Some reflections on designing construction kits for kids

Proceedings of: Interaction Design and Children 2005, IDC 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 117-122

  Resnick, Mitchel ^a   Silverman, Brian ^b  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b 2075 University Street   (Canada)

Author keywords

Construction kits; Design; Education; Learning; Metadesign

Indexed keywords

BLACK BOXES; CONSTRUCTION KIT; DESIGN EDUCATION; GUIDING PRINCIPLES; LOW-FLOOR; META-DESIGN; NEW TECHNOLOGIES;

DESIGN;

EID: 77952335939     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1109540.1109556     Document Type: Conference Paper

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