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  1. Unpacking Approaches to Learning and Teaching Machine Learning in K-12 Education: Transparency, Ethics, and Design Activities

    Article • September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  2. "It's smart and it's stupid:" Youth's conflicting perspectives on LLMs' language comprehension and ethics

    Article • September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai, Phillip Gao

  3. Youth as Peer Auditors: Engaging Teenagers with Algorithm Auditing of Machine Learning Applications

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  4. Not Just Training, Also Testing: High School Youths' Perspective-Taking through Peer Testing Machine Learning-Powered Applications

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  5. Failure Artifact Scenarios to Understand High School Students' Growth in Troubleshooting Physical Computing Projects

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai, Deepali Barapatre

  6. Empowering the Next Generation of Computational Thinkers

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  7. When Good Gets Better: Experienced Computer Science Teachers? Reflections on implementing E-textiles in their Classrooms as a Vehicle for Advancing Equity

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  8. Is Computational Empowerment Promoted in the Hour of Code? Analyzing Opportunities for Conceptual, Creative, and Critical Engagement in the Design of Introductory Computing Activities

    Article • November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  9. Creative Entrances to Co-Design

    Article • August 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal, Yasmin Kafai

  10. Investigating Creative and Critical Engagement with Computing in the Hour of Code (Practical Report)

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    GAYITHRI JAYATHIRTHA, Yasmin Kafai

  11. Notional Machines in a Semester-long Introductory Physical Computing High School Unit

    Article • August 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    GAYITHRI JAYATHIRTHA, Yasmin Kafai

  12. Program Comprehension with Physical Computing: A Structure, Function, and Behavior Analysis of Think-Alouds with High School Students

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  13. Interactive Stitch Sampler

    Article • Digital Threats Research and Practice, November 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    GAYITHRI JAYATHIRTHA, Yasmin Kafai

  14. A Redesigned Reconstruction Kit for Rapid Collaborative Debugging and Designing of E-Textiles

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai, Yuhan Lin

  15. When a Glove Becomes a Gun

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    GAYITHRI JAYATHIRTHA, Yasmin Kafai

  16. Tools for Biomakers

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  17. Looking Ahead

    Article • February 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  18. From theory bias to theory dialogue

    Article • ACM Inroads, February 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  19. From Theory Bias to Theory Dialogue

    Article • July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  20. Communicating computational concepts and practices within high school students’ portfolios of making electronic textiles

    Article • Interactive Learning Environments, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Yasmin Kafai

  21. Stitching the Loop with Electronic Textiles

    Article • February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai, Michael Giang

  22. Electronic Textiles in Computer Science Education

    Article • February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  23. Rethinking Debugging as Productive Failure for CS Education

    Article • February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  24. Collaborative Coding and Composing of JazzHands

    Article • February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  25. Understanding High School Students' Reading, Remixing, and Writing Codeable Circuits for Electronic Textiles

    Article • March 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  26. Deconstruction Kits for Learning

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  27. Collaborative Maker Activities in the Classroom

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  28. Boys' Needlework

    Article • August 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  29. Hi-Lo tech games

    Article • June 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  30. Ethnocomputing with electronic textiles

    Article • March 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai

  31. A Crafts-Oriented Approach to Computing in High School

    Article • Digital Threats Research and Practice, March 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yasmin Kafai