The joint project for the two courses is a working prototype of a constructionist educational technology, to be displayed at the BB&A Expo, and an accompanying paper suitable for submission to IDC as a Demo Paper. In 2017, 4 papers from BB&A students (as well as several from instructors) were accepted to IDC. Final projects have also gone on to become commercial products. The following IDC demo papers are excellent examples for your own final project:

• DiMBI: An Interface to Connect People to Math's Big Ideas of Patterns and Relations (citation)
• Tuk Tuk: A Block-Based Programming Game (citation)
• The Conference of the Birds: A Collaborative Storytelling Environment for Literacy Development (citation)
• Sonification Blocks: A Block-Based Programming Environment For Embodied Data Sonification (citation)

You are not required to submit your final project to IDC, but we encourage you to! The submission deadline is several weeks after the end of class, which gives you time to revise your work. If you are interested in including a BB&A teacher as a co-author, we can support your revision process after the class ends.

Class

The class will prepare you to write a paper which presents your project and grounds its design in educational theory.

Lab

The lab will support you in building a final prototype of your project to be presented at the BB&A Expo.