Girls Teaching Girls: Free-Choice Collaborative Learning Through Social Computing

This extended abstract is a brief overview of a dissertation project involving collaborative learning through debugging tasks and the participatory design of instructional activities in computing for This extended abstract is a brief overview of a dissertation project involving collaborative learning through debugging tasks and the participatory design of instructional activities in computing for young girls.young girls.

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