Scratch Online
In 2010, the MIT Media Laboratory (PI Mitchel Resnick), University of Pennsylvania (coPI Yasmin Kafai) and Harvard University (coPI Yochai Benkler proposed to understand collaboration, cooperation, and learning in the context of the Scratch online community with over 400,000 registered members discussing, remixing, and reusing more than a million projects.
Contributors
Deborah Fields, Michael Giang, Katarina Pantic, Gabriela T. Richard, Velasquez, Bianca
Related Research
Fields, D. A., Kafai, Y. B., & Giang, M. T. (2017). Youth computational participation in the online Scratch community: Problematizing experience and equity in participation and programming. Transactions of Computing Education, 17(3), Article 15. Link to PDF
Fields, D. A., Giang, M., & Kafai, Y. B (2016). Coding by Choice: A Transitional Analysis of Social Participation Patterns and Programming Contributions in the Online Scratch Community. In U. Cress, J. Moskaliuk, & H. Jeong (Eds.), Mass Collaboration and Education (pp. 209-240). New york, NY: Springer Verlag.
Richard, G. & Kafai, Y. B. (2016). Blind Spots in Youth DIY Programming: Examining Diversity in Creators, Content, and Comments within the Scratch Online Community. In Proceedings of the CHI conference (pp. 213-227). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. Link to PDF
Fields, D., Pantic, K., & Kafai, Y. B. (2015). “I have a tutorial for this”: The language of online peer support in the Scratch programming community. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '15) (pp. 229-238). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. Link to PDF
Fields, D., Vasudevan, V., & Kafai, Y.B. (2015). The programmers’ collective: Fostering participatory culture in a high school Scratch mashup coding workshop. Interactive Learning Environments, 23(5), 1-21. Link to free access
Fields, D. A., Giang, M. T., Kafai, Y. B. (2014). Programming in the Wild: Patterns of Computational Participation in the Scratch Online Social Networking Forum. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WiPSCE '14) (pp. 2-11). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. Link to PDF
Forsgren, N. V., Fields, D. A., Olsen, D., Martin, T., Shepherd, M. C., Strommer, A., & Kafai, Y. B. (2014). Novice Programmers Talking about Projects: What Automated Text Analysis Reveals about Online Scratch Users’ Comments. In HICSS’14 Proceedings of the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 1635-1644). New York, NY: ACM. Link to PDF
Fields, D. A., Giang, M., & Kafai, Y. B. (2013). Understanding Collaborative Practices in the Scratch Online Community: Patterns of Participation Among Youth Designers. In Rummel, N., Kapur, M., Nathan, M., & Puntambekar, S. (Eds.), To See the World and a Grain of Sand: Learning across Levels of Space, Time, and Scale: CSCL 2013 Conference Proceedings Volume 1 (pp. 200-207). Madison, WI: International Society of the Learning Sciences. Link to PDF
Kafai, Y. B. & Fields, D. A., Roque, R., Burke, W. Q., & Monroy-Hernandez, A. (2012). Collaborative agency in youth online and offline creative production in Scratch. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 7(2), 63-87. Link to PDF
Roque, R., Kafai, Y. B., & Fields, D., A. (2012). From tools to communities: Designs to support online creative collaboration in scratch. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '12) (pp. 220–223). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. Link to PDF
Fields, D. & Kafai, Y. (2011). The Role of Different Narratives in Recognizing Peer Expertise in Collaborative Programming Projects. In Spada, H., Stahl, G., Miyake, N., & Law, N. (Eds.), CSCL’2011 Conference Proceedings, Volume II (pp. 701-705). Hong Kong, China: International Society of the Learning Sciences. Link to PDF
Kafai, Y. B., Fields, D. A., & Burke, W. Q. (2011). Collaborative agency in youth online creative production in Scratch. In T. Hirashima et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. Link to PDF
Kafai, Y. B., Roque, R., Fields, D. A., & Monroy-Hernandez, A. (2011). Collaboration by choice: Youth online creative collabs in Scratch. In T. Hirashima et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. Link to PDF
Kafai, Y. & Peppler, K. (2011). Beyond Small Groups: New Opportunities for Research in Computer-Supported Collective Learning. In Spada, H., Stahl, G., Miyake, N., & Law, N. (Eds.), CSCL2011 Conference Proceedings. Volume I (pp. 17-24). Hong Kong, China: International Society of the Learning Sciences. Link to PDF