Stitching the Loop
Between 2016 and 2019 we worked together with dozens of high school teachers and hundreds of students in implementing and revising classroom activities in which students design and craft a series of individual and collaborative electronic textiles projects learning about key concepts in crafting, circuit design and computing. Called Stitching the Loop, the unit is situated within the larger framework of the year-long Exploring Computer Science curriculum using an equity- and inquiry-oriented pedagogy.
Contributors
Deborah Fields, Joanna Goode, Jane Margolis, Michael Giang, Debora Lui, Tomoko Nakashima, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Justice Walker
Related Research
Fields, D. A., & Kafai, Y. B. (2020). Hard Fun with Hands-on Computing Activities in the Classroom. In S. Grover (Ed.), Introductory Programming for K-12 teachers. In S. Grover (Ed.), Computer Science in K-12: An A to Z Handbook on Teaching Programming (pp. 75-82). Palo Alto, CA: Edfinity.
Kafai, Y. B., Fields, D. A., Lui, D. A., Walker, J. T., Shaw, M. S., Jayathirtha, G., Nakajima, T. M., Goode, J., & Giang, M. T. (2019). Stitching the Loop with Electronic Textiles: Promoting Equity in High School Students' Competencies and Perceptions of Computer Science. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '19) (pp. 1176-1182). New York, NY: ACM. Link to PDF
Kafai, Y. B., & Fields, D. A.(2018). Some reflections on designing constructionist activities for classrooms. In V. Dagiene & E. Jastuė (Eds.), Constructionism 2018: Constructionism, Computational Thinking and Educational Innovation: conference proceedings, Vilnius, Lithuania, pp. 606-612. ISBN 978-609-95760-1-5. Link to PDF