Using storytelling to motivate programming
Communications of the ACM - Creating a science of games
Communications of the ACM - Scratch Programming for All
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The iPad has opened the doors for innovation in digital storytelling, and helped unleash the power of storytelling as an aid in remedial learning. Demibooks Composer is an authoring platform for interactive book apps where content creation happens on the device itself and without the need for coding. Our system makes it easy for designers to create interactive stories quickly and inexpensively on a tablet device, and combine artistic creativity with computational thinking without actual programming. Innovative and powerful apps such as those useful for remedial learning are possible. We will demonstrate how our system can be used to create learning tools for the profoundly deaf. We will describe the motivation for the application and explain its functionality. The application will be implemented in the field in South Africa and elsewhere, and a formal study of the impact and outcomes of introducing these remedial learning apps is forthcoming.