Why?

The Center vision is to empower children and youth to understand the impacts of digital technology, co-create digital technologies and participate constructively and critically as democratic citizens in the digitized society.

How?

In 2024-2028 the research center aims to develop:

• An overview of existing research results and policy papers and communicate research studies from the research center to international researchers and policymakers (WPA)
• Strategies, tools and resources for teachers to support students’ computational empowerment competences (WPB)
• A national and interdisciplinary research community that unites researchers, teachers, and teacher trainers towards a shared Danish approach to Technology Comprehension

Project Contribution:

The center (WP C) will host a national conference and several seminars and more than 12 peer-reviewed articles on computational empowerment including:

• Methods for participatory development with teachers and students (WPB)
• Progress through out K12 in competence goals (B1.1)
• Formative assessment criteria (B1.2)
• Teaching strategies and guidelines for diversity (B1.3)
• Teaching tools and principles for Math (B2.1), Danish (B2.2), and Technology comprehension, and informatics (B2.3)
• New education technology, and principles for technology development (B3.1)
• Resources and strategies for scaling outcomes and national outreach (B3.2)

Research areas

PD, IDC, CHI, IJCCI, Design studies, FACCT

Publication category

Child-Computer Interaction, Computing Education Research, Technology education

Funding Partners

Novo Nordisk Foundation NNF23SA0082894 

Lundbeck Foundation R419-2022-1261. 

VILLUM FONDEN # VELUX FONDEN (THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS) 54607