Explorations in Learning Digital Competences and Programming

Research projects

Creative coding among children and young people

Children's often fearless approach to new digital media, combined with their exploratory urge and ability to learn, enables them to explore the medium and create their own expressions. The digital media is built of code. Code is what enables interaction between the child and the digital media. For most children, code is unknown, and must be explored, experienced and learned.

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PhD projects

• Digital fabrication for mathematics teachers as a mean for concretising abstract concepts in mathematics education - Henrik Stigberg (2021-2024)

Master projects

• Digital Fabrication in Arts and Crafts: Co-Creation of classroom projects - Nils-Christian Walthinsen Rabben (ongoing)
• Digital Fabrication in Norwegian Arts Education - Fahad Faisal Said (2021)

• A conceptual model for programming concept comprehension with interactive metaphors - Karlsen, Ann-Charlott Beatrice Amundsen (2021)

• Metaphor-based tangible toolkit for programming education - Numic, Mustafa (2020)

Other projects

• DEKOMP Arts&Crafts 2020/2021

• DEKOMP Music 2020/2021

Blogs

• Programmering for matematikkundervisning
• Digital fabrikasjon for matematikkundervisning
• Digital fabrikasjon i Kunst og Håndverk

Publications

• Stigberg, Henrik; Stigberg, Susanne Koch & Maugesten, Marianne (2024). Introducing teacher students to digital fabrication to support children’s mathematical learning. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. ISSN 2212-8689. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100643.

• Stigberg, Henrik; Stigberg, Susanne Koch; Maugesten, Marianne & Kaufmann, Odd Tore (2023). Teachers' critical reflections on digital fabrication for making manipulatives to support mathematical thinking. I Drijvers, Paul; Csapodi, Csaba; Palmer, Hanna; Gosztonyi, Katalin & Kónya, Eszter (Red.), Proceedings of the thirteenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME13). European Society for Research in Mathematics Education. ISSN 978-963-7031-04-5. s. 2804–2811.

• Stigberg, Susanne Koch; Said, Fahad Faisal & Blauhut, Daniela (2023). Digital Fabrication in Arts and Crafts Education: A Critical Review. I Zaphiris, Panayiotis & Ioannou, Andri (Red.), Learning and Collaboration Technologies. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14040. Springer. ISSN 978-3-031-34411-4. s. 642–657. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-34411-4_44.

• Stigberg, Susanne Koch & Rabben, Nils-Christian Walthinsen (2023). Unveiling the Potential of Digital Fabrication in Arts & Crafts Education: A Future Workshop Approach for Technology-Enhanced Teaching. I Stigberg, Susanne Koch & Karlsen, Joakim (Red.), ACHI 2023: The Sixteenth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA). ISSN 978-1-68558-078-0. s. 24–27.

• Stigberg, Susanne Koch; Akerbæk, Tore Marius & Stigberg, Henrik (2022). Developing genres of educational programming videos to support mathematics teachers utilize programming in the classroom. Skrifter från Svensk förening för matematikdidaktisk forskning. ISSN 1651-3274. 17, s. 217–224.

• Maugesten, Marianne; Stigberg, Henrik & Stigberg, Susanne Koch (2022). Examining TPACK among 8th–10th grade teachers after introducing a Use-Modify-Create programming approach. I Nortvedt, Guri A.; Buchholtz, Nils; Fauskanger, Janne; Hähkiöniemi, Markus; Jessen, Britta Eyrich; Nilsen, Hans Kristian; Naalsund, Margrethe; Pálsdóttir, Guðbjörg; Portaankorva-Koivisto, Päivi; Radišić, Jelena; Sigurjónsson, Jóhann Örn; Viirman, Olov Lui & Wernberg, Anna (Red.), Bringing Nordic mathematics education into the future. Proceedings of Norma 20, The ninth Nordic Conference on Mathematics Education . Svensk förening för MatematikDidaktisk Forskning - SMDF. ISSN 978-91-984024-6-9. s. 169–176.

• Susanne Koch Stigberg, Henrik Stigberg, and Marianne Maugesten. 2022. Making Manipulatives for Mathematics Education. In 6th FabLearn Europe / MakeEd Conference 2022 (FabLearn Europe / MakeEd 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 1, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3535227.3535228 
• Karlsen, AC.B., Akerbæk, T.M., Stigberg, S.K. (2022). Towards a Metaphor-Based Tangible Toolkit for Learning Programming Concepts. In: Zaphiris, P., Ioannou, A. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13328. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05657-4_6
• Akerbæk, Tore Marius & Karlsen, Joakim (2019). Koding som skapende og utforskende aktivitet: En analyse av verktøy for å lære seg koding der å skape, utforske og uttrykke seg står i fokus, I: Kristine Høeg Karlsen & Gunhild Brænne Bjørnstad (red.),  Skaperglede, engasjement og utforskertrang. Nye perspektiver på estetiske og tverrfaglige undervisningsmetoder som redskap i pedagogisk virksomhet.  Universitetsforlaget.  ISBN 9788215029979.  Kapittel 7.  s 143 - 159
• Stigberg, Henrik & Stigberg, Susanne Koch (2019). Teaching programming and mathematics in practice: A case study from a Swedish primary school. Policy Futures in Education.  ISSN 1478-2103. . doi: 10.1177/1478210319894785
• Stigberg, Susanne Koch; Mencarini, Eleonora; Heiberg, Andreas & Bhadurkhan, Daniel (2019). Paper Pocket Pets - Making Wearable Interactive Toys, In Netta Iivari; Marianne Kinnula & Mikko Rajanen (ed.),  Proceedings of the FabLearn Europe 2019 Conference.  ACM Publications.  ISBN 978-1-4503-6266-5.  Article 25.
• Carcani, Klaudia; Gjellebæk, Camilla & Stigberg, Susanne Koch (2019). Participatory design as an approach for work-integrated learning of digital competences: putting theory into practice. NOKOBIT - Norsk konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi.  ISSN 1892-0748.  27(1) Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.