Published Work

Andrew Bennett, Maya Israel, Joanne Barrett, Debra "Kelly" Thomas, and Jason McKenna. (2024). Special Education Teachers Evaluating the Accessibility of CS Educational Robotics. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1566–1567. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626253.3635576

Blake, A.V., Harter, L., McKenna, J. (2023). Using Photo-Journals to Formatively Evaluate Elementary Student Robotic Construction. In: Hokanson, B., Schmidt, M., Exter, M.E., Tawfik, A.A., Earnshaw, Y. (eds) Formative Design in Learning. Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41950-8_23

Y. Lin, D. Weintrop, A. Selkowitz and J. McKenna,(2023) "It's as Easy as 123: Multiple Programming Approaches on a Single Device to Support Novices," IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Washington, DC, USA, 2023, pp. 263-265, doi: 10.1109/VL-HCC57772.2023.00048.

Y. Lin, D. Weintrop and J. McKenna, (2023) "Coder and Coder Cards: A Novel Tangible Programming Approach for Young Programmers," IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Washington, DC, USA, 2023, pp. 25-30, doi: 10.1109/VL-HCC57772.2023.00011

Lin, Y., Weintrop, D. & McKenna, J. (Accepted, 2023). Switch Mode: Building a middle ground between Block-based and Text-based programming. Paper presented at Learning, Design & Technology 2023. Chicago, IL, USA.

Lin, Y., Weintrop, D. & McKenna, J. (2023). Lowering the Floor with VEX123: Bridging Physical and Virtual Programming for Young Learners. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2023. Chicago, IL.

Lin, Y., Weintrop, D. & McKenna, J. (2023). Switch Mode: Scaffolding Learners From Block-Based to Text-Based Programming. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2023. Chicago, IL.

Lin, Y., Weintrop, D. & McKenna, J. (2023). Switch Mode: A Visual Programming Approach for Transitioning from Block-based to Text-based Programming. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (pp. 1262-1262). doi: 10.1145/3545947.3573235

Lin, Y., Weintrop, D. & McKenna, J. (2023). Switch-Mode: Authoring Text-based Programming in Block-based Programming Environment. Paper presented at 2023 FETC Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA.

Harter, L., McKenna, J. & Van Campenhout, R. (2023). Teacher Perceptions of an Educational Robotics Professional Development Program. In E. Langran, P. Christensen & J. Sanson (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 2062-2068). New Orleans, LA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

Lin, Y., Weintrop, D. & McKenna, J. (July 2022). Mixed Mode: A New Approach to Bridging Block-based and Text-based Programming. Paper presented at 2022 CSTA Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.

Harter, L. & McKenna, J. (June 2022). “Fostering Communities of Practice: Insights from an Online Educational Robotics Professional Development Pilot.” Paper presented at the Proceedings of the IARIA 2022, Porto, Portugal,

Lin, Y., Weintrop, D. & McKenna, J. (May 2022). Designing a Physical Robot for Youth Supporting Multiple Programming Approaches. Paper presented at the University of Maryland 39th Annual HCIL Symposium. College Park, MD.

Lin, Y., Weintrop, D. & McKenna, J. (May 2022). Supporting Multiple Programming Approaches in Early Elementary School Computer Science Education. Poster presented at 2022 Conference on Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), Philadelphia, PA.

Sirinterlikci, A., Harter, L., McKenna, J. (June 2022). Learning Robot VEX V5 Workcell: Industrial Robotic Arm Model for STEM Education presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Minneapolis, MN.

Sirinterlikci, A., Harter, L., McKenna, J., Lin, Y., & Oravec, R. (June 2022). Learning Robot Programming Anywhere: VEXcode VR. Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Minneapolis, MN.

McKenna, J., Smith, A., Balasubramanian, R. (2018) Why teach Robotics - Exploring the potential applications of robotics in a classroom setting

McKenna, J., Smith, A. (2018). Algorithms in Computational Thinking

Flot, J., McKenna, J., Shoop, R. (2016). Helping Students Build Conceptual Models – the Lost Manual. Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy, Pittsburgh, PA. 

Flot, J., Higashi, R., McKenna, J., Shoop, R., Witherspoon, E. (July 2016) Using Model Eliciting Activities to Engage Students in Computational Thinking Practices Presented at the High Impact Technology Exchange Conference (2016 HI TEC), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.