Archive

The KIDS archive is an effort to share data collected over the past four years. The goal is to provide researchers, teachers and others access and insight into children's work as software designers for learning.


 

   VIDEO CLIPS

 1991

 

 MINDS IN PLAY (10 min)

This is the companion video to my book Minds in Play: Computer Game Design as a Context for Children's Learning.

 2000

 

GIRLS AND COMPUTERS (2 min)

This video reports about the learning science by design projects conducted as part of the Digital Apprenticeship research program.

 

 

 

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

These are wonderment questions generated by student software designers at the beginning of their projects. All students participate in these class sessions in which the teacher writes questions on butcher paper. A listing of all the questions asked for particular design projects can be found in the files listed below.
   1998 Marine Biology Class 3
   1998 Marine Biology Class 4
   2000 Human Physiology
  All the names of children appearing in the files are pseudonyms. You may not use the data without researcher's consent for publication or any commercial ventures. Please note that all the data is owned by the Regents of the University of California.

 

 


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