The Prototyping Mind: Rethinking Perception, Affordances, and the Mediation of Cultural Artifacts

Kabayadondo, Zaza

doi:10.1080/10749039.2015.1087570

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“…These practices can develop through projects that combine storytelling, prototyping, repairing, writing codes, and coordination across two-dimensional drawings to build three-dimensional objects. Many working-class communities engage in these activities in the "process of seeing spaces of 'strained resources' as sites for resourcefulness" (Kabayadondo, 2016). With limited access to high-tech digital tools and time to design and learn new digital computational thinking practices, skilled community educators are underutilized as transformative actors poised to connect computational thinking to everyday practices with groups of young people.…”

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Developing High-Tech, Low-Cost Making Projects to Enhance Computational Teaching and Learning

Shea¹

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Developing High-Tech, Low-Cost Making Projects to Enhance Computational Teaching and Learning

Shea¹

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting

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Gaming Literacies: Spatiality, Materiality, and Analog Learning in a Digital Age

Garcia

2019

Reading Research Quarterly

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The author explored the literacy practices in tabletop gaming communities. Focusing on the role of spatiality and materiality in nondigital contexts, this study broadens how literacies research engages with sociocultural analysis of primarily analog settings. Building on experiences in playing the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, the author analyzed how literacies shape the collaborative storytelling and interpretation of complex rules mechanics required for play. The author drew on 26 months of collected ethnographic data, including participant observation of hundreds of hours of tabletop role-playing game sessions, interviews, and textual analysis. Describing how gaming literacy practices are enacted, the findings from this study identify three different spaces in which analog literacies often emerge: in-game literacies, at-the-table literacies, and beyond-the-table literacies. Exploring how participants read, produce, and communicate in ways that move across these domains, the author emphasizes the roles of temporality and spatiality in understanding contemporary literacies. Further, as Dungeons & Dragons is mediated by myriad books and physical objects, such as dice, sheets of paper, and small figurines, the role of materiality in analog literacies differs substantially from digital contexts. At the same time, exploring the cultural practices and talk that shaped play, the author emphasizes that analog gaming remains connected to the digital affordances of online texts, transmedia production, and tools for communication. By considering how seemingly archaic gaming practices recast literacies research around games and learning, the author argues for continued scrutiny of these playful domains. James: OK, I think Kreznar is going to move here [gestures to a plastic figurine on a large vinyl mat printed with oneinch squares] and-Taylor: That's within the spike growth I cast last round. James: [pause] Antero, can I see one of the drow from where I am standing? Antero: [gesturing at a line drawn on the grid] This is-not really, this is like a wall here. But if you moved left-move to my left-you would have a clear line of sight. James: Right. So, I'm going to move there, fire an arrow, and duck back behind the rocker , wall thing. Antero: Sounds like a plan. Go ahead and make your roll.

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When Makerspaces Meet School: Negotiating Tensions Between Instruction and Construction

Tan

2018

J Sci Educ Technol

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The Prototyping Mind: Rethinking Perception, Affordances, and the Mediation of Cultural Artifacts

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

Developing High-Tech, Low-Cost Making Projects to Enhance Computational Teaching and Learning

Developing High-Tech, Low-Cost Making Projects to Enhance Computational Teaching and Learning

Gaming Literacies: Spatiality, Materiality, and Analog Learning in a Digital Age

When Makerspaces Meet School: Negotiating Tensions Between Instruction and Construction

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