#hcil Designing Sci-dentities: How Sci-Fi, Re-Mix, and social media can promote youth interest in science (Mega Subramaniam and June Ahn)

goal: get kids more engaged with science
after school program in primarily poorer neighborhoods in DC area
design of library space is very important to foster interest and engagement; add resources to libraries to attract kids in
design for multiple literacies; story-telling rather than writing, record stories, multi-media and pictures
co-design the online community with librarians and students
in use, discover issues of kids gaming the site; e.g. re-mix allows cloning of others’ work to change, but got points for just cloning; redesigning better re-mix model this summer
design experiences, not merely curriculum or technology

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