Yasmin B. Kafai

According to our database, Yasmin B. Kafai authored at least 172 papers between 1994 and 2024.

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2024

Twenty Constructionist Things to Do with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Luis Morales-Navarro

CoRR, 2024

Understanding Growth Mindset Practices in an Introductory Physical Computing Classroom: High School Students' Engagement with Debugging by Design Activities.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

CoRR, 2024

Not Just Training, Also Testing: High School Youths' Perspective-Taking through Peer Testing Machine Learning-Powered Applications.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Meghan Shah, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

Failure Artifact Scenarios to Understand High School Students' Growth in Troubleshooting Physical Computing Projects.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, Deepali Barapatre, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

Enduring Lessons from 'Computer Science for All' for AI Education in Schools.

Shuchi Grover, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Shana White, Carla Strickland

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

2023

Not Just Training, Also Testing: High School Youths' Perspective-Taking through Peer Testing Machine Learning-Powered Applications.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Mia S. Shah, Yasmin B. Kafai

CoRR, 2023

Connecting Beliefs, Mindsets, Anxiety, and Self-Efficacy in Computer Science Learning: An Instrument for Capturing Secondary School Students' Self-Beliefs.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Michael T. Giang, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

CoRR, 2023

Making Sense of Machine Learning: Integrating Youth's Conceptual, Creative, and Critical Understandings of AI.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai, Francisco Enrique Vicente Castro, William Christopher Payne, Kayla DesPortes, Daniella DiPaola, Randi Williams, Safinah Ali, Cynthia Breazeal, Clifford H. Lee, Elisabeth Soep, Duri Long, Brian Magerko, Jaemarie Solyst, Amy Ogan, Cansu Tatar, Shiyan Jiang, Jie Chao, Carolyn P. Rosé, Sepehr Vakil

CoRR, 2023

Designing Bugs or Doing Another Project: Effects on Secondary Students' Self-Beliefs in Computer Science.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, Michael T. Giang, Yasmin B. Kafai

CoRR, 2023

Conceptualizing Approaches to Critical Computing Education: Inquiry, Design and Reimagination.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai

CoRR, 2023

Empowering the Next Generation of Computational Thinkers.

Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Global Computing Education Vol 1, 2023

Conceptualizing Approaches to Critical Computing Education: Inquiry, Design, and Reimagination.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Past, 2023

2022

Correction to: Computational Thinking as a Social Movement.

Anders I. Mørch, Yasmin B. Kafai

Künstliche Intell., 2022

Computational Thinking as a Social Movement.

Anders I. Mørch, Yasmin B. Kafai

Künstliche Intell., 2022

Survey: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Thinking and Learning.

Nina Bonderup Dohn, Yasmin B. Kafai, Anders I. Mørch, Marco Ragni

Künstliche Intell., 2022

Connected civic gaming: rethinking the role of video games in civic education.

Gideon Dishon, Yasmin B. Kafai

Interact. Learn. Environ., 2022

Advancing Opportunities for CS Teachers: How To Best Support Professional Development for Experienced Teachers in K-12 CS Education.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Joanna Goode, Bryan Twarek, Deborah A. Fields, Aman Yadav, Linnea Logan

Proceedings of the SIGCSE 2022: The 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2022

Creative Entrances to Co-Design: Exploring Collaboration through Fiction, Fairy tales, and Games.

Sarah Rüller, María Belén Giménez Ciciolli, Anne Weibert, Konstantin Aal, Mark Blythe, Michael J. Muller, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the PDC 2022: Participatory Design Conference 2022, Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom, 19 August 2022, 2022

Is Computational Empowerment Promoted in the Hour of Code? Analyzing Opportunities for Conceptual, Creative, and Critical Engagement in the Design of Introductory Computing Activities.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai, Katherine T. Gregory

Proceedings of the Koli Calling '22: 22nd Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 2022

Reimagining and Co-designing with Youth an Hour of Code Activity for Critical Engagement with Computing.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Naomi Thompson, Yasmin B. Kafai, Mia S. Shaw, Nichole Pinkard

Proceedings of the IDC '22: Interaction Design and Children, Braga, Portugal, June 27, 2022

2021

Examining the materiality and spatiality of design scaffolds in computational making.

Breanne K. Litts, Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai, Whitney Lewis

Int. J. Child Comput. Interact., 2021

Communicating about computational thinking: understanding affordances of portfolios for assessing high school students' computational thinking and participation practices.

Deborah A. Fields, Debora Lui, Yasmin B. Kafai, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Justice T. Walker, Mia S. Shaw

Comput. Sci. Educ., 2021

The biodesign studio: Constructions and reflections of high school youth on making with living media.

Justice T. Walker, Yasmin B. Kafai

Br. J. Educ. Technol., 2021

Computing for all?: Examining critical biases in computational tools for learning.

Breanne K. Litts, Kristin A. Searle, Bryan M. J. Brayboy, Yasmin B. Kafai

Br. J. Educ. Technol., 2021

Debugging by design: A constructionist approach to high school students' crafting and coding of electronic textiles as failure artefacts.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Luis Morales-Navarro, Justice T. Walker

Br. J. Educ. Technol., 2021

Investigating Creative and Critical Engagement with Computing in the Hour of Code (Practical Report).

Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Mia S. Shaw

Proceedings of the WiPSCE '21: The 16th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, 2021

Promoting socio-political identification with computer science: How high school youth restory their identities through electronic textile quilts.

Mia S. Shaw, GaYeon Ji, Yi Zhang, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, 2021

Program Comprehension with Physical Computing: A Structure, Function, and Behavior Analysis of Think-Alouds with High School Students.

Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the ITiCSE '21: Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V.1, Virtual Event, Germany, June 26, 2021

Notional Machines in a Semester-long Introductory Physical Computing High School Unit.

Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the ICER 2021: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2021

Designing the Virtual SPIKEY-20 Epidemic: Engaging Youth in Seeking Information and Using Personal Protection.

Amanda Strawhacker, Yasmin B. Kafai, Michael T. Giang, Deborah A. Fields, Colby Tofel-Grehl

Proceedings of the IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children, 2021

CodeQuilt: Designing an Hour of Code Activity for Creative and Critical Engagement with Computing.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Mia S. Shaw, Luis Morales-Navarro

Proceedings of the IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children, 2021

2020

Interactive Stitch Sampler: A Synthesis of a Decade of Research on Using Electronic Textiles to Answer the Who, Where, How, and What for K-12 Computer Science Education.

Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai

ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., 2020

From theory bias to theory dialogue: embracing cognitive, situated, and critical framings of computational thinking in K-12 CS education.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Chris Proctor, Debora Lui

Inroads, 2020

Communicating computational concepts and practices within high school students' portfolios of making electronic textiles.

Debora Lui, Justice T. Walker, Sheri Hanna, Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Gayithri Jayathirtha

Interact. Learn. Environ., 2020

Leveraging local resources and contexts for inclusive computer science classrooms: Reflections from experienced high school teachers implementing electronic textiles.

Mia S. Shaw, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Comput. Sci. Educ., 2020

Pair physical computing: high school students' practices and perceptions of collaborative coding and crafting with electronic textiles.

Debora Lui, Yasmin B. Kafai, Breanne K. Litts, Justice T. Walker, Sari Widman

Comput. Sci. Educ., 2020

Computer-Aided Personalized Education.

Rajeev Alur, Richard G. Baraniuk, Rastislav Bodík, Ann W. Drobnis, Sumit Gulwani, Bjoern Hartmann, Yasmin B. Kafai, Jeff Karpicke, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Debra J. Richardson, Armando Solar-Lezama, Candace Thille, Moshe Y. Vardi

CoRR, 2020

Making more of games: Cultivating perspective-taking through game design.

Gideon Dishon, Yasmin B. Kafai

Comput. Educ., 2020

Looking Ahead: Professional Development Needs for Experienced CS Teachers.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Jake Baskin, Deborah A. Fields, Joanna Goode, Bryan Twarek, Aman Yadav

Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2020

Charting the Identity Turn in K-12 Computer Science Education: Developing More Inclusive Learning Pathways for Identities.

Mia S. Shaw, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Interdisciplinarity in the Learning Sciences: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2020

Turning Bugs into Learning Opportunities: Understanding Debugging Processes, Perspectives, and Pedagogies.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Gautam Biswas, Nicole Hutchins, Caitlin Snyder, Karen Brennan, Paulina Haduong, Kayla DesPortes, Morgan Fong, Virginia J. Flood, Oia Walker-van Aalst, David DeLiema, Deborah A. Fields, Melissa S. Gresalfi, Corey E. Brady, Selena Steinberg, Madison Knowe, Diana Franklin, Merijke Coenraad, David Weintrop, Donna Eatinger, Jen Palmer, Michelle Hoda Wilkerson, Collette Roberto, Nicole Bulalacao, Joshua A. Danish

Proceedings of the Interdisciplinarity in the Learning Sciences: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2020

Pair Debugging of Electronic Textiles Projects: Analyzing Think-Aloud Protocols for High School Students' Strategies and Practices While Problem Solving.

Gayithri Jayathirtha, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Interdisciplinarity in the Learning Sciences: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2020

Tools for Biomakers: Reviewing Affordances and Challenges for K-12 Hands-On Making with Biology.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Justice T. Walker

Proceedings of the FabLearn '20: FabLearn 2020 - 9th Annual Conference on Maker Education, New York, NY, USA, April 4, 2020

When a Glove Becomes a Gun: From Personally Meaningful to Socially Critical Restorying in Maker Activities.

Gayithri Jayathirtha, Mia S. Shaw, Yasmin B. Kafai, Debora A. Lui

Proceedings of the FabLearn '20: FabLearn 2020 - 9th Annual Conference on Maker Education, New York, NY, USA, April 4, 2020

A Redesigned Reconstruction Kit for Rapid Collaborative Debugging and Designing of E-Textiles.

Deborah A. Fields, Yuhan Lin, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the FabLearn '20: FabLearn 2020 - 9th Annual Conference on Maker Education, New York, NY, USA, April 4, 2020

2019

Stitching the Loop with Electronic Textiles: Promoting Equity in High School Students' Competencies and Perceptions of Computer Science.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Debora A. Lui, Justice T. Walker, Mia S. Shaw, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Tomoko M. Nakajima, Joanna Goode, Michael T. Giang

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019

Rethinking Debugging as Productive Failure for CS Education.

Yasmin B. Kafai, David DeLiema, Deborah A. Fields, Gary Lewandowski, Colleen M. Lewis

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019

Collaborative Coding and Composing of JazzHands: Integrating the Learning of Advanced Computational Concepts with Electronic Textiles to Make Music Wearables.

Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai, Debora A. Lui, Mia S. Shaw, Ji Yong Cho

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019

Electronic Textiles in Computer Science Education: A Synthesis of Efforts to Broaden Participation, Increase Interest, and Deepen Learning.

Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019

A Revaluation of How We Think about Making: Examining Assembly Practices and Artifact Imagination in Biomaking.

Debora Lui, Yasmin B. Kafai, Justice T. Walker, Sheri Hanna, Karen Hogan, Orkan Telhan

Proceedings of FabLearn 2019, New York, NY, USA, March 09-10, 2019, 2019

Student Maker Portfolios: Promoting Computational Communication and Reflection in Crafting E-Textiles.

Debora Lui, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of FabLearn 2019, New York, NY, USA, March 09-10, 2019, 2019

A Scaled Analysis of How Minecraft Gamers Leverage YouTube Comment Boxes to Participate and Collaborate.

Justice T. Walker, Stefan Slater, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2019

Arguing about Synthetic Biology in 140 Characters or Less: Affordances of Microblogging for High School Students Discussions of Socioscientific Issues.

Mia S. Shaw, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2019

Bugs as a Nexus for Emergent Peer Collaborations: Contextual and Classroom Supports for Solving Problems in Electronic Textiles.

Deborah A. Fields, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2019

Personal Embodiment, Social Enactment: Collaborative Learning With Body Technology.

Deborah A. Fields, Cynthia Carter Ching, Victor R. Lee, Breanne K. Litts, Chase K. Mortensen, Joshua A. Danish, Megan Humburg, Bria Davis, Xintian Tu, Debora Lui, Mia S. Shaw, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai, Lindsay Lindberg, Robb Lindgren, James Planey, Jason Morphew, Katie Headrick Taylor, Adam Bell, Erin Riesland, Maria Hays, Deborah Silvis, Ilana Dubovi, Noel Enyedy, Rogers Hall

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2019

2018

Constructionist visions: Hard fun with serious games.

Yasmin B. Kafai

Int. J. Child Comput. Interact., 2018

Biohacking Food: A Case Study of Science Inquiry and Design Reflections about a Synthetic Biology High School Workshop.

Justice Toshiba Walker, Mia S. Shaw, Yasmin B. Kafai, Debora Lui

Proceedings of the Rethinking learning in the digital age: Making the Learning Sciences count, 2018

The State of the Field in Computational Thinking Assessment.

Mike Tissenbaum, Josh Sheldon, Mark A. Sherman, Hal Abelson, David Weintrop, Kemi Jona, Mike S. Horn, Uri Wilensky, Satabdi Basu, Daisy Rutstein, Eric Snow, Linda Shear, Shuchi Grover, Irene A. Lee, Eric Klopfer, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Mia S. Shaw, Yasmin B. Kafai, Eni Mustafaraj, Will Temple, R. Benjamin Shapiro, Debora Lui, Clara Sorensen

Proceedings of the Rethinking learning in the digital age: Making the Learning Sciences count, 2018

Cultural Repertoires: Indigenous youth creating with place and story.

Kristin A. Searle, Teresa Casort, Breanne K. Litts, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Sequoia Lynn Dance, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Rethinking learning in the digital age: Making the Learning Sciences count, 2018

Design Considerations for Capturing Computational Thinking Practices in High School Students' Electronic Textile Portfolios.

Debora Lui, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Deborah A. Fields, Mia S. Shaw, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Rethinking learning in the digital age: Making the Learning Sciences count, 2018

Affordances of Digital, Textile and Living Media for Designing and Learning Biology in K-12 Education.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Mike S. Horn, Joshua A. Danish, Megan Humburg, Xintian Tu, Bria Davis, Chris Georgen, Noel Enyedy, Paulo Blikstein, Tamara L. Clegg, Virginia L. Byrne, Leyla Norooz, Seokbin Kang, Jon Froehlich, Justice Toshiba Walker, Debora Lui, Emma Anderson, Engin Bumbacher, Peter Washington, Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse

Proceedings of the Rethinking learning in the digital age: Making the Learning Sciences count, 2018

Sustaining girls' participation in STEM, gaming and making.

Eva-Sophie Katterfeldt, Nadine Dittert, Heidi Schelhowe, Yasmin B. Kafai, Letizia Jaccheri, Javier Gomez Escribano

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2018

2017

Youth Computational Participation in the Wild: Understanding Experience and Equity in Participating and Programming in the Online Scratch Community.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Michael T. Giang

ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., 2017

Connected Gaming: An Inclusive Perspective for Serious Gaming.

Yasmin B. Kafai

Int. J. Serious Games, 2017

Understanding High School Students' Reading, Remixing, and Writing Codeable Circuits for Electronic Textiles.

Breanne K. Litts, Yasmin B. Kafai, Debora Lui, Justice T. Walker, Sari Widman

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2017

Plagues and people: engineering player participation and prevention in a virtual epidemic.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Michael T. Giang, Nina H. Fefferman, Jacqueline Wong

Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2017

The gender and race of pixels: an exploration of intersectional identity representation and construction within minecraft and its community.

Emma Anderson, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin B. Kafai, Debora Lui

Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2017

Learning by Fixing and Designing Problems: A Reconstruction Kit for Debugging E-Textiles.

Debora Lui, Emma Anderson, Yasmin B. Kafai, Gayithri Jayathirtha

Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Creativity and Fabrication in Education, 2017

Teaching Practices for Making E-Textiles in High School Computing Classrooms.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Tomoko M. Nakajima, Joanna Goode

Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Creativity and Fabrication in Education, 2017

Reflections on Pair E-Crafting: High School Students' Approaches to Collaboration in Electronic Textiles Projects.

Breanne K. Litts, Debora A. Lui, Sari Widman, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2017

Libraries as Emerging Spaces for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Schools and Communities.

Victor R. Lee, Carrie Tzou, Megan Bang, Philip Bell, Shelley Stromholt, Nancy Price, Meixi Ng, Yasmin B. Kafai, Orkan Telhan, Richard Lee Davis, K-Fai Steele, Barrie M. Adleberg, Jennifer Kahn, Rogers Hall, Abigail Leigh Phillips, Jennifer Hansen, Mimi Recker, Brigid Barron

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2017

Growing Designs with biomakerlab in High School Classrooms.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Orkan Telhan, Karen Hogan, Debora Lui, Emma Anderson, Justice T. Walker, Sheri Hanna

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2017

Designing for Massive Engagement in a Tween Community: Participation, Prevention, and Philanthropy in a Virtual Epidemic.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Michael T. Giang, Nina H. Fefferman, Jen Sun, Daniel Kunka, Jacqueline Wong

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2017

Computational Participation: Teaching Kids to Create and Connect Through Code.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Quinn Burke

Proceedings of the Emerging Research, Practice, and Policy on Computational Thinking., 2017

2016

From computational thinking to computational participation in K-12 education.

Yasmin B. Kafai

Commun. ACM, 2016

Perceptions of Productive Failure in Design Projects: High School Students' Challenges in Making Electronic Textiles.

Breanne K. Litts, Yasmin B. Kafai, Kristin A. Searle, Emily Dieckmeyer

Proceedings of the Transforming Learning, 2016

Connected Making: Designing for Youth Learning in Online Maker Communities In and Out of Schools.

Breanne K. Litts, Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Erica Halverson, Kylie Peppler, Anna Keune, Mike Tissenbaum, Sara M. Grimes, Stephanie Chang, Lisa Regalla, Orkan Telhan, Michael Tan

Proceedings of the Transforming Learning, 2016

Collaborative Maker Activities in the Classroom: Case Studies of High School Student Pairs' Interactions in Designing Electronic Textiles.

Debora Lui, Breanne K. Litts, Sari Widman, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Creativity and Fabrication in Education, 2016

Deconstruction Kits for Learning: Students' Collaborative Debugging of Electronic Textile Designs.

Deborah A. Fields, Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Creativity and Fabrication in Education, 2016

Blind Spots in Youth DIY Programming: Examining Diversity in Creators, Content, and Comments within the Scratch Online Community.

Gabriela T. Richard, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016

2015

The programmers' collective: fostering participatory culture by making music videos in a high school Scratch coding workshop.

Deborah A. Fields, Veena Vasudevan, Yasmin B. Kafai

Interact. Learn. Environ., 2015

Constructionist Gaming Beyond the Screen: Middle School Students' Crafting and Computing of Touchpads, Board Games, and Controllers.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Veena Vasudevan

Proceedings of the Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, 2015

StitchFest: Diversifying a College Hackathon to Broaden Participation and Perceptions in Computing.

Gabriela T. Richard, Yasmin B. Kafai, Barrie M. Adleberg, Orkan Telhan

Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2015

"Maker Innovators": A Workshop for Youth Creating Responsive and Wearable Game Interfaces with Tangible and Digital Construction Toolkits (Abstract Only).

Gabriela T. Richard, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2015

Boys' Needlework: Understanding Gendered and Indigenous Perspectives on Computing and Crafting with Electronic Textiles.

Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the eleventh annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2015

Culturally Responsive Making with American Indian Girls: Bridging the Identity Gap in Crafting and Computing with Electronic Textiles.

Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Third Conference on GenderIT, 2015

Make, wear, play: remix designs of wearable controllers for scratch games by middle school youth.

Veena Vasudevan, Yasmin B. Kafai, Lei Yang

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2015

Making physical and digital games with e-textiles: a workshop for youth making responsive wearable games and controllers.

Gabriela T. Richard, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2015

Hi-Lo tech games: crafting, coding and collaboration of augmented board games by high school youth.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Veena Vasudevan

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2015

"I have a tutorial for this": the language of online peer support in the scratch programming community.

Deborah A. Fields, Katarina Pantic, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2015

2014

A Crafts-Oriented Approach to Computing in High School: Introducing Computational Concepts, Practices, and Perspectives with Electronic Textiles.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Eunkyoung Lee, Kristin A. Searle, Deborah A. Fields, Eliot Kaplan, Debora Lui

ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., 2014

Programming in the wild: trends in youth computational participation in the online scratch community.

Deborah A. Fields, Michael T. Giang, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 9th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, 2014

Ethnocomputing with electronic textiles: culturally responsive open design to broaden participation in computing in American indian youth and communities.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Kristin A. Searle, Cristóbal Martinez, Bryan M. J. Brayboy

Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2014

Motivating and Broadening Participation: Competitions, Contests, Challenges, and Circles for Supporting STEM Learning.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Natalie Rusk, Quinn Burke, Chad Mote, Kylie Peppler, Deborah A. Fields, Ricarose Roque, Orkan Telhan, Karen Elinich, Alecia Marie Magnifico

Proceedings of the Learning and Becoming in Practice: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2014

Connected Gaming: Towards Integrating Instructionist and Constructionist Approaches in K-12 Gaming.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Quinn Burke

Proceedings of the Learning and Becoming in Practice: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2014

Combining Video Games and Constructionist Design to Support Deep Learning in Play.

Nathan R. Holbert, David Weintrop, Uri Wilensky, Pratim Sengupta, Stephen S. Killingsworth, Kara Krinks, Douglas B. Clark, Corey E. Brady, Eric Klopfer, R. Benjamin Shapiro, Rosemary S. Russ, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Learning and Becoming in Practice: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2014

The Programmers' Collective: Connecting Collaboration and Computation in a High School Scratch Mashup Coding Workshop.

Deborah A. Fields, Veena Vasudevan, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Learning and Becoming in Practice: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2014

Diversifying high school students' views about computing with electronic textiles.

Kristin A. Searle, Deborah A. Fields, Debora A. Lui, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the International Computing Education Research Conference, 2014

Novice Programmers Talking about Projects: What Automated Text Analysis Reveals about Online Scratch Users' Comments.

Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Deborah A. Fields, David Olsen, Taylor Martin, Mark C. Shepherd, Anna Strommer, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2014

Connected messages: a maker approach to interactive community murals with youth.

Orkan Telhan, Yasmin B. Kafai, Richard Lee Davis, K-Fai Steele, Barrie M. Adleberg

Proceedings of the IDC '14, 2014

2013

Cupcake cushions, scooby doo shirts, and soft boomboxes: e-textiles in high school to promote computational concepts, practices, and perceptions.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Kristin A. Searle, Eliot Kaplan, Deborah A. Fields, Eunkyoung Lee, Debora Lui

Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2013

A cascading mentoring pedagogy in a CS service learning course to broaden participation and perceptions.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Jean Griffin, Quinn Burke, Michelle Slattery, Deborah A. Fields, Rita Manco Powell, Michele Grab, Susan B. Davidson, Joseph S. Sun

Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2013

The social turn in K-12 programming: moving from computational thinking to computational participation.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Quinn Burke

Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2013

Understanding Collaborative Practices in the Scratch Online Community: Patterns of Participation Among Youth Designers.

Deborah A. Fields, Michael T. Giang, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2013

The education arcade: crafting, remixing, and playing with controllers for Scratch games.

Richard Lee Davis, Yasmin B. Kafai, Veena Vasudevan, Eunkyoung Lee

Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children 2013, 2013

2012

Beyond Freedom of Movement: Boys Play in a Tween Virtual World.

Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai

Games Cult., 2012

Debuggems to assess student learning in e-textiles (abstract only).

Deborah A. Fields, Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai, Hannah S. Min

Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, 2012

The reflective mentor: charting undergraduates' responses to computer science service learning (abstract only).

Quinn Burke, Yasmin B. Kafai, Jean Griffin, Rita Manco Powell, Michele Grab, Susan B. Davidson, Joseph S. Sun

Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, 2012

The writers' workshop for youth programmers: digital storytelling with scratch in middle school classrooms.

Quinn Burke, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, 2012

Connecting play: understanding multimodal participation in virtual worlds.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields

Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2012

Making Technology Visible: Connecting the Learning of Crafts, Circuitry and Coding in Etextiles by Youth Designers.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Kristin A. Searle

Proceedings of the Future of Learning: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2012

Functional Aesthetics for Learning: Creative Tensions in Youth e-Textile Designs.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Kristin A. Searle

Proceedings of the Future of Learning: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2012

From tools to communities: designs to support online creative collaboration in scratch.

Ricarose Roque, Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2012

What makes competitions fun to participate?: the role of audience for middle school game designers.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Quinn Burke, Chad Mote

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2012

2011

Beyond Small Groups: New Opportunities for Research in Computer-Supported Collective Learning.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Kylie Peppler

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2011

The Role of Different Narratives in Recognizing Peer Expertise in Collaborative Programming Projects.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2011

Crafting Identities: E-Textile Artifacts as Mediators in High Tech Communities.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2011

Articulating creativity in a new domain: expert insights from the field of e-textiles.

Kylie A. Peppler, Diane Glosson, Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Kristin A. Searle

Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Creativity & Cognition, 2011

Everyday creativity in novice e-textile designs.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Kristin A. Searle

Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Creativity & Cognition, 2011

2010

Entering the Clubhouse: Case Studies of Young Programmers Joining the Online Scratch Communities.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, William Q. Burke

J. Organ. End User Comput., 2010

Multi-Modal Investigations of Relationship Play in Virtual Worlds.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Kristin A. Searle

Int. J. Gaming Comput. Mediat. Simulations, 2010

Investigating the "Why" in Whypox: Casual and Systematic Explorations of a Virtual Epidemic.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Maria Quintero, David F. Feldon

Games Cult., 2010

Your Second Selves: Player-Designed Avatars.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Melissa S. Cook

Games Cult., 2010

''Blacks Deserve Bodies Too!'': Design and Discussion About Diversity and Race in a Tween Virtual World.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Melissa S. Cook, Deborah A. Fields

Games Cult., 2010

World of Whyville: An Introduction to Tween Virtual Life.

Yasmin B. Kafai

Games Cult., 2010

Knowing and Throwing Mudballs, Hearts, Pies, and Flowers: A Connective Ethnography of Gaming Practices.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Games Cult., 2010

''Stealing From Grandma'' or Generating Cultural Knowledge?: Contestations and Effects of Cheating in a Tween Virtual World.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Games Cult., 2010

Fröbel's forgotten gift: textile construction kits as pathways into play, design and computation.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Kylie A. Peppler, Quinn Burke, Michael Moore, Diane Glosson

Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children, 2010

Programming & storytelling: opportunities for learning about coding & composition.

Quinn Burke, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children, 2010

2009

A connective ethnography of peer knowledge sharing and diffusion in a tween virtual world.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Int. J. Comput. Support. Collab. Learn., 2009

Scratch: programming for all.

Mitchel Resnick, John H. Maloney, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Natalie Rusk, Evelyn Eastmond, Karen Brennan, Amon Millner, Eric Rosenbaum, Jay S. Silver, Brian Silverman, Yasmin B. Kafai

Commun. ACM, 2009

Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: new perspectives on girls and games.

Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games, 2009

Boys' Play in the Fourth Space: Freedom of Movements in a Tween Virtual World.

Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 2009 DiGRA International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, 2009

Transgressive Gender Play: Profiles and Portraits of Girl Players in a Tween Virtual World.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Michael T. Giang

Proceedings of the 2009 DiGRA International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, 2009

What Videogame Making Can Teach Us About Access and Ethics in Participatory Culture.

Yasmin B. Kafai, William Q. Burke, Deborah A. Fields

Proceedings of the 2009 DiGRA International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, 2009

From outcast to expert: identities as a conceptual lens for studying learning through design across spaces.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2009

2008

Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with scratch.

John H. Maloney, Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai, Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk

Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2008

Developing a design culture in a computer clubhouse: the role of local practices and mediators.

Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Cre8ing a learning world: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference for the Learning Sciences, 2008

New literacies and the learning sciences: a framework for understanding youths' media arts practices.

Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Cre8ing a learning world: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference for the Learning Sciences, 2008

Media designs with scratch: what urban youth can learn about programming in a computer Clubhouse.

John H. Maloney, Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk, Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Cre8ing a learning world: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference for the Learning Sciences, 2008

Real arguments about a virtual epidemic: conversations and contestations in a tween gaming club.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Jacqueline Wong

Proceedings of the Cre8ing a learning world: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference for the Learning Sciences, 2008

Learning from Krumping: collective agency in dance performance cultures.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Kylie A. Peppler

Proceedings of the Cre8ing a learning world: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference for the Learning Sciences, 2008

Considering gender in digital games: implications for serious game designs in the learning sciences.

Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Cre8ing a learning world: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference for the Learning Sciences, 2008

New perspectives on learning through (game) design.

Elisabeth R. Hayes, James Paul Gee, Ivan Alex Games, Robert J. Torres, Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai, Nichole Pinkard, Eric Klopfer, Hal Scheintaub, Maryanna Rogers, Karin Forssell, Caitlin Kennedy Martin, Brigid Barron, Wanda Eugene, Shaundra B. Daily, Ugochi Acholonu, Lori M. Takeuchi, Sarah E. Walter, Kristen Briggs

Proceedings of the Cre8ing a learning world: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference for the Learning Sciences, 2008

Youth as media art designers: workshops for creative coding.

Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2008

2007

What Videogame Making Can Teach Us About Literacy and Learning: Alternative Pathways into Participatory Culture.

Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 2007 DiGRA International Conference: Situated Play, 2007

Your Second Selves: Resources, Agency, and Constraints in Avatar Designs and Identity Play in a Tween Virtual World.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Melissa S. Cook

Proceedings of the 2007 DiGRA International Conference: Situated Play, 2007

"Blacks Deserve Bodies Too!" Design and Discussion about Diversity and Race in a Tween Online World.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Melissa S. Cook, Deborah A. Fields

Proceedings of the 2007 DiGRA International Conference: Situated Play, 2007

Stealing from Grandma or Generating Cultural Knowledge? Contestations and Effects of Cheats in a Tween Virtual World.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 2007 DiGRA International Conference: Situated Play, 2007

Collaboration, computation, and creativity: media arts practices in urban youth culture.

Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 7th Iternational Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2007

Tracing insider knowledge across time and spaces: a connective ethnography in a teen online game world.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 7th Iternational Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2007

Illegitimate practices as legitimate participation: game cheat sites in a teen virtual world.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 7th Iternational Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2007

2006

Playing and Making Games for Learning: Instructionist and Constructionist Perspectives for Game Studies.

Yasmin B. Kafai

Games Cult., 2006

Creative Codings: Investigating Cultural, Personal, and Epistemological Connections in Media Arts Programming.

Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Making a Difference...: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference for the Learning Sciences, 2006

Seeds of a Computer Culture: An Archival Analysis of Programming Artifacts from a Community Technology Center.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Kylie A. Peppler, Mabel Alavez, Omar Ruvalcaba

Proceedings of the Making a Difference...: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference for the Learning Sciences, 2006

Clubs, Homes, and Online Communities as Contexts for Engaging Youth in Technological Fluency Building Activities.

Brigid Barron, Yasmin B. Kafai, Diana M. Joseph, Nichole Pinkard, Mitchel Resnick, Caitlin Martin, Colin Schatz, R. Benjamin Shapiro, Amon Millner, Kylie Peppler, Grace Chiu, Shiu Desai

Proceedings of the Making a Difference...: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference for the Learning Sciences, 2006

2005

What happens if you catch Whypox? Children's learning experiences of infectious disease in a multi-user virtual environment.

Nina Neulight, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Conference 2005, 2005

"A Totally Different World": Playing and Learning in Multi-User Virtual Environments.

Linda Kao, Cathleen Galas, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Conference 2005, 2005

2004

Scratch: A Sneak Preview.

John H. Maloney, Leo Burd, Yasmin B. Kafai, Natalie Rusk, Brian Silverman, Mitchel Resnick

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Creating, 2004

2003

Children designing software for children: what can we learn?

Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children, 2003

2002

Elementary students' perceptions of social networks: development, experience, and equity in collaborative software design activities.

Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning: Foundations for a CSCL Community, 2002

2000

Application of Dublin Core metadata in the description of digital primary sources in elementary school classrooms.

Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, Yasmin B. Kafai, William E. Landis

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 2000

Different Perspectives of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: The Case of the Software Design Project.

Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Vernetztes Lernen mit digitalen Medien, 2000

1998

Game Design as an Interactive Learning Environment for Fostering Students' and Teachers' Mathematical Inquiry.

Yasmin B. Kafai, M. L. Franke, Cynthia Carter Ching, J. C. Shih

Int. J. Comput. Math. Learn., 1998

1997

Children as designers of educational multimedia software.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Cynthia Carter Ching, Sue K. Marshall

Comput. Educ., 1997

The implications of a theory of play for the design of computer toys (panel).

Bill Kolomyjec, Justine Cassell, Yasmin B. Kafai, Mary Williamson

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 1997

1996

Software by Kids for Kids.

Yasmin B. Kafai

Commun. ACM, 1996

Learning Through Artifacts: Communities of Practice in Classrooms.

Yasmin B. Kafai

AI Soc., 1996

Meaningful Contexts for Mathematical Learning: The Potential of Game Making.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Cynthia Carter Ching

Proceedings of the Learning for the Real World: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Learning Sciences, 1996

1995

Multimedia and Education: Magic, Myth or Miracle Cure? (Panel).

Rachelle S. Heller, Derek Kinnen, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Third ACM International Conference on Multimedia '95, 1995

Learner-Centered System Design: HCI Perspective for the Future.

Mark Guzdial, Yasmin B. Kafai, John M. Carroll, Gerhard Fischer, Roger C. Schank, Elliot Soloway, Ben Shneiderman

Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, 1995

1994

Computational Gifts for the Barney Generation.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Elliot Soloway

Commun. ACM, 1994