Computational making framework (Rode et al., 2015)

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Description

The framework describes the child as "the artifact creator who makes autonomous judgments and applies nonlinear processes when constructing artifacts" and organizes computational making into five dimensions: aesthetics, creativity, constructing, visualizing multiple representations, and understanding materials. This study adopted it as the analytical lens for coding facilitators' fieldnotes, triangulated with artifacts and video, and reported findings under each of the five dimensions.

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• Computational making framework (Rode et al., 2015) with five dimensions as an analytical lens for children's e-textile projects: The framework describes the child as "the artifact creator who makes autonomous judgments and applies nonlinear processes when constructing artifacts" and organizes computational making into five dimensions: aesthetics, creativity, constructing, visualizing multiple representations, and understanding materials. This study adopted it as the analytical lens for coding facilitators' fieldnotes, triangulated with artifacts and video, and reported findings under each of the five dimensions. (Ioannou et al. (2025))

Claims

• Constructing and materiality posed the main computational making challenges: frayed conductive thread caused short circuits, and two pairs' projects failed without substantial assistance [+M]
• Sharing multiple sample e-textile projects and sample code appeared to limit children's creativity, with final artifacts imitating the samples [+M]

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Key Sources

• Ioannou, A., Miliou, O., Georgiou, Y., Timotheou, S., Barkhuus, L., & Rode, J. (2025). Learning design for short-duration e-textile workshops: outcomes on knowledge and skills. Education Tech Research Dev, 73, 443–463. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-024-10411-8

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title	Computational making framework (Rode et al., 2015)
description	The framework describes the child as "the artifact creator who makes autonomous judgments and applies nonlinear processes when constructing artifacts" and organizes computational making into five dimensions: aesthetics, creativity, constructing, visualizing multiple representations, and understandin
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