Author
Van Mechelen, M., Wagner, M.-L., Baykal, Gökçe Elif, Charlotte Smith, R., Iversen, O. S. S.
Publication Date
2021-06-24
Publication Place
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Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Subject
Digital design literacy, Digital literacy, K-9 education, Pioneer teachers
Type
Document
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
978-145038452-0
Record ID
2f2ddcb8-a2f4-496d-9992-bb3b5e0da8be
Library Location
Communication Design
Date
2021-06-24
Sample Text
Based on a comprehensive account of digital design literacy, we report from an interview study with pioneer teachers to disclose their experiences from teaching design in formal K-9 education. Unique for the study is that the interviewees were highly qualified K-9 teachers with research-based in-service training in design and more than three years of teaching experience in the area. Our findings suggest that digital design literacy supports children's agency and empowerment in relation to digital technology. Moreover, digital design literacy provides children with four broad competence areas of effective teamwork, contextual inquiry, imagination and creation, and design process navigation. Our study also demonstrates that digital design literacy does not fit seamlessly within the path of conventional school courses. Several structural barriers in formal education such as summative assessments, teacher-roles, failure-prevention and children's lack of experiences with open-ended assignments are reported and discussed in relation to previous studies in child-computer interaction research.
DOI
10.1145/3459990.3460696
