App Inventor - Related research

A intro lecture about EdTech in general, and more specifically about the many influences that educational research has had on the implementation of App Inventor and other similar systems.

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1. App Inventor - Related Research josmasflores@gmail.com MIT 6.s198 Agenda: - Discussion: What is App Inventor? - Related Research
2. What is App Inventor? ?
3. Educational Research This book is an exercise in an applied genetic epistemology expanded beyond Piaget's cognitive emphasis to include a concern with the affective (Mindstorms, Papert 1980)
4. Educational Research II http://doblelol.com/uploads/18/top-funny-youtube-videos.jpg
5. Transfer of Learning http://labx.media.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2013/09/Week4-MResnick.pdf
6. Piaget - Constructivism http://labx.media.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2013/09/Week4-MResnick.pdf
7. Children Developmental Stages http://www.everydaylanguagelearner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/juggling-language-11-1024x694.jpg http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~cdasnow/png/combinatorial_optimization.png Language Learning : Concrete Thinking (age < 6) Combinatorial Thinking : Formal Thinking (age ~12)
8. Papert - Constructionism http://labx.media.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2013/09/Week4-MResnick.pdf
9. Papert - Constructionism Our culture is poor in models of systematic procedure (Mindstorms, 1980)
10. Computers can provide more complex models http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_QX--n7Fiww/UaHHPYPnzYI/AAAAAAAAANk/lJxzKSNnXRs/s1600/Apple_I_Computer.jpg
11. Why is this important? How Schools Kill Creativity: Sir Ken Robinson
12. School: Get it / Don’t Get it
13. Fear of learning "I can't learn French, I don't have an ear for languages" "I could never be a businessman, I don't have a head for figures" "I can't get the hang of parallel skiing, I never was coordinated"
14. Debugging Programming is a much more self-directed activity, and we rarely get it right the first time, but in our culture that is OK; it's not OK in other cultural contexts though, for instance in School.
15. Ed Tech L.A. students breach School iPad’s Security "You can't do nothing with them[iPads]," she said. "You just carry them around."
16. Ed Tech II In LOGO, the child programs the computer.
17. My take on this as a non-expert... I Development of formal thinking to change the world. Thinking articulately about Thinking.
18. My take on this as a non-expert... II Changing the school model: Learning about how to Learn. Self-directed learning: Taking charge of your own learning instead of relying on an external source of orders such as a teacher.
19. My take on this as a non-expert... III Powerful ideas are ideas with leverage: they help you make sense of the world. (Some reflections on designing construction kits for kids, Silverman & Resnick, 2005)
20. Constructionism - Other ideas • Divide between Humanities and Science • Implementation of Programming Environments: Low floor- High ceiling (Wide Walls) • Object to think with - Intersection: Cultural presence - Embedded knowledge - Personal identification. • Passion finding; Embodiment; Engagement. • 8 big ideas behind the Constructionist Learning Lab. Nothing important works the first time.
21. App Inventor : Many influences • Logo - Turtles • Scratch • Alice - Storytelling Alice • Simple
22. What do you want App Inventor to be? ?
23. Fin! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License . Please use the Open Source group for discussion.