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It’s Not Working!: Critical Problems in Emergent Infrastructures of Classroom Physical Computing

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Moments of breakdown in any infrastructure make the often-invisible components visible (Star, 1999).In this paper, we explore how the breakdown of one physical computing system used in middle and high school classrooms (the DaSH) made determinant the sociotechnical infrastructure undergirding it.Using ethnography and situational analysis mapping, we make meaning of two major sources of the issue that became barriers to the system operating in teachers' classrooms: shifting organizational goals & the cloud-based component of the programming environment.Uncovering these sunk components of the computing technologies infrastructure offers insight into what to consider when researching and implementing work with physical computing in K-12 and out of school environments including what large-scale relationships it relies on and how they shape students' relations to computing.

Source: Proceedings.

DOI: 10.22318/icls2024.101720

Authors: Colin Hennessy Elliott, Jessie Nixon, Alexandra Gendreau Chakarov, Michael Schneider, Srinjita Bhaduri

Language: English

Topic: Teaching and Learning Programming

Subfield: Computer Science Applications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, James S. McDonnell Foundation

Awards: AI Institute: Institute for Student-AI Teaming, Collaborative Research: Using a School-Based Sensing Platform and Targeted Teacher Professional Development to Support Computational Thinking Integration and Student Learning, Collaborative Research: Using a School-Based Sensing Platform and Targeted Teacher Professional Development to Support Computational Thinking Integration and Student Learning