CodeQuilt
The Hour of Code provides brief stand-alone activities to introduce K-12 learners to computing concepts and applications. While these activities have successfully reached hundreds of millions of students around the globe, there are calls for more creative and critical engagement with computing than currently available. With CodeQuilt we developed an activity in which middle and high school youth were asked to design Scratch projects that engage with issues on who and what is computing. Projects were posted in a Scratch Studio and then pulled together for a quilt-like web display. In follow-up research in Summer 2021, we organized co-design workshops to get youth input on themes and Scratch designs.
Contributors
Luis Morales-Navarro, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Mia Shaw
Related Research
Kafai, Y., Jayathirtha, G., Shaw, M., & Morales-Navarro, L. (2021, June). CodeQuilt: Designing an Hour of Code Activity for Creative and Critical Engagement with Computing. In Interaction Design and Children. Link to PDF
Morales-Navarro, L., Jayathirtha, G., Kafai, Y., Shaw, M. (2021). Investigating Creative and Critical Engagement with Computing in the Hour of Code (Practical Report). Link to PDF