Publications

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Lachney, M., Yadav, A., Drazin, M., Allen, M.C., Babbitt, W (2021) Culturally Responsive Debugging: a Method to Support Cultural Experts’ Early Engagement with Code. Tech Trends, pp. 1 – 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-021-00618-4

Lachney, M., Eglash, R., Bennett, A., Babbitt, W., Foy, L., Drazin, M., Rich, K. (2021) pH Empowered: Community Participation in Culturally Responsive Computing Education. Learning Media and Technology, 46(3) pp. 333 – 354. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.1891421

Babbitt, W., Lachney, M. (2021) Two Concepts of Enoughness as Organizing Design Principles for Generative STEM Education and Culturally Situated Design Tools. New Design Ideas Special Issue on Generative Justice in Design, 5(1) pp. 81-93. http://jomardpublishing.com/UploadFiles/Files/journals/NDI/V5N1/Babbitt_Lachney.pdf

Eglash, R., Robert, L., Bennett, A., Robinson, K.P., Lachney, M., Babbitt, W. (2020) Automation for the Artisanal Economy: Enhancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Crafting Professionals with Human-Machine Collaboration. AI & Society, 35(3), pp. 595 – 609. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-019-00915-w

Eglash, R., Bennett, A., Babbitt, W., Lachney, M., Reinhardt, M. (2020) Decolonizing Posthumanism: Indigenous Material Agency in Generative STEM. British Journal of Educational Technology, 51(4), pp. 1334 – 1353. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12963.

Eglash, R., Lachney, M., Babbitt, W., Bennett, A., Reinhardt, M., Davis, J. (2020) Decolonizing Education with Anishinaabe Arcs: Generative STEM as a Path to Indigenous Futurity. Educational Technology Research and Development 68, 1569 – 1593. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-019-09728-6

Eglash, R., Bennett, A., Lachney, M., Babbitt, W. (2020) Race-positive Design: A Generative Approach to Decolonizing Computing. Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM CHI2020.

Babbitt, W., Lachney, M., Bennett, A., & Eglash, R. (2019) Combining Ethnocomputing and Physical Making in a Middle School Math Classroom: A Controlled Study of Indigenous and Vernacular Quilt Simulations. In Revision.

Lachney, M., Babbitt, W., Bennett, A., & Eglash, R. (2019). Generative computing: African-American cosmetology as a link between computing education and community wealth. Interactive Learning Environments, 14(1), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2019.1636087

Eglash, R., Lachney, M., Babbitt, W., Reinhardt, M., Davis, J. (2018) Decolonizing Education with Anishinaabe Arcs: Generative STEM as a Path to Indigenous Futurity. In review.

Bennett, A., Eglash, R., Lachney, M., Babbitt, W. (2016) In Mahesh Raisinghani (Ed.) Revolutionizing Education through Web-Based Instruction. Design Agency: Diversifying Computer Science at the Intersections of Creativity and Culture. Advances in Education Technologies and Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series, pp. 35-56. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9932-8

Eglash, R., Babbitt, W., Bennett, A., Bennett, K., Callahan, B., Davis, J., et al. (2016) Culturally Situated Design Tools: Generative Justice as a Foundation for STEM Diversity. In Yolanda Rankin, Y. and Thomas, J. Moving Students of Color from Consumers to Producers of Technology. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGC Global, 132-151.

Lachney, M., Babbitt, W., Eglash, R. (2016) Software Design in the “Construction Genre” of Learning Technology: Content Aware Versus Content Agnostic. Computational Cultures, a Journal of Software Studies (http://computationalculture.net/article/software-design-in-the-construction-genre-of-learning-technology-content-aware-versus-content-agnostic)

Babbitt, W. Lachney, M. Bulley, E., and Eglash R. (2015) Adinkra Mathematics: A Study of Ethnocomputing in Ghana. REMIE – Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational Research, 5(2), 110-135.

2014 Dissertation:

Ethnocomputing: the Design and Assessment of Culture-Based Learning Software for Math and Computing Education. William Babbitt.

Bennett, A., Eglash, R. Lachney, M., Babbitt, W. Design Agency: Diversifying Computer Science at the Intersections of Creativity and Culture. In Revolutionizing Education through WebBased Instruction (forthcoming).

Babbitt, W., Lachney, M., Bulley, E. and Eglash, R. Adinkra Mathematics: A study of ethnocomputing in Ghana. REMIE - Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational Research Vol. 5 No. 2 June 2015 pp. 110-135.

Poirier, L. Eglash, R. Babbitt, W. and "Adinkra symbols". Pp. 61-74 in Barta, J, Eglash, R and Barkley, C. Math Is a Verb: Using and Learning Mathematics with Cultures around the World. Reston VA: NCTM 2014.

2013 Dissertation proposal:
Ethnocomputing: a mental model approach to the design and assessment of computational thinking in a culture-based learning environment. William Babbitt.

2012 Conference paper:
An analysis of the programmable Culturally Situated Design Tools from an HCI perspective. William Babbitt.

Alternative Forms of Kowing in Mathematics

2012 Book chapter:


Babbitt, W., Lyles, D., Eglash, R. (2011) From Ethnomathematics to Ethnocomputing: indigenous algorithms in traditional context and contemporary simulation. In Alternative forms of knowing (in) mathematics: Celebrations of Diversity of mathematical Practices, Sense Publishers.​