[eas_cs_seminars] 14th March 2017

[Luca Rossi]

Dear all,

The next CS seminar will be held next Tuesday (14/03) in MB220 from 2pm to
3pm. Dr. Mike Joy and Dr. Meurig Beynon (University of Warwick) will give a
talk titled "CONSTRUIT!" (see abstract below).

Best,
Luca

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CONSTRUIT! is a three year Erasmus+ project, involving six partners led by
the University of Warwick and scheduled for completion in August 2017, on
the theme of "Making construals as a new digital skill for creating
interactive open educational resources".

Where programs reflect the practices of a mind following rules, construals
are artefacts developed by a mind making sense of a situation. In this
respect, a construal is well-matched to the unconventional role that
Seymour Papert had in mind for programs in his constructionist approach to
learning: that of objects-to-think-with whose construction obliges the
learner to reflect on the basis for their knowledge and in that process
enrich their domain understanding.

This seminar will discuss the significance of making construals in relation
to three research topics motivated by Papert's work:

1) principles and practices that support constructionism;
2) objects-to-think-with as a basis for novel learning resources;
3) exploiting constructionist principles in the classroom and curriculum.

It will take the form of a reflective illustrated account of the work that
has been done towards developing, deploying and evaluating techniques and
environments for making construals in the course of CONSTRUIT!.

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-- 
Luca Rossi

Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Aston University
Web: http://www.cs.aston.ac.uk/~rossil/ <http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/>
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