Some Reflections on Designing Construction Kits for Kids

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Title

Some Reflections on Designing Construction Kits for Kids

Abstract/Description

In this paper, we present ten guiding principles for designing construction kits for kids, informed by our experiences over the past two decades:* Design for Designers* Low Floor and Wide Walls* Make Powerful Ideas Salient -- Not Forced* Support Many Paths, Many Styles* Make it as Simple as Possible -- and Maybe Even Simpler* Choose Black Boxes Carefully* A Little Bit of Programming Goes a Long Way* Give People What They Want -- Not What They Ask For* Invent Things That You Would Want to Use Yourself* Iterate, Iterate -- then Iterate AgainWhile these principles apply especially to the development of construction kits, we believe that they could be useful for everyone who designs new technologies for kids.

Author/creator

Resnick, Mitchel

Silverman, Brian

Date

2005

In publication

Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Interaction design and children

Series

IDC '05

Pages

117–122

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Empirical

Keywords

education

learning

design

construction kits

metadesign

Open access/full-text available

en Yes

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISBN

978-1-59593-096-5

DOI

10.1145/1109540.1109556

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (ACM Digital Library)

Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)

Citation

Resnick, M., & Silverman, B. (2005). Some Reflections on Designing Construction Kits for Kids. Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 117–122. https://doi.org/10.1145/1109540.1109556

Cited in

Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences: Theoretical, Practical, and Empirical Perspectives

Place

New York, NY, USA

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OB Citations - Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences

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