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Children as designers of educational multimedia software

Overview

The article presents and discusses the results of a project in which teams of elementary students were involved in designing and implementing interactive multimedia resources in science for younger children.

Resource Type (choose one category that best describes this Resource. Delete the rest)

• Papers and Reports

Intended Audience (Select all intended audiences for this Resource - choose one or more, delete the rest)

• Researchers
• Teachers/Educators

Topic Area (Select the general topic area for this Resource- choose sa many as apply, delete the rest. Add new if relevant)

• Technology Studies
• Research
• Teaching

Author(s)

Yasmin B. Kafai

Cynthia Carter Ching

Sue Marshall 

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• Use copyright below:
  © 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd. 

Keywords/Tags

multimedia software, educational software, children as designers 

Link to resource (add a URL to a resource, demo, etc)

Kafai Article pdf 

Paper citation. Use this only if the resource is of type "paper or citation" - add the proper citation (preferably in APA format)

Kafai, Y., Carter Ching C., Marshall, S. (1997). Children as designers of educational multimedia software. Computer Educ. Vol. 29, No. 2/3 pp. 117-126

Review and Wiki

• Interesting article with data to support author's claims that learning happened during the design process