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。这项名为《创意计算指南》的项目调查了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。创造性计算手册中的食谱指导学习者在构建自己的艺术计算文物和表演时，掌握来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。学生将学习使用算法组件，如控制结构、嵌套循环和复合条件，同时还将开发问题泛化技能，使他们能够重复使用现有代码，模拟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，社区世界项目(CWP)和来自舞蹈的STEM(SFD)，这两个组织为纽约市地区的4000多名学生提供服务，这些学生来自历史上在技术方面代表性不足的群体。该项目与艺术教育者和学生的合作设计将创造真正的机会，从事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，以及如何为这种混合搭建脚手架的工作主体。具体的支架式策略将被测试，如工作示例(通过问题陈述和解决问题的程序为学习者提供专家的问题解决模型)，Parsons问题(学习者将混淆的程序代码块按正确的顺序排列)，以及基于案例的推理(一种建构主义的问题解决理论，将用于告知应该如何设计活动，以帮助学生处理、索引、参考和应用先前的案例，以实现他们当前的艺术目标)。收集的数据将是定性的，包括会议笔记、设计文物、课程资源、飞行员的录音、观察笔记、学生文物、对学生和教师的采访、认知演练录音、评论、学生对文物的反思和教师文物。分析将需要进行定性编码和构建案例研究。该项目将广泛地有助于理解如何支持跨学科学习，同时保留青年机构和嵌入公平做法，特别是有助于理解如何支撑创造性的计算努力。食谱和其他辅助材料将免费提供给其他类似的组织，增加它们制定和支持创造性编码活动的能力，以鼓励代表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计划(ITEST)资助，该计划支持的项目旨在加深对实践、计划要素、背景和过程的理解，有助于提高学生对科学、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。这个项目也是通过CS for All：Research and RPPS计划资助的。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.