Unstitching the Fabric of Informal Learning: Researching Collective Quiltmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand

Warner, Linda Claire; Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita; Hakkarainen, Kai

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-48845-1_14

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“…Becoming a member of a quilting community [58], such as a guild, motivates our focus group participants to continually learn and gain skills in their craft. Through such guilds, our participants meet other craftspeople that share their interest and passion.…”

Section: Community Infuence On Motivation and Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“My Brain Does Not Function That Way”: Comparing Quilters’ Perceptions and Motivations Towards Computing and Quilting

Mirecki

Spitaels

Royer

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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The systemic, mathematical, and procedural underpinnings of quilting make the domain a useful metaphor for introductory Computer Science (CS) education, although it is currently used primarily in K-16 educational settings. Considering informal CS education for adult women, we examine the potential depth of this metaphor by exploring how skilled craftspeople engage with and understand quilting-as-metaphor in the context of CS education. In this paper we report the fndings of our frst focus group with quilters to compare their perceptions and experiences related to quilting and CS. We identifed six common themes in how quilters relate the two domains: innate versus learned skills, computing skills as an aid to personal expression, avoiding computing, time investment and tangible rewards, community infuence on motivation and learning, and systematic prejudice and its efects. We elaborate upon our fndings and discuss potential applications to the design of educational technologies that integrate craft and computation.

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Section: Community Infuence On Motivation and Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%