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ACMIDC
2015
10 years 2 days ago
KIBO robot demo: engaging young children in programming and engineering
Robotics offers a playful and tangible way for young children to engage with technology and engineering concepts during their foundational early childhood years. This paper descri...
Amanda Sullivan, Mollie Elkin, Marina Umaschi Bers
ACMIDC
2015
10 years 2 days ago
Paper mechatronics: a design case study for a young medium
Paper Mechatronics is a novel interdisciplinary design medium for children, enabled by recent advances in craft technologies: the term refers to a reappraisal of traditional educa...
Hyunjoo Oh, Michael Eisenberg, Mark D. Gross, Sher...
ACMIDC
2015
10 years 2 days ago
Touchscreen prompts for preschoolers: designing developmentally appropriate techniques for teaching young children to perform ge
Though toddlers and preschoolers are regular touchscreen users, relatively little is known about how they learn to perform unfamiliar gestures. In this paper we assess the respons...
Alexis Hiniker, Kiley Sobel, Sungsoo Ray Hong, Hye...
ACMIDC
2015
10 years 2 days ago
Colouring the path from instruction to practice: perspectives on software for struggling readers
Mainstream paper and pencil interventions for Anglophone students with dyslexia emphasize a strategy of analyzing syllables to compensate for irregularities in English letter-soun...
Emily S. Cramer, Alissa Nicole Antle, Min Fan
ACMIDC
2015
10 years 2 days ago
ScratchJr demo: a coding language for kindergarten
This paper describes the ScratchJr research project, a collaboration between Tufts University’s Developmental Technologies Research Group, MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group, a...
Amanda Strawhacker, Melissa Lee, Claire Caine, Mar...