Online Creative Collaboration
Using the Scratch online community as a context, we have been studying how young people engage in creative collaboration, leadership roles, civic engagement, and identity expression and exploration. Scratch is a programming language and an online community where young people can create and share their own interactive stories, games, and animations. As they create and share projects, young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Scratch is a project from the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.
Relevant publications
Roque, R. and Rusk, N. (2019). Youth perspectives on their development in a coding community. Information and Learning Sciences. 120 (5/6): 327-348.
Roque, R., Dasgupta, S., Costanza-Shock, S. (2016) Children's civic engagement in the Scratch Online Community. Social Science. 5(4): 1-17.
Roque, R, Rusk, N., Resnick, M. (2016). Supporting diverse and creative collaboration in the Scratch online community. In Cress, U., Jeong, H., and Moskaliuk, J. (Eds.) Mass Collaboration and Education. Springer.
Roque, R. (2015) Connecting coding and creativity: Creativity in the context of skills, literacy, and learning. In Cortesi, S. and Gasser, U. (Eds.) Digitally Connected. (pp. 57-59) The Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection.
Roque, R., Rusk, N., & Blanton, A. (2013) Youth roles and development of leadership in an online creative community. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) (pp. 399-405). Madison, WI.
Roque, R., Kafai, Y., and Fields, D. (2012) From tools to communities: Designs to support online creative collaboration in Scratch. Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 220-223). Bremen, Germany.