEM fields and support inclusivity in computing. This project, named Creative Computing Cookbook, investigates the co-design and implementation of instructor- and learner-facing resources to support equitable art and computing learning experiences. Recipes in the Creative Computing Cookbook guide learners in developing mastery of concepts and practices derived from the Computer Science Teachers Association K-12 Computer Science Standards as they construct their own artistic computing artifacts and performances. The students will learn to use algorithmic components such as control structures, nested loops, and compound conditionals, while also developing problem generalization skills that allow them to reuse existing code, emulating how professional programmers work. The project’s partners include two arts education organizations, Community Word Project (CWP) and STEM From Dance (SFD), which serve over 4000 students in the New York City area from groups that are historically underrepresented in technology. The project’s co-design with art educators and students will create authentic opportunities to engage in computing and artistic practices grounded in cultural and disciplinary knowledge. The project will add to the body of work studying how code remixing can support learning computational skills and practices, and how that remixing can be scaffolded. Specific scaffolding strategies will be tested, like worked examples (wherein learners are provided with an expert’s problem-solving model via a problem statement and a procedure for solving the problem), Parsons problems (wherein learners arrange blocks of mixed-up program code into the correct order), and case-based reasoning (a constructivist theory of problem solving that will be used to inform how activities should be designed to help students process, index, reference, and apply prior cases to accomplish their current artistic goal). Data to be collected will be qualitative and includes meeting notes, design artifacts, curricular resources, and recordings of pilots, observation notes, student artifacts, interviews with students and instructors, cognitive walk-through recordings, critiques, student reflections on artifacts, and teacher artifacts. Analysis will entail qualitative coding and the construction of case studies. The project will contribute broadly to the understanding of how to support interdisciplinary learning while preserving youth agency and embedding equity practices, and specifically to the understanding of how to scaffold creative computing endeavors. The cookbook and other supporting materials will be made freely available to other similar organizations, increasing their capacity to enact and support creative coding activities that can encourage underrepresented learners to develop computational skills and affinities. This project is funded by the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, which supports projects that build understandings of practices, program elements, contexts and processes contributing to increasing students' knowledge and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communication technology (ICT) careers. This project is also funded through the CS for All: Research and RPPs program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.