Coding choreography
Understanding student responses to representational incompatibilities between dance and programming
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21744227 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Selena Steinberg (0000-0003-0032-8957, Vanderbilt University, corresponding author), Melissa Gresalfi (0000-0002-3307-3914, Vanderbilt University), Lauren Vogelstein (0000-0002-2317-2513, Vanderbilt University), Corey Brady (0000-0002-4086-9638, Vanderbilt University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 314-331 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1539-1523 • E-ISSN: 1945-0818 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15391523.2022.2135144 |
| OpenAlex | W4307441592 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 53 |
This paper considers how a curricular design that integrated computer programming and creative movement shaped students’ engagement with computing. We draw on data from a camp for middle schoolers, focusing on an activity in which students used the programming environment NetLogo to re-represent their physical choreography. We analyze the extent to which students noticed incompatibilities (mismatches between possibilities in dance and NetLogo), and how encountering them shaped their coding. Our findings suggest that as students attended to incompatibilities, they experienced struggle, but persisted and engaged in iterative cycles of design. Our work suggests that tensions between arts and programming may promote student engagement
Art · Choreography · Computer programming · Dance · Dance education · Human–computer interaction · Mathematics education · Multimedia · NetLogo · Pedagogy · Programming language · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Educational Games and Gamification · Psychology · Teaching and Learning Programming
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |