MIT App Inventor: Enabling Personal Mobile Computing

Presentation at the PROMOTO2013 workshop as part of SPLASHCONF, Indianapolis - Indiana

The paper can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2830

Transcript

1. MIT App Inventor: Enabling Personal Mobile Computing
2. About me José Dominguez ~ Visiting Scientist @josmasflores https://github.com/josmas http://josmasflores.blogspot.com
3. App Inventor ~ MIT App Inventor + + Open Sourced in 2012 : github.com/mit- cml/appinventor-sources
4. App Inventor: Principal Investigator Hal Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
5. App Inventor ~ MIT App Inventor + + Open Sourced in 2012 : github.com/mit- cml/appinventor-sources
6. Logo ~ Turtle Graphics
7. Constructionism Individual learners construct mental models to understand the world around them. Implement Programming Environments that are Low Floor and High Ceiling (with Wide Walls).
8. App Inventor : Many influences • Logo - Turtles • Scratch • Alice - Storytelling Alice • Simple
9. three sample apps
10. Low Floor
11. A simple app
12. Wide Walls
13. app + arduino
14. High Ceiling
15. A more advanced app
16. demo http://appinventor.mit.edu/
17. Community Community of Users ~ Education Team Community of Developers ~ Development Team
18. Research in Progress ~ Education Team Computational Thinking Through Mobile Computing (NFS funded)
19. Research in Progress ~ Development Team Sensor Integration and Harnessing Personal Data Static Analysis of App Inventor Projects
20. Research in Progress ~ Development Team II Bridging Cognitive Apprenticeship and Communities of Practice through Ecological Psychology.
21. Research in Progress ~ Development Team III