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Youth as media art designers: workshops for creative coding

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Kylie A. Peppler,

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IDC '08: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Interaction design and children

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1463689.1463740

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We describe our efforts to bring media arts into design work with the goals to introduce new expressive forms in programming to urban youth. We're presenting the findings from a series of workshop organized together with professional media artists that focused on immersion, interaction, color and perspective using Scratch, a media-rich programming environment. Our findings illustrate that a focused introduction of these features can be easily accomplished and help young designers to become more sophisticated in their creative expression. In the discussion we outline suggestions for activity and theme designs for future workshops.

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Guzdial M(2015)Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: Research on Computing for EveryoneSynthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics10.2200/S00684ED1V01Y201511HCI0338:6(1-165)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2015
https://doi.org/10.2200/S00684ED1V01Y201511HCI033
Høiseth MJaccheri L(2011)Art and technology for young creatorsProceedings of the 10th international conference on Entertainment Computing10.1007/978-3-642-24500-8_22(210-221)Online publication date: 5-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-24500-8_22

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DOI:10.1145/1463689

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Guzdial M(2015)Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: Research on Computing for EveryoneSynthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics10.2200/S00684ED1V01Y201511HCI0338:6(1-165)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2015
https://doi.org/10.2200/S00684ED1V01Y201511HCI033
Høiseth MJaccheri L(2011)Art and technology for young creatorsProceedings of the 10th international conference on Entertainment Computing10.1007/978-3-642-24500-8_22(210-221)Online publication date: 5-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-24500-8_22

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