<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Luca</div><div><br></div><div>===</div><div><br></div><div>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".</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>This seminar will discuss the significance of making construals in relation to three research topics motivated by Papert's work:</div><div><br></div><div>1) principles and practices that support constructionism;</div><div>2) objects-to-think-with as a basis for novel learning resources;</div><div>3) exploiting constructionist principles in the classroom and curriculum.</div><div><br></div><div>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!.</div><div><br></div><div>===<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Luca Rossi</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Lecturer in Computer Science</div><div dir="ltr">School of Engineering and Applied Science</div><div dir="ltr">Aston University</div><div dir="ltr">Web: <a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.aston.ac.uk/~rossil/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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