09.15-10.30

Session 1: Posing the problem

• What is the problem? Semantic ascent and the 'explanatory gap'
• David Gooding and Evan Thompson
• The Construit environment for making construals
• Faraday and the computer
• Making digital construals: some illustrative examples

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11.00-12.30

Session 2: Practicalities and Programs

• Seymour Papert and Charles Crook on constructionism
• Modelling a room in Logo and Construit
• Construals as 'objects-to-think-with'
• Making construals for learning and software development

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13.30-15.00

Session 3: An Experiential Perspective

• From programs to construals
• A broader view of computing
• Making construals as making connections
• Construals as 'objects-to-converse-with'
• William James's radical empiricism

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Resources

Making construals [slides]

Faraday and the computer

The Construit environment

The internal combustion engine

Adventures in a Lift

Mindstorms Revisited:

• paper and slides

The room in Logo & in Construit

The penny rolling construals:

• one inspired by gears
• Papert's polygonal penny rolling construal

A purse construal

The OXO laboratory

From programs to construals

The 'Picasso' construal: in Forth/Logo and in Construit

Computer Science and EM

Making a construal from scratch
Construing the Moment
The Digit-Cabinet construal
The Artiphon construal
Solar system and 3D Cardboard

Radical Empiricism