Making technology visible: Connecting the learning of crafts, circuitry and coding in youth e-textile designs

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 188-195

  Kafai, Yasmin B ^a   Fields, Deborah A ^a   Searle, Kristin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION KIT; ELECTRONIC TEXTILES; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNS; MAKING TECHNOLOGY; SCIENCE MUSEUM; STUDENT LEARNING;

DESIGN; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TEXTILES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84876236657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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