{"id":902,"date":"2018-11-27T13:40:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/?page_id=902"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:18:46","slug":"watch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop for African-American Thinking Computationally and Historically (WATCH)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><br><table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100.04%; height: 296px;\" border=\"0\"><br><tbody><br><tr style=\"height: 213px;\"><br><td style=\"width: 100%; height: 213px;\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-898 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/737\/2018\/11\/website-300x165.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/737\/2018\/11\/website-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/737\/2018\/11\/website.png 637w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/td><br><\/tr><br><tr style=\"height: 83px;\"><br><td style=\"width: 100%; height: 83px;\"><br><h2>Researchers\u00a0<\/h2><br><ul><br><li><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/yerika-jimenez\/\">Yerika Jimenez<\/a><\/li><br><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Penelope_Vargas\">Dr. Penelope Vargas<\/a><\/li><br><li><a href=\"https:\/\/education.missouri.edu\/person\/lagarrett-king\/\">Dr. LaGarrett J. King\u00a0<\/a><\/li><br><li><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/christina-gardner-mccune\/\">Dr. Christina Gardner-McCune<\/a><\/li><br><\/ul><br><\/td><br><\/tr><br><\/tbody><br><\/table><br><\/td><td><br><h2>Description<\/h2><br><p>This project seeks to investigate how African American students\u2019 engagement with technology through mobile apps and site visits to African American historical sites can promote learning local history, historical practices, and computer science. Through a combination of critical historical analysis, fieldwork, and computational artifact creation, the WATCH program seeks to improve history education and address equity issues concerning computational learning.<\/p><br><\/td><\/tr><tr><td colspan=\"2\"><br><h3>\u00a0Journal<\/h3><br><ul><br><li>King, L. J., Gardner-McCune, C., Vargas, P., &amp; Jimenez, Y., (2013). \u201cRe-Discovering and Re-Creating African American Historical Accounts through Mobile Apps: The role of mobile technology in history education\u201d, The Journal of Social Studies Research (2014).<\/li><br><\/ul><br><h3>Book Chapter<\/h3><br><ul><br><li>Gardner-McCune, C. and Jimenez, Y. Historical App Developers: Integrating CS into K-12 through Cross-Disciplinary Projects in Moving Students of Color from Consumers to Producers of Technology, 1st ed. Hershey: IGI Global, 2017.<\/li><br><\/ul><br><h3>Peer Reviewed Posters<\/h3><br><ul><br><li>Jimenez, Y., &amp; Gardner-McCune, C. (2015, August). Using App inventor &amp; history as a gateway to engage African American students in computer science. In Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), 2015 (pp. 1-2). IEEE.<\/li><br><li>Jimenez, Y., and Gardner-McCune, C., 2014. \u201cUsing App Inventor to Engage African American Students,\u201d Grace Hopper Computing Conference, October 8-10, 2014, Phoenix, AZ.<\/li><br><\/ul><br><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers\u00a0 Yerika Jimenez Dr. Penelope Vargas Dr. LaGarrett J. King\u00a0 Dr. Christina Gardner-McCune Description This project seeks to investigate how African American students\u2019 engagement with technology through mobile apps and site visits to African American historical sites can promote learning local history, historical practices, and computer science. 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