Experience with a Culturally Situated Design Tool: Learn to Culturally Whip Up a Computer
Abstract
Culturally situated design tools (CSDTs) are a collection of software tools that relate computing with fun aspects of various cultures. Part of the purpose of CSDTs is to help debunk some negative computing stigmas by using cultural activities that students are already familiar with. This may help increase the number of students pursuing computing. A hardware-based CSDT (hCSDT) called "Learn to Culturally Whip Up a Computer" is presented to complement existing CSDTs. A cultural cuisine metaphor has been designed based on various cultures so that students can relate making a meal to building a computer. Research results suggest that this hCSDT may help increase self-efficacy in computing. This session will benefit parents and educators wanting to find ways to convey computing concepts to students. Members of the audience will break up into teams of 3-5 members. Each person will be given a copy of the basic curriculum of the hCSDT.
Location
Room 2904
Recommended Citation
Watkins, Kera Bell, "Experience with a Culturally Situated Design Tool: Learn to Culturally Whip Up a Computer " (2009). SoTL Commons Conference. 115.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2009/115
Experience with a Culturally Situated Design Tool: Learn to Culturally Whip Up a Computer
Room 2904
Culturally situated design tools (CSDTs) are a collection of software tools that relate computing with fun aspects of various cultures. Part of the purpose of CSDTs is to help debunk some negative computing stigmas by using cultural activities that students are already familiar with. This may help increase the number of students pursuing computing. A hardware-based CSDT (hCSDT) called "Learn to Culturally Whip Up a Computer" is presented to complement existing CSDTs. A cultural cuisine metaphor has been designed based on various cultures so that students can relate making a meal to building a computer. Research results suggest that this hCSDT may help increase self-efficacy in computing. This session will benefit parents and educators wanting to find ways to convey computing concepts to students. Members of the audience will break up into teams of 3-5 members. Each person will be given a copy of the basic curriculum of the hCSDT.
