Empowering Middle School Students to Create Data-enabled Social Apps
Description
MIT App Inventor has enabled middle school students to learn computing while creating their own apps-including apps that serve community needs. However, few resources exist for building apps that gather and share data. There is a need for new tools and instructional materials for students to build data-enbaled, community-focused apps. We developed an extension for App Inventor, called AppleVis, which allows app-makers to publish and retrieve data from our existing web-based collaborative data visualization platform.
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PUBLICATION DETAILS
Type
Article
Publisher
Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges
Topic(s)
Computational Thinking
Informal Learning and Afterschool
STEM Career Opportunities and Workforce Development
Youth Motivation and Interests in STEM
Publication Year
2017
Additional Disciplines
Computer Science - general
Computer Science - gaming and simulations
Computer Science - general skills and mathematics
Computer Science - multimedia - audio, video and animation
Computer Science - programming
Computer Science - web development