Whiteboxing bits’n’bots: How ‘flawed’ and emerging technologies can facilitate computational play and learning

Lykke Brogaard Bertel; Pauline Fredskilde

doi:10.4324/9781003108573-14

Whiteboxing bits’n’bots: How ‘flawed’ and emerging technologies can facilitate computational play and learning

Lykke Brogaard Bertel, Pauline Fredskilde

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Abstract

In this chapter, we argue that great educational potential can be found in emerging technology because of its limitations, not in spite of them. Based on the notion of computational play, we explore different empirical examples of emerging technologies in their inherently frail state, their flaws and failures, and discuss their potential to motivate white-boxing and become “objects to think (computationally) with” in surprising, playful ways; creating new cyber-physical learning spaces, communities and emerging computational play practices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Digital Learning and Collaborative Practices : Lessons from Inclusive and Empowering Participation with Emerging Technologies
Editors	Eva Brooks, Susanne Dau, Staffan Selander
Number of pages	16
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	2021
Chapter	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003108573
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003108573-14
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

Robot-supported learning
Emerging technologies
Computational Thinking
Computational play

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Bertel, L. B., & Fredskilde, P. (2021). Whiteboxing bits’n’bots: How ‘flawed’ and emerging technologies can facilitate computational play and learning. In E. Brooks, S. Dau, & S. Selander (Eds.), Digital Learning and Collaborative Practices: Lessons from Inclusive and Empowering Participation with Emerging Technologies Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003108573-14

Bertel, Lykke Brogaard ; Fredskilde, Pauline. / Whiteboxing bits’n’bots : How ‘flawed’ and emerging technologies can facilitate computational play and learning. Digital Learning and Collaborative Practices: Lessons from Inclusive and Empowering Participation with Emerging Technologies. editor / Eva Brooks ; Susanne Dau ; Staffan Selander. New York : Routledge, 2021.

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Bertel, LB & Fredskilde, P 2021, Whiteboxing bits’n’bots: How ‘flawed’ and emerging technologies can facilitate computational play and learning. in E Brooks, S Dau & S Selander (eds), Digital Learning and Collaborative Practices: Lessons from Inclusive and Empowering Participation with Emerging Technologies. Routledge, New York. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003108573-14

Whiteboxing bits’n’bots: How ‘flawed’ and emerging technologies can facilitate computational play and learning. / Bertel, Lykke Brogaard; Fredskilde, Pauline.
Digital Learning and Collaborative Practices: Lessons from Inclusive and Empowering Participation with Emerging Technologies. ed. / Eva Brooks; Susanne Dau; Staffan Selander. New York: Routledge, 2021.

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