Playing with Computing Technologies in the Home
Education and Information Technologies
Infusing ICT use within the early years of elementary education
CRPIT '03 Proceedings of the international federation for information processing working group 3.5 open conference on Young children and learning technologies - Volume 34
Mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas
Mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas
Kelsa+: digital literacy for low-income office workers
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
Minimally invasive programming courses: learning OOP with(out) instruction
Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Technology for emerging markets at MSR india
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Considering failure: eight years of ITID research
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
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This paper explores the possibility of constructing a "minimally invasive" learning model from the results of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) Icon Association Inventory (devised by Dangwal and Inamdar [Mitra 2003]). We discuss the results obtained from four playground (hole-in-the-wall) computer kiosk sites in southern India, made freely available to children, without supervision, for nine months. Computing skills acquisition, as measured by the Icon Association Inventory, was plotted for each month and the learning curves are reported in the paper. The observed curves were fitted to predicted curves to understand the rates and stages of learning. Results indicate uniform improvement in the computing skills of the children who used these kiosks.