Deborah A. Fields

According to our database, Deborah A. Fields authored at least 78 papers between 2006 and 2024.

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2024

Distributed debugging with electronic textiles: understanding high school student pairs' problem-solving strategies, practices, and perspectives on repairing physical computing projects.

Gayithri Jayathirtha, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Comput. Sci. Educ., October, 2024

Connecting beliefs, mindsets, anxiety and self-efficacy in computer science learning: an instrument for capturing secondary school students' self-beliefs.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Michael T. Giang, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Comput. Sci. Educ., July, 2024

Assessing Changes in Thinking about Troubleshooting in Physical Computing: A Clinical Interview Protocol with Failure Artifacts Scenarios.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Deepali Barapatre

CoRR, 2024

Understanding Growth Mindset Practices in an Introductory Physical Computing Classroom: High School Students' Engagement with Debugging by Design Activities.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

CoRR, 2024

Failure Artifact Scenarios to Understand High School Students' Growth in Troubleshooting Physical Computing Projects.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, Deepali Barapatre, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

Enduring Lessons from 'Computer Science for All' for AI Education in Schools.

Shuchi Grover, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Shana V. White, Carla Strickland

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

2023

Designing Bugs or Doing Another Project: Effects on Secondary Students' Self-Beliefs in Computer Science.

Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, Michael T. Giang, Yasmin B. Kafai

CoRR, 2023

The Transformational Power of Everyday Representations as Objects-to-Think-With in a Thai Farmer's Life.

Leah F. Rosenbaum, Deborah A. Fields, Luis Morales-Navarro, Paulo Blikstein

Proceedings of FabLearn / Constructionism 2023: Full and Short Research Papers, 2023

When Good Gets Better: Experienced Computer Science Teachers? Reflections on implementing E-textiles in their Classrooms as a Vehicle for Advancing Equity.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Yanil De La Rosa-Walcott

Proceedings of FabLearn / Constructionism 2023: Full and Short Research Papers, 2023

2022

Advancing Opportunities for CS Teachers: How To Best Support Professional Development for Experienced Teachers in K-12 CS Education.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Joanna Goode, Bryan Twarek, Deborah A. Fields, Aman Yadav, Linnea Logan

Proceedings of the SIGCSE 2022: The 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2022

2021

Communicating about computational thinking: understanding affordances of portfolios for assessing high school students' computational thinking and participation practices.

Deborah A. Fields, Debora Lui, Yasmin B. Kafai, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Justice T. Walker, Mia S. Shaw

Comput. Sci. Educ., 2021

Debugging by design: A constructionist approach to high school students' crafting and coding of electronic textiles as failure artefacts.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Luis Morales-Navarro, Justice T. Walker

Br. J. Educ. Technol., 2021

Learner-Centered Pedagogies for Equity and Inclusion in K-12 Introductory Programming.

Shuchi Grover, Jill Denner, Jakita Thomas, Deborah A. Fields, Maya Israel

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, 2021

Designing the Virtual SPIKEY-20 Epidemic: Engaging Youth in Seeking Information and Using Personal Protection.

Amanda Strawhacker, Yasmin B. Kafai, Michael T. Giang, Deborah A. Fields, Colby Tofel-Grehl

Proceedings of the IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children, 2021

2020

Communicating computational concepts and practices within high school students' portfolios of making electronic textiles.

Debora Lui, Justice T. Walker, Sheri Hanna, Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Gayithri Jayathirtha

Interact. Learn. Environ., 2020

Leveraging local resources and contexts for inclusive computer science classrooms: Reflections from experienced high school teachers implementing electronic textiles.

Mia S. Shaw, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Comput. Sci. Educ., 2020

Looking Ahead: Professional Development Needs for Experienced CS Teachers.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Jake Baskin, Deborah A. Fields, Joanna Goode, Bryan Twarek, Aman Yadav

Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2020

Turning Bugs into Learning Opportunities: Understanding Debugging Processes, Perspectives, and Pedagogies.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Gautam Biswas, Nicole Hutchins, Caitlin Snyder, Karen Brennan, Paulina Haduong, Kayla DesPortes, Morgan Fong, Virginia J. Flood, Oia Walker-van Aalst, David DeLiema, Deborah A. Fields, Melissa S. Gresalfi, Corey E. Brady, Selena Steinberg, Madison Knowe, Diana Franklin, Merijke Coenraad, David Weintrop, Donna Eatinger, Jen Palmer, Michelle Hoda Wilkerson, Collette Roberto, Nicole Bulalacao, Joshua A. Danish

Proceedings of the Interdisciplinarity in the Learning Sciences: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2020

Pair Debugging of Electronic Textiles Projects: Analyzing Think-Aloud Protocols for High School Students' Strategies and Practices While Problem Solving.

Gayithri Jayathirtha, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Interdisciplinarity in the Learning Sciences: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2020

A Redesigned Reconstruction Kit for Rapid Collaborative Debugging and Designing of E-Textiles.

Deborah A. Fields, Yuhan Lin, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the FabLearn '20: FabLearn 2020 - 9th Annual Conference on Maker Education, New York, NY, USA, April 4, 2020

2019

Stitching the Loop with Electronic Textiles: Promoting Equity in High School Students' Competencies and Perceptions of Computer Science.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Debora A. Lui, Justice T. Walker, Mia S. Shaw, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Tomoko M. Nakajima, Joanna Goode, Michael T. Giang

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019

Rethinking Debugging as Productive Failure for CS Education.

Yasmin B. Kafai, David DeLiema, Deborah A. Fields, Gary Lewandowski, Colleen M. Lewis

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019

Student Maker Portfolios: Promoting Computational Communication and Reflection in Crafting E-Textiles.

Debora Lui, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of FabLearn 2019, New York, NY, USA, March 09-10, 2019, 2019

Bugs as a Nexus for Emergent Peer Collaborations: Contextual and Classroom Supports for Solving Problems in Electronic Textiles.

Deborah A. Fields, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2019

Personal Embodiment, Social Enactment: Collaborative Learning With Body Technology.

Deborah A. Fields, Cynthia Carter Ching, Victor R. Lee, Breanne K. Litts, Chase K. Mortensen, Joshua A. Danish, Megan Humburg, Bria Davis, Xintian Tu, Debora Lui, Mia S. Shaw, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai, Lindsay Lindberg, Robb Lindgren, James Planey, Jason Morphew, Katie Headrick Taylor, Adam Bell, Erin Riesland, Maria Hays, Deborah Silvis, Ilana Dubovi, Noel Enyedy, Rogers Hall

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2019

2018

Design Considerations for Capturing Computational Thinking Practices in High School Students' Electronic Textile Portfolios.

Debora Lui, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Deborah A. Fields, Mia S. Shaw, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Rethinking learning in the digital age: Making the Learning Sciences count, 2018

2017

Youth Computational Participation in the Wild: Understanding Experience and Equity in Participating and Programming in the Online Scratch Community.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Michael T. Giang

ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., 2017

Plagues and people: engineering player participation and prevention in a virtual epidemic.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Michael T. Giang, Nina H. Fefferman, Jacqueline Wong

Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2017

Teaching Practices for Making E-Textiles in High School Computing Classrooms.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Tomoko M. Nakajima, Joanna Goode

Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Creativity and Fabrication in Education, 2017

Designing for Massive Engagement in a Tween Community: Participation, Prevention, and Philanthropy in a Virtual Epidemic.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Michael T. Giang, Nina H. Fefferman, Jen Sun, Daniel Kunka, Jacqueline Wong

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2017

2016

Combining Big Data and Thick Data Analyses for Understanding Youth Learning Trajectories in a Summer Coding Camp.

Deborah A. Fields, Lisa Quirke, Janell Amely, Jason Maughan

Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education, 2016

Connected Making: Designing for Youth Learning in Online Maker Communities In and Out of Schools.

Breanne K. Litts, Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Erica Halverson, Kylie Peppler, Anna Keune, Mike Tissenbaum, Sara M. Grimes, Stephanie Chang, Lisa Regalla, Orkan Telhan, Michael Tan

Proceedings of the Transforming Learning, 2016

Deconstruction Kits for Learning: Students' Collaborative Debugging of Electronic Textile Designs.

Deborah A. Fields, Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Creativity and Fabrication in Education, 2016

Studying situated learning in a constructionist programming camp: A multimethod microgenetic analysis of one girl's learning pathway.

Katarina Pantic, Deborah A. Fields, Lisa Quirke

Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2016

2015

The programmers' collective: fostering participatory culture by making music videos in a high school Scratch coding workshop.

Deborah A. Fields, Veena Vasudevan, Yasmin B. Kafai

Interact. Learn. Environ., 2015

"I have a tutorial for this": the language of online peer support in the scratch programming community.

Deborah A. Fields, Katarina Pantic, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2015

2014

A Crafts-Oriented Approach to Computing in High School: Introducing Computational Concepts, Practices, and Perspectives with Electronic Textiles.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Eunkyoung Lee, Kristin A. Searle, Deborah A. Fields, Eliot Kaplan, Debora Lui

ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., 2014

Programming in the wild: trends in youth computational participation in the online scratch community.

Deborah A. Fields, Michael T. Giang, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 9th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, 2014

Motivating and Broadening Participation: Competitions, Contests, Challenges, and Circles for Supporting STEM Learning.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Natalie Rusk, Quinn Burke, Chad Mote, Kylie Peppler, Deborah A. Fields, Ricarose Roque, Orkan Telhan, Karen Elinich, Alecia Marie Magnifico

Proceedings of the Learning and Becoming in Practice: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2014

The Programmers' Collective: Connecting Collaboration and Computation in a High School Scratch Mashup Coding Workshop.

Deborah A. Fields, Veena Vasudevan, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the Learning and Becoming in Practice: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2014

"So, I think I'm a Programmer Now": Developing Connected Learning for Adults in a University Craft Technologies Course.

Deborah A. Fields, Whitney L. King

Proceedings of the Learning and Becoming in Practice: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2014

Diversifying high school students' views about computing with electronic textiles.

Kristin A. Searle, Deborah A. Fields, Debora A. Lui, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the International Computing Education Research Conference, 2014

Novice Programmers Talking about Projects: What Automated Text Analysis Reveals about Online Scratch Users' Comments.

Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Deborah A. Fields, David Olsen, Taylor Martin, Mark C. Shepherd, Anna Strommer, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2014

2013

Cupcake cushions, scooby doo shirts, and soft boomboxes: e-textiles in high school to promote computational concepts, practices, and perceptions.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Kristin A. Searle, Eliot Kaplan, Deborah A. Fields, Eunkyoung Lee, Debora Lui

Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2013

A cascading mentoring pedagogy in a CS service learning course to broaden participation and perceptions.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Jean Griffin, Quinn Burke, Michelle Slattery, Deborah A. Fields, Rita Manco Powell, Michele Grab, Susan B. Davidson, Joseph S. Sun

Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2013

Understanding Collaborative Practices in the Scratch Online Community: Patterns of Participation Among Youth Designers.

Deborah A. Fields, Michael T. Giang, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2013

Researching Productive Connective Sites Where Interest, Learning, and Identity Intersect.

Deborah A. Fields

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2013

Hybrid Shmybrid: Using Collaborative Structure to Understand the Relationship between Virtual and Tangible Elements of a Computational Craft.

Maneksha DuMont, Deborah A. Fields

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2013

2012

Debuggems to assess student learning in e-textiles (abstract only).

Deborah A. Fields, Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai, Hannah S. Min

Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, 2012

Connecting play: understanding multimodal participation in virtual worlds.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields

Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2012

Making Technology Visible: Connecting the Learning of Crafts, Circuitry and Coding in Etextiles by Youth Designers.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Kristin A. Searle

Proceedings of the Future of Learning: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2012

Functional Aesthetics for Learning: Creative Tensions in Youth e-Textile Designs.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Kristin A. Searle

Proceedings of the Future of Learning: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2012

From tools to communities: designs to support online creative collaboration in scratch.

Ricarose Roque, Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2012

2011

Collaboration by Choice: Youth Online Creative Collabs in Scratch.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Ricarose Roque, Deborah A. Fields, Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education, 2011

Collaborative Agency in Youth Online Creative Production in Scratch.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, William Q. Burke

Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education, 2011

The Role of Different Narratives in Recognizing Peer Expertise in Collaborative Programming Projects.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2011

Crafting Identities: E-Textile Artifacts as Mediators in High Tech Communities.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2011

Articulating creativity in a new domain: expert insights from the field of e-textiles.

Kylie A. Peppler, Diane Glosson, Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Kristin A. Searle

Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Creativity & Cognition, 2011

Everyday creativity in novice e-textile designs.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Kristin A. Searle

Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Creativity & Cognition, 2011

2010

Entering the Clubhouse: Case Studies of Young Programmers Joining the Online Scratch Communities.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, William Q. Burke

J. Organ. End User Comput., 2010

Multi-Modal Investigations of Relationship Play in Virtual Worlds.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Kristin A. Searle

Int. J. Gaming Comput. Mediat. Simulations, 2010

Your Second Selves: Player-Designed Avatars.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Melissa S. Cook

Games Cult., 2010

''Blacks Deserve Bodies Too!'': Design and Discussion About Diversity and Race in a Tween Virtual World.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Melissa S. Cook, Deborah A. Fields

Games Cult., 2010

Knowing and Throwing Mudballs, Hearts, Pies, and Flowers: A Connective Ethnography of Gaming Practices.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Games Cult., 2010

''Stealing From Grandma'' or Generating Cultural Knowledge?: Contestations and Effects of Cheating in a Tween Virtual World.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Games Cult., 2010

From home to school and back again: intersecting trajectories of identification in a student's development as a writer.

Deborah A. Fields

Proceedings of the Learning in the Disciplines: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2010

2009

A connective ethnography of peer knowledge sharing and diffusion in a tween virtual world.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Int. J. Comput. Support. Collab. Learn., 2009

Transgressive Gender Play: Profiles and Portraits of Girl Players in a Tween Virtual World.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Michael T. Giang

Proceedings of the 2009 DiGRA International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, 2009

What Videogame Making Can Teach Us About Access and Ethics in Participatory Culture.

Yasmin B. Kafai, William Q. Burke, Deborah A. Fields

Proceedings of the 2009 DiGRA International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, 2009

From outcast to expert: identities as a conceptual lens for studying learning through design across spaces.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2009

Understanding identities across social spaces.

Deborah A. Fields

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2009

2008

Culturally relevant mathematics: students' cultural engagement with statistics.

Deborah A. Fields, Noel Enyedy

Proceedings of the Cre8ing a learning world: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference for the Learning Sciences, 2008

2007

Your Second Selves: Resources, Agency, and Constraints in Avatar Designs and Identity Play in a Tween Virtual World.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Melissa S. Cook

Proceedings of the 2007 DiGRA International Conference: Situated Play, 2007

"Blacks Deserve Bodies Too!" Design and Discussion about Diversity and Race in a Tween Online World.

Yasmin B. Kafai, Melissa S. Cook, Deborah A. Fields

Proceedings of the 2007 DiGRA International Conference: Situated Play, 2007

Stealing from Grandma or Generating Cultural Knowledge? Contestations and Effects of Cheats in a Tween Virtual World.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 2007 DiGRA International Conference: Situated Play, 2007

Tracing insider knowledge across time and spaces: a connective ethnography in a teen online game world.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 7th Iternational Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2007

Illegitimate practices as legitimate participation: game cheat sites in a teen virtual world.

Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

Proceedings of the 7th Iternational Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2007

2006

Identities and Astronomy Camp: How Individual Campers Make Meaning of Science Experiences.

Deborah A. Fields

Proceedings of the Making a Difference...: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference for the Learning Sciences, 2006