Eftychia Roumelioti
Rosella Gennari
Maristella Matera
ABSTRACT
Supporting children's learning and competence in technology design is a way to empower them. This means enabling them to continue designing in the future, independently. In this paper, a series of workshops is presented, structured around a board game, which aims to support children in becoming competent enough so as to design on their own.
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- Towards Making Children Independent in Design
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