ETextiles Portfolios
Making e-textiles artifacts provides a rich context for learning but offer few opportunities for students to articulate and reflect on their acts of learning and making. Yet beyond artifact creation, acts of communication enable novice makers to reflect on their learning and share their ideas and resources with larger creative communities. In several studies we iterated on the design of portfolio formats to support computational communication alongside students’ electronic textile productions.
Contributors
Deborah Fields, Debora Lui, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Mia Shaw, Justice Walker
Related Research
Lui, D., Walker, J. T., Hana, S., Kafai, Y. B., Fields, D. A., & Jayathirtha, G. (2020). Communicating computational concepts and practices within high school students’ portfolios of making electronic textiles. Interactive Learning Environments, 28(3), 284-301. Link to free access
Fields, D. A., & Kafai, Y. B. (2019). Student maker portfolios: Promoting computational communication and reflection in crafting e-textiles. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Creativity and Fabrication in Education (FabLearn ’19). New York, NY: ACM.
Shaw, M. S., Fields, D. A., & Kafai, Y. B. (2019). Connecting with Computer Science: Electronic Textile Portfolios as Ideational Identity Resources for High School Students. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 21(3), 22-41. Link to PDF
Fields, D. A., Shaw, M. S., & Kafai, Y. B. (2018). Personal learning journeys: Reflective portfolios as “objects-to-learn-with” in an e-textiles high school class. In V. Dagiene & E.Jastuė (Eds.), Constructionism 2018: Constructionism, Computational Thinking and Educational Innovation: Conference proceedings, Vilnius, Lithuania, pp. 213-223. ISBN 978-609-95760-1-5. Link to PDF
Lui, D., Jayathirtha, G., Fields, D. A., Shaw, M., & Kafai, Y. B. (2018). Design considerations for capturing computational thinking practices in high school students’ electronic textile portfolios. In J. Kay and R. Luckin (Eds.), Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age: Making the Learning Sciences Count, 13th International Conference of the Learning, International Society of the Learning Sciences, 721-728. Link to PDF