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。这个项目，名为创意计算食谱，研究共同设计和实施的教师和面向学习者的资源，以支持公平的艺术和计算学习经验。创意计算食谱中的食谱指导学习者掌握计算机科学教师协会K-12计算机科学标准中的概念和实践，因为他们构建了自己的艺术计算工件和表演。学生将学习使用算法组件，如控制结构，嵌套循环和复合条件，同时还开发问题泛化技能，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，社区文字项目（CWP）和STEM从舞蹈（SFD），这是超过4000名学生在纽约市地区的群体，历史上在技术代表性不足。该项目与艺术教育工作者和学生的共同设计将创造真正的机会，参与基于文化和学科知识的计算和艺术实践。该项目将增加研究代码混合如何支持学习计算技能和实践的工作，以及如何混合可以脚手架。具体的脚手架策略将进行测试，如工作的例子（其中，经由问题陈述和用于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（其中学习者将混淆的程序代码块排列成正确的顺序），和案例推理（问题解决的建构主义理论，将用于告知活动应如何设计，以帮助学生处理，索引，参考，并应用先前的案例来实现他们当前的艺术目标）。 要收集的数据将是定性的，包括会议记录，设计工件，课程资源，和飞行员的录音，观察笔记，学生工件，与学生和教师的访谈，认知走通过录音，批评，学生对工件的反思，和教师工件。分析工作将涉及定性编码和个案研究的构建。该项目将有助于广泛了解如何支持跨学科学习，同时保持青年机构和嵌入公平的做法，特别是如何支架创造性的计算努力的理解。该食谱和其他辅助材料将免费提供给其他类似的组织，提高它们的能力，以制定和支持创造性的编码活动，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，该计划支持建立对实践，计划元素，背景和过程的理解的项目，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。该项目也通过CS for All：Research and RPPs计划获得资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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.