come_IN – Interkulturelles Lernen mittels computergestützter Projektarbeit
Duration: 2005-2008, since 2009 (Universität Siegen)
Sponsorship: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Contact person: Dipl.-Journ. Anne Weibert – Dipl.-Wirt.Inform. Konstantin Aal
Learning by doing is the basic concept for all activities in the intercultural come_IN computer clubs – with the computer being at the center. It constitutes the central tool to work, learn and play with in the collaborative project activities in the club. Children and adult participants decide on project topics together, and then plan and put these into practice in the club’s weekly meetings.
The basic idea of come_IN: By means of this collaborative project work of children and adults from different cultural, social and economical backgrounds, cross-cultural understanding and respect is fostered in the intercultural neighborhood, and ultimately the formation of a lively and engaged local community. The computer-based project activities foster learning, the acquisition of language skills, and identity building.
With this, the work of the come_IN computer clubs builds on principles of practice-based, constructionist learning that has been established in computer clubhouses in the US since 1993 by researchers of the MIT Media Lab. These clubhouses address the disadvantaged inner city youth, opening up learning opportunities and the chance to be creative and develop IT skills. The come_IN computer clubs develop this concept further by applying it to the intercultural and intergenerational neighborhood context.
Publications
2016
(2016) Facilitating STEAM Learning among Children with Paper Circuit Activities, FabLearn Europe, pdf
(2016) Lifecycles of Computer Clubs: Rhythms and Patterns of Collaboration and Learning in an Intercultural Setting, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Supporting Group Work, p. 137-147, New York, NY, USA: ACM, url, doi:10.1145/2957276.2957306
(2016) Challenges of CI Initiatives in a Political Unstable Situation -Case Study of a Computer Club in a Refugee Camp, doi:10.1145/2957276.2996281
(2016) Out of Syria: Mobile Media in Use at the Time of Civil War, International Journal of Human Computer Interaction 32(7), p. 515-531, url, doi:10.1080/10447318.2016.1177300
2015
(2015) 3D Printing with Marginalized Children - An Exploration in a Palestinian Refugee Camp, ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19-23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway, Nina Boulus-Rødje, Gunnar Ellingsen, Tone Bratteteig, Margunn Aanestad, Pernille Bjørn (ed.), p. 83-102, Springer, url, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20499-4_5
(2015) "Hey, can we make that, please?": Upon Craft as a Means for Cross-cultural Community-Building, The Journal of Community Informatics 11(2), url
(2015) From Computational Thinking to Computational Making, Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, p. 239-250, New York, NY, USA: ACM, url, doi:10.1145/2750858.2804261
(2015) Bridging (Gender-Related) Barriers: A Comparative Study of Intercultural Computer Clubs, Proceedings of the Third Conference on GenderIT, p. 17-23, New York, NY, USA: ACM, url, doi:10.1145/2807565.2807708
(2015) When Ideas Learn How to Fly: Crossing Cultural Boundaries with Geocaching Project Work, Lightning Talk at re:publica 2015
2014
(2014) Sewing Interest in E-Textiles: Analyzing Making from a Gendered Perspective, Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems - DIS '14, p. 15-24, New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, url, doi:10.1145/2598510.2600886
(2014) Playful, collaborative approaches to 3D modeling and 3D printing, Mensch & Computer: Tagungsband, Andreas Butz, Michael Koch, Johann H Schlichter (ed.), p. 363-366, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, url
(2014) Come_in@Palestine: Adapting a German Computer Club Concept to a Palestinian Refugee Camp, Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Collaboration Across Boundaries: Culture, Distance & Technology, p. 111-120, New York, NY, USA: ACM, url, doi:10.1145/2631488.2631498
(2014) Come_IN: Expanding Computer Clubs Towards Tinkering and Making, Workshop on "Teaching to Tinker" at NordiCHI 2014., url
2013
(2013) Fighting against the wall: Social media use by political activists in a Palestinian village, Proceedings of CHI '13, p. 1979-1988, url, doi:10.1145/2470654.2466262
(2013) Aneignungsunterstützung durch die Integration spielerischer Elemente in eine Onlineplattform für interkulturelle Computerclubs, pdf
(2013) Informatik erschließen: Ein curricularer Ansatz für Mädchen, Informatik-Spektrum 36(3), p. 230-241, doi:10.1007/s00287-013-0696-x
(2013) Come_IN@Palestine: Adapting a German Computer Club Concept to a Palestinian Refugee Camp, CSCL 2013 Vol.II, ISLS
(2013) When Ideas Learn How to Fly: Children at the Intersection of Formal and Informal Learning Settings, CSCL 2013 Vol.II, ISLS.
2012
(2012) Erweiterung der sozialen Plattform come_NET um einen kindgerechten Artefakt Austausch (Diplomarbeit), pdf
2011
(2011) come IN – Netzwerk interkultureller Computerclubs. Ein Projektbuchhandbuch
(2011) Upon the Role of the Teacher in the Informal Learning Setting of an Intercultural Computer Club
(2011) Gestaltungsperspektiven einer Online-Community-Plattform zur Vernetzung von Computerclubs
(2011) come_IN: Interkulturelle Computerclubs zur Förderung von Integrationsprozessen, Informatik-Spektrum 34(3), p. 286-294, Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/s00287-010-0437-3
(2011) Locating computer clubs in multicultural neighborhoods: How collaborative project work fosters integration processes, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 69(10), p. 669-678, Academic Press, url, doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2010.12.007
2010
(2010) "All of a sudden we had this dialogue...": Intercultural computer clubs’ contribution to sustainable integration, Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration - ICIC '10, p. 93-102, url, doi:10.1145/1841853.1841868
(2010) How the Social Structure of Intercultural Computer Clubs Fosters Interactive Storytelling, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, p. 368-371, New York, NY, USA: ACM, url, doi:10.1145/1810543.1810616
2009
(2009) First Steps: Social and Technical Implications Establishing a Mesh Network Within an Inter-cultural Community, Proceedings of the 2009 International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, p. 305-308, New York, NY, USA: ACM, url, doi:10.1145/1499224.1499283
(2009) Learning support through scaffolding collaborative project work, Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computer supported collaborative learning - Volume 2, p. 73-75
(2009) How come_IN computer clubs may foster collaboration in an intercultural neighborhood, Workshop on Culture and Technologies for Social Interaction at INTERACT, pdf
(2009) How the design of the OLPC XO-1 may support the social structure of an intercultural community, Workshop on Community Practices and Locative Media at MobileHCI
(2009) Social-Technical Implications Establishing a Mesh Network within an Inter-Cultural Neighborhood, Workshop on Community Practices and Locative Media at MobileHCI, pdf
2008
(2008) Spielerisches Konstruieren im virtuellen Medium: Digitale Baukästen in interkulturellen Computer Clubs, Navigationen 8(1), p. 103-121, pdf
(2008) Fostering communities in urban multi-cultural neighbourhoods: some methodological reflections, Urban Informatics: Community Integration and Implementation., Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
2007
(2007) Working in an Inter-Cultural Computer Club: Effects on Identity and Role Affiliation, IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet 5(2), p. 100-112
(2007) come_IN: Identity and Role Affiliation mediated by an Inter-Cultural Computer Club, Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Society 2007, July 3-6, p. 144-151
2006
(2006) come_IN: Die Integration von türkisch-stämmigen Deutschen am Beispiel eines misch-kulturellen Computerclubs (Masterarbeit), pdf
2005
(2005) Bridging among ethnic communities by cross-cultural communities of practice, Proceedings of the 2nd Communities and Technologies Conference, C and T 2005(June), p. 377-396, doi:10.1007/1-4020-3591-8-20
2003
(2003) Come_In: Using Computers to Foster the Integration of Migrant Communities, ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin 24(3), p. 66-72