‹Programming› 2022
Mon 11 - Thu 14 April 2022

Continuing the Salon des Refusés and Convivial Computing Salon tracks from previous years, the Committee is pleased to announce a Boxer-themed workshop to be hosted at <Programming> 2022.

Boxer, initiated by Andy diSessa and Hal Abelson as a breakaway from the Logo programming group at MIT in 1978, is arguably the world’s greatest success in creating a malleable, reconstructible, convivial computing medium. Attested through many years of successful deployments in schools throughout the 80s and 90s, Boxer was the subject of three major NSF grants and a landmark text, Changing Minds, written by Andy DiSessa in 2000, setting out a cultural manifesto for two-way computational literacies mediated by reconstructible media.

The Boxer Reconstruction Project, directed by the diSessa Family Foundation, for the last few years has been steadily modernising and stabilising the Boxer codebase to run on modern systems, leading to Boxer Sunrise at https://boxer-project.github.io/.

Dates
Plenary
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Mon 21 Mar

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12:00 - 13:30
12:00
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

13:30 - 15:00
The Boxer ExperienceBoxer Salon at Workshop I
Chair(s): Antranig Basman Raising the Floor - International
13:30
10m
Talk
Welcome and Introduction to Boxer
Boxer Salon
Antranig Basman Raising the Floor - International
13:40
15m
Demonstration
Hands-on with BoxerDemo
Boxer Salon
Steven Githens diSessa Family Foundation
13:55
20m
Talk
The Boxer ExperienceBoxer Invited Talk
Boxer Salon
A: Andrea A. diSessa Graduate School of Education, University of California at Berkeley
14:15
15m
Talk
Boxer Down-Under
Boxer Salon
Liddy Nevile Sunrise Research Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
14:30
10m
Talk
Chartworld in the Classroom
Boxer Salon
14:40
20m
Panel
Boxer Microworlds of Our Time
Boxer Salon

15:00 - 15:30
Coffee breakCatering at Coffee Lounge
15:00
30m
Coffee break
Coffee break
Catering

15:30 - 17:00
Boxer and Education IBoxer Salon at Workshop I
Chair(s): Deborah Tatar Virginia Tech, USA
15:30
20m
Talk
Boxer: A Teacher's Experience
Boxer Salon
15:50
15m
Talk
Boxer: An appreciation in five inventions
Boxer Salon
Chris Hancock Tertl Consulting
16:10
20m
Talk
Automatic Programming and Education
Boxer Salon
Clayton Lewis University of Colorado Boulder
16:30
30m
Panel
Roles for Boxer in Education and Beyond
Boxer Salon

Tue 22 Mar

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12:00 - 13:30
12:00
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

13:30 - 15:00
Boxer and Education IIBoxer Salon at Workshop I
Chair(s): Clayton Lewis University of Colorado Boulder
13:30
20m
Talk
Boxer and Change
Boxer Salon
Deborah Tatar Virginia Tech, USA
13:50
20m
Talk
Creating New Programming Experiences Inspired by Boxer for Developing Computationally Literate Society
Boxer Salon
Mark Guzdial University of Michigan
14:10
20m
Talk
Some Humbling Lessons from a Reconstructible Computational Medium
Boxer Salon
Flávio Azevedo STEM Education The University of Texas at Austin
14:30
30m
Panel
Learning from Boxer's Experiences
Boxer Salon

15:00 - 15:30
Coffee breakCatering at Coffee Lounge
15:00
30m
Coffee break
Coffee break
Catering

15:30 - 17:00
Implementing BoxerBoxer Salon at Workshop I
Chair(s): Jonathan Edwards Massachusetts Institute of Technology
15:30
20m
Talk
BoxerJS: Reflections on a JavaScript Boxer implementation
Boxer Salon
Bruce Sherin Northwestern University, USA
15:50
20m
Talk
On the Generality of Boxer Principles of Spatial Metaphor and Naive Realism
Boxer Salon
Jeremy Roschelle Digital Promise
16:10
10m
Talk
Boxer Sunrise Project Update
Boxer Salon
Steven Githens diSessa Family Foundation
16:20
10m
Talk
Boxer and the Tradition of Materialised Programming
Boxer Salon
Antranig Basman Raising the Floor - International
16:30
10m
Talk
Boxer and the "Time of Possibility"
Boxer Salon
Luke Church University of Cambridge | Lund University | Lark Systems
16:40
20m
Panel
How can Boxer be Built?
Boxer Salon

Call for Papers/Posters/Demonstrations/Reflections

Our workshop invites anyone who has been involved with Boxer over the years, or anyone who takes an interest in its future evolution, to submit short or long papers, videos, reflections, or any other kind of artefact addressing any of the following:

  • Experiences in the classroom using Boxer as a vehicle for building scientific understanding

  • Experiences as part of the Boxer ecosystem, as producers, consumers, or mediators of Boxer microworlds or implementation patterns

  • Experiences as implementors of Boxer, and reflections on its impact on their programming philosophy or design tastes over the years

  • Reflections on Boxer’s model of naive realism, and its relation to similar systems under development today

  • Reflections on the nature of computational literacy, and its convivial idiom - how to bring the cultures of creators and consumers closer together through reconstructible media such as Boxer

  • Reflections on what you find most important or interesting about Boxer as a system, or about the larger social/psychological framings of Boxer work?

If your submission takes the form of a paper and you would like it to appear in the conference post-proceedings, please adhere to the ACM Format:

Formatting your paper in LaTeX: please use the acmart package v1.77 or newer. Please use the ‘sigconf’ style by using the following LaTeX class configuration: \documentclass[sigconf,screen]{acmart}

Formatting your paper in Word: please download the template from the ACM format site. Please use the ‘sigconf’ style by selecting the right template.

Questions? Use the Boxer Salon contact form.