C5 Blended mobility of higher education students
The principal objective of C5 is to serve as a learning activity to support the development of the resources for Making Construals (MC) that take the form of a curriculum ("the MCC"), an environment ("the MCE") and online materials ("the MCM"). As reference to the project timetable indicates, C5 runs in parallel with the first of a series of Virtual Workshop activities through which we shall engage online students interested in making construals. Attendees at C5 will subsequently be able to continue their MC studies through online engagement for which dedicated support will be available in conjunction with other scheduled teaching, learning and training activities, such as C8 at SciFest in April 2015 and C14 at Edumotiva in May 2015.
The primary focus for C5 is on the most fundamental aspects of the MCC - identified as MC1a and MC1b respectively on p30 of the project proposal:
- the principles and concepts for making construals
- the principles of construal comprehension
The form and content of C5 has been informed by experience and feedback from the initial Intensive Study Programme for teaching staff C1. The learning activities, which will be led by MC experts and monitored by MC consultants, represent an opportunity to give feedback on the current prototype resources for making construals with particular attention to topics MC1a and MC1b. Suggestions that can guide the future development of these resources and assist in their evaluation and deployment, especially at C8 and C14, are most welcome.
The sessions will relate to slides from the Progression of Ideas presentation introduced in C1 and refer to the online course being prototyped using Moodle at the url: http://ias2.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/construit/course/view.php?id=3
| Session/Day | Time | Room | Content | Tutors | Notes |
|
S1 Thursday 11/12 |
17.00 - 18.30 | CS1.01 |
Welcome and Intro to C5 (Mike, Meurig, Steve) Orientation on Making Construals - basic orientation and concepts Examples of construals (as in right hand column) |
JF EH SM |
Resources: roomdemoShao2013 in the UsingEMPE folder, which also uses the EDEN interpreter. |
|
S2 Thursday 11/12 |
19.45 - 21.00 | CS0.01 |
Adventures in a lift sequel ("the construal") Basics of JS-EDEN and a first exercise in making a construal |
JF SM BG |
Towards a JS-EDEN Handbook cf. the EDEN Handbook |
|
S3 Friday 12/12 |
09.30 - 11.00 | CS1.01 |
The Fundamental Diagram of Empirical Modelling More on the basic concepts and principles of making construals |
AW SM |
Web EDEN examples (NB Web EDEN doesn't always work first time, and also sometimes gives a spurious message about unavailability of demos) Bubblesort in basic and experimental forms |
|
S4 Friday 12/12 |
11.30 - 12.30 | CS1.01 |
From observables, dependency and agency to functions, definitions and actions Scripts as static, dynamic and versioning texts |
AW EH BG |
Introducing the prototype MCE - perspectives on scripts
|
|
S5 Friday 12/12 |
13.30 - 15.00 | CS0.01 |
JS-EDEN in the 'construit' version - an introductory exercise Customising JS-EDEN construit |
EH
JF |
Instruments, environments, tools |
|
S6 Friday 12/12 |
15.30 - 16.45 | CS0.01 |
The JUGS presentation in JS-EDEN + Sarah Marshall's problem-solving study of the JUGS educational puzzle Scripts as 'germs of a construal' The JSPE - adding personal slides for documentation purposes |
EH
JF |
The JUGS presentation can be accessed from the Project List in the (as yet pre-release) construit.c5 variant of JS-EDEN |
|
S7 Friday 12/12 |
17.00 - 18.15 |
CS0.01 |
EH
JF |
To try the 'JUGS puzzle' puzzle click the link to retrieve the script that you should paste into the Input Window of JS-EDEN construit, and follow the instructions in the 'Plain html View' panel. | |
|
S8 Friday 12/12 |
19.30 - 21.00 | CS1.01 |
Review of some existing construals |
BG EH |
|
|
S9 Saturday 13/12 |
09.30 - 11.00 |
CS1.01 |
The semantics of construals Reflections on oxoGardner1999 vimodes on Web EDEN |
KK SM |
cognitive layering software development learning: constructionism / constructivism and computing education |
|
S10 Saturday 13/12 |
11.30 - 12.30 | CS1.01 |
An exercise in construal comprehension - noughts-and-crosses in JS-EDEN The MENACE project conception |
KK EH JF |
The construal comprehension exercise is the first stage in the MENACE guided walk. The MENACE conception is briefly outlined on the html page that comes up when you load the MENACE guided walk. |
|
S11 Saturday 13/12 |
13.30 - 15.00 |
CS1.01 |
The MENACE "guided walk" laboratory session |
EH JF |
To follow the MENACE guided walk click the link to retrieve the script that you should paste into the Input Window of JS-EDEN construit, and follow the instructions in the 'Plain html View' panel. Note that parts of the walk are still under construction (cf. slide 24) |
|
S12 Saturday 13/12 |
15.30 - 17.00 |
End of session | |||
|
S13 Sunday 14/12 |
09.30 - 11.00 | CS0.01 |
Making Construals laboratory day: MENACE + SciFest Session 1: Brainstorming - reviewing resources |
SM BG |
The SciFest activities wil be focused on developing construals on the theme of 'light' that may be deployed at SciFest in Joensuu, Finland in April 2015. Some tentative ideas can be found here. |
|
S14 Sunday 14/12 |
11.30 - 12.30 | CS0.01 |
Making Construals laboratory day: MENACE + SciFest Session 2: DIY making construals |
AW BG EH JF RB |
|
|
S15 Sunday 14/12 |
13.30 - 15.00 | CS0.01 |
Making Construals laboratory day: MENACE + SciFest Session 3: DIY making construals |
AW BG EH JF RB |
|
|
S16 Sunday 14/12 |
15.30 - 17.00 | CS0.01 |
Making Construals laboratory day: MENACE + SciFest Session 4: Review and feedback session |
AW BG EH JF |
|
| 17.30 - | |||||
|
S17 Monday 15/12 |
09.30 - 11.00 | CS1.01 | Carolina will lead a discussion of her research and previous SciFest activities |
AW EH BG |
Monday will be dedicated to activities designed to generate feedback and help with the future development of the MCC, MCE and MCM. Some provisional ideas for exercises, experiments and mini-projects are listed here. |
|
S18 Monday 15/12 |
11.30 - 12.30 | C1.01 | A group feedback session led by Steve and Meurig |
The Jugs variations / Clayton Tunnel Railway Animation / Erlkoenig posters As exhibited at a Kaleidoscope Showcase event in 2005 |
|
|
S19 Monday 15/12 |
13.30 - 15.00 | CS0.01 |
Interviewing of students by Piet Kommers (Helix5) Prototyping a SciFest activity (group work) |
EH BG |
Personal slide preparation in JSPE |
|
S20 Monday 15/12 |
15.30 - 16.45 | CS0.01 | Prototyping a SciFest activity (group work) | EH
JF BG |
|
|
S21 Monday 15/12 |
17.00 - 18.15 | CS0.01 |
Prototyping a SciFest activity (group work)
|
EH JF |
|
|
S22 Monday 15/12 |
19.30 - 21.00 | CS0.01 | Review of SciFest activity as prototyped in previous sessions | AW
EH BG |
|
|
S23 Tuesday 16/12 |
09.30 - 11.00 | CS1.01 |
Review, feedback and preview - MCC, MCE, MCM More about EM resources Further agenda for SciFest preparation and future collaboration |
|
