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App Inventor - Related Research
josmasflores@gmail.com
MIT 6.s198
Agenda:
- Discussion: What is App Inventor?
- Related Research
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What is App Inventor?
?
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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)
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Educational Research II
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Transfer of Learning
http://labx.media.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2013/09/Week4-MResnick.pdf
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Piaget - Constructivism
http://labx.media.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2013/09/Week4-MResnick.pdf
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Children Developmental Stages
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Language Learning : Concrete Thinking (age < 6) Combinatorial Thinking : Formal Thinking (age ~12)
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Papert - Constructionism
http://labx.media.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2013/09/Week4-MResnick.pdf
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Papert - Constructionism
Our culture is poor in
models of systematic
procedure
(Mindstorms, 1980)
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Computers can provide more complex models
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Why is this important?
How Schools Kill Creativity: Sir Ken Robinson
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School: Get it / Don’t Get it
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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"
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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.
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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."
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Ed Tech II
In LOGO, the child programs the computer.
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My take on this as a non-expert... I
Development of formal thinking to change the world.
Thinking articulately about Thinking.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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App Inventor : Many influences
● Logo - Turtles
● Scratch
● Alice - Storytelling Alice
● Simple
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What do you want App Inventor to be?
?
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Fin!
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