Publications & Presentations
Journal Papers
Assessing changes in thinking about troubleshooting in physical computing: a clinical interview protocol with failure artifact scenarios
Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, & Deepali Barapatre | 2025
Information & Learning Sciences
Co-ML: Collaborative Machine Learning Model Building for Developing Dataset Design Practices
Tiffany Tseng, Matt J. Davidson, Luis Morales-Navarro, Jennifer King Chen, Victoria Delaney, Mark Leibowitz, Jazbo Beason, & R. Benjamin Shapiro | 2024
ACM Transactions on Computing Education
Understanding Growth Mindset Practices in an Introductory Physical Computing Classroom: High School Students' Engagement with Debugging by Design Activities
Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, & Yasmin B. Kafai | 2024
Computer Science Education
Connecting Beliefs, Mindsets, Anxiety, and Self-Efficacy in Computer Science Learning: An Instrument for Capturing Secondary School Students’ Self-Beliefs
Luis Morales-Navarro, Michael Giang, Deborah A. Fields, & Yasmin B. Kafai | 2023
Computer Science Education
The village that learns: A learning journey across intraventions and domains over two decades in a rural Thai community
Deborah A. Fields, Luis Morales-Navarro, & Paulo Blikstein | 2022
Mind, Culture, and Activity
Debugging by design: A constructionist approach to high school students' crafting and coding of electronic textiles as failure artefacts
Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Luis Morales-Navarro, & Justice T. Walker | 2021
British Journal of Educational Technology
Conference Proceedings
Learning About Algorithm Auditing in Five Steps: Scaffolding How High School Youth Can Systematically and Critically Evaluate Machine Learning Applications
Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai, Lauren Vogelstein, Evelyn Yu, & Danaé Metaxa | 2025
Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
What Can Youth Learn About Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in One Hour? Examining How Hour of Code Activities Address the Five Big Ideas of AI
Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai, Eric Yang, & Asep Suryana| 2025
Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Unpacking Approaches to Learning and Teaching Machine Learning in K-12 Education: Transparency, Ethics, and Design Activities
Luis Morales-Navarro, & Yasmin B. Kafai | 2024
The 19th WiPSCE Conference on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research | Munich, Germany
Youth as Peer Auditors: Engaging Teenagers with Algorithm Auditing of Machine Learning Applications
Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai, Vedya Konda, & Danaé Metaxa | 2024
Interaction Design and Children 2024 | Delft, Netherlands
Investigating Youths’ Everyday Understanding of Machine Learning Applications: a Knowledge-in-Pieces Perspective
Luis Morales-Navarro & Yasmin B. Kafai | 2024
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2024 | Buffalo, NY
Not Just Training, Also Testing: High School Youths’ Perspective-Taking through Peer Testing Machine Learning-Powered Applications
Luis Morales-Navarro, Meghan Shah, & Yasmin B. Kafai | 2024
Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2024), March 20-23, 2024, Portland, OR
Failure Artifact Scenarios to Understand High School Students’ Growth in Troubleshooting Physical Computing Projects
Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, Deepali Barapatre, & Yasmin B. Kafai | 2024
Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2024), March 20-23, 2024, Portland, OR
Constructionist Approaches to Learning Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning: Past, Present, and Future
Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai, Ken Kahn, Ralf Romeike, Tilman Michaeli, Daniella DiPaola, Safinah Ali, Randi Williams, Cynthia Breazeal, Francisco Castro, Kayla DesPortes, Gary Stager, Vishesh Kumar, Herminio Bodon, Marcelo Worsley, Victor R. Lee, Parth Sarin, Benjamin Xie, Jacob Wolf, Isabel Sieh, Deepak Varuvel Dennison, Raycelle Garcia, & Brian Smith | 2023
Proceedings of Fablearn/Constructionism 2023 | New York, NY
Designing for Successful Failures: Constructionist Perspectives on Supporting Personally Meaningful and Culturally Empowered Learning
Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai, Karen Brennan, Paulina Haduong, Varsha Venkatasubramanian, Heike Hennig, Tilman Michaeli, David Weintrop, Jennifer Tsan, Diana Franklin, Yerika Jimenez, Christina Gardner-Mccune, Colin Hennessy Elliott, Michael Schneider, Jeffrey B. Bush, Deborah A. Fields, Mimi Recker, Jessie Nixon, Francisco Castro, Kayla DesPortes, Mike Tissenbaum, Casey Smith, Ashita Bawankule, David Hopping, Nathan Holbert, Isabel Correa, Blake Danzig, David Zikovitz, Paulo Blikstein, & Matthew Berland | 2023
Proceedings of Fablearn/Constructionism 2023 | New York, NY
🏅The Transformational Power of Everyday Representations as Objects-to-Think-With in a Thai Farmer’s Life.
Honorable Mention - Best Paper Nomination
Leah Rosenbaum, Deborah A. Fields, Luis Morales-Navarro, & Paulo Blikstein | 2023
Proceedings of Fablearn/Constructionism 2023 | New York, NY
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Designing Bugs or Doing Another Project: Effects on Secondary Students’ Self-Beliefs in Computer Science
Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, Michael Giang, & Yasmin B. Kafai | 2023
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023 | Montréal, Canada
Making Sense of Machine Learning: Integrating Youth’s Conceptual, Creative, and Critical Understandings of AI
Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai, Francisco Castro, William Payne, Kayla DesPortes, Daniella DiPaola, Randi Williams, Safinah Ali, Cynthia Breazeal, Clifford Lee, Elisabeth Soep, Duri Long, Brian Magerko, Jaemarie Solyst, Amy Ogan, Cansu Tatar, Shiyan Jiang, Jie Chao, Carolyn P. Rosé, & Sepehr Vakil | 2023
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023 | Montréal, Canada
Is Computational Empowerment Promoted in the Hour of Code? Analyzing Opportunities for Conceptual, Creative, and Critical Engagement in the Design of Introductory Computing Activities
Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai, & Katherine T. Gregory | 2022
22nd Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research | Koli, Finland
🏅What makes a good answer? Analyzing the Content Structure of Answers to Stack Overflow’s Most Popular Question
Nominated for Best Student Paper Award
Luis Morales-Navarro, & Amanda Barany | 2022
International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography 2022 | Copenhagen, Denmark.
Reimagining and Co-designing with Youth an Hour of Code Activity for Critical Engagement with Computing
Luis Morales-Navarro, Naomi Thompson, Yasmin B. Kafai, Mia S. Shaw, & Nichole Pinkard | 2022
Interaction Design and Children 2022 | Braga, Portugal
Conceptualizing Three Approaches for Integrating Criticality in K-12 Computing Education
Luis Morales-Navarro, & Yasmin B. Kafai | 2022
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2022. | Hiroshima, Japan
"Keep it in the Village": A 25-Year Journey of Collective Concept Formation Transforming Financial Practices in a Rural Thai Village
Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, & Paulo Blikstein | 2022
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2022. | Hiroshima, Japan
🏆 Growing Mindsets: Debugging by Design as a Learning Environment for Promoting High School Students’ Growth Mindset Practices in a Computer Science Class
Naomi Miyake Award for Best Student Paper
Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, & Yasmin B. Kafai | 2021
Proceedings of the International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting 2021 | Bochum, Germany.
Investigating Creative and Critical Engagement with Computing in the Hour of Code (Practical Report)
Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai, Gayithri Jayathirtha, & Mia S. Shaw | 2021
16th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WiPSCE ’21) | Germany
CodeQuilt: Designing an Hour of Code Activity for Creative and Critical Engagement with Computing
Yasmin B. Kafai, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Mia S. Shaw, & Luis Morales-Navarro | 2021
Interaction Design and Children | Athens, Greece
Redesigning a High School Computing Lesson for Critical Computational Engagement
Gayithri Jayathirtha, Joseph Chipps, & Luis Morales-Navarro | 2021
IEEE Annual Conference on Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT'21) | Virtual
Book Chapters
Conceptualizing Approaches to Critical Computing Education: Inquiry, Design and Reimagination
Luis Morales-Navarro, & Yasmin B. Kafai | 2023
Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research: A Global Perspective
Other Stuff
p5.js and Web Accessibility: Creating Infrastructure for Accessibility in an Open Source Creative Coding Community
Luis Morales-Navarro | 2021
The OSSTA Lecture Series at The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegies Mellon University | Virtual
📼 Video
Accessibility in an Open-Source Community.
Clare Kearney-Volpe, Luis Morales-Navarro | 2019
Processing Community Day | Los Angeles, CA
📼 Video
What Does It Mean to Be a Contributor?
Luis Morales-Navarro | 2023
Processing Community Catalogue | Processing Foundation Press