Publications & Presentations
Journal Papers
Learning AI Auditing: A Case Study of Teenagers Auditing a Generative AI Model
Luis Morales-Navarro, Michelle Gan, Evelyn Yu, Lauren Vogelstein, Yasmin B. Kafai, & Danaé Metaxa | 2025
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW)
High School Students Building babyGPTs: Engaging in Data Practices and Addressing Ethical Issues Through the Construction of Generative Language Models
Luis Morales-Navarro, Daniel J. Noh, & Yasmin B. Kafai | 2025
International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction
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
Building babyGPTs: Youth Engaging in Data Practices and Ethical Considerations through the Construction of Generative Language Models
Luis Morales-Navarro, Daniel J. Noh, & Yasmin B. Kafai | 2025
Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM Interaction Design and Children | Reykjavík, Iceland
Youth as Advisors in Participatory Design: Situating Teens’ Expertise in Everyday Algorithm Auditing with Teachers and Researchers
Daniel J. Noh, Deborah A. Fields, Luis Morales-Navarro, Alexis M. Cabrera-Sutch, Yasmin B. Kafai, & Danaé Metaxa | 2025
Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM Interaction Design and Children | Reykjavík, Iceland
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
🏅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
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
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