WATCH-Workshop of African Americans thinking computationally and historically: Rediscovering and Recreating African American Historical Accounts through Mobile App. This project seeks to investigate how African Americans students’ engagement with technology through mobile apps and visitations to South Carolina’s African American historical sites can promote learning in history education.
The goal of the project is to design and implement a study of a physical computing summer camp where middle and high school students will design a 2D video game using game maker and an arduino-based game controller. We seek to understand how students learn to program through design-based projects. The role games play in motivating and connecting to students' interests and helping students to express creativity with computing. The extent to which physical computing increases students' understanding of the programming underlying the functionality of physical devices.