Empowering families facing English literacy challenges to jointly engage in computer programming

Rahul Banerjee; Leanne Liu; Kiley Sobel; Caroline Pitt; Kung Jin Lee; Meng Wang; Sijin Chen; Lydia Davison; Jason C. Yip; Andrew J. Ko; Zoran Popović

doi:10.1145/3173574.3174196

Empowering families facing English literacy challenges to jointly engage in computer programming

Rahul Banerjee
, Leanne Liu
, Kiley Sobel
, Caroline Pitt
, Kung Jin Lee
, Meng Wang
, Sijin Chen
, Lydia Davison
, Jason C. Yip
, Andrew J. Ko
, Zoran Popović

Department of Library & Information Science

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

23 Scopus citations

Abstract

Research suggests that parental engagement through Joint Media Engagement (JME) is an important factor in chil-dren's learning for coding and programming. Unfortunate-ly, parents with limited technology background may have difficulty supporting their children's access to program-ming. English-language learning (ELL) families from mar-ginalized communities face particular challenges in under-standing and supporting programming, as code is primarily authored using English text. We present BlockStudio, a programming tool for empowering ELL families to jointly engage in introductory coding, using an environment em-bodying two design principles, text-free and visually con-crete. We share a case study involving three community centers serving immigrant and refugee populations. Our findings show ELL families can jointly engage in pro-gramming without text, via co-creation and flexible roles, and can create a range of artifacts, indicating understanding of aspects of programming within this environment. We conclude with implications for coding together in ELL fam-ilies and design ideas for text-free programming research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Engage with CHI
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356206, 9781450356213
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174196
State	Published - 20 Apr 2018
Event	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2018-April

Conference

Conference	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	21/04/18 → 26/04/18

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© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.

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Keywords

Coding
English-language learning (ELL) families
Joint media engagement (JME)
Programming
Text-free

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Banerjee, R., Liu, L., Sobel, K., Pitt, C., Lee, K. J., Wang, M., Chen, S., Davison, L., Yip, J. C., Ko, A. J., & Popović, Z. (2018). Empowering families facing English literacy challenges to jointly engage in computer programming. In CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2018-April). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174196

Banerjee, Rahul ; Liu, Leanne ; Sobel, Kiley et al. / Empowering families facing English literacy challenges to jointly engage in computer programming. CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Empowering families facing English literacy challenges to jointly engage in computer programming. / Banerjee, Rahul; Liu, Leanne; Sobel, Kiley et al.
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Empowering families facing English literacy challenges to jointly engage in computer programming

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