Questionnaire

Your impressions of the role of 'making construals'

How would you summarize the essence of making construals?

How does it relate to your views on learning and teaching?

How do you expect the idea of construals will affect your future teaching?

How do you see the best way to disseminate the idea of construals?

Your impressions of the approach to 'making construals'

What elements of the presented approach to making construals do you fully agree with?

What elements are you doubtful about?

What elements do you find confusing?

Which are conflicting with your essential views on learning?

Your perspective on the consortium

Which of the partners do you feel most affinity with?

Which of the partners would you like most as a ‘sparring partner’ in the further elaboration of what construals finally need to be?

Your thoughts on how further work on construals may best be directed

What type of construals do you expect to bring in addition to / on top of the existing ones?

What learning activities do you consider as most appropriate for students to go through before they actually make use of JS-Eden?

What types of differences among learners do you see as critical where their learning through making construals is concerned?

Your perspective on the philosophical context that surrounds making construals

Do you think it is necessary to reorient yourself in relation to philosophical paradigms before fully benefitting from making construals?

Do you think that students will need to explore underlying philosophical paradigms before they can actually grasp the essence of construals?

If so, would you feel inclined to co-create this philosophical entrance?

Where making construals may be best applied.

What are the current status and trends in technology-enhanced learning and computing in your national educational systems and what impact does this have on the prospects of introducing ‘making construals’ in this context?

Do you think that making construals can contribute to stages of education other than university-level computer science curricula? (e.g. Secondary / Primary level schools, after-school clubs, continuous learning for professional purposes, training for special industrial skills like game-designers etc?)

What first-order benefits in terms of learning and cognitive development would you target in this wider scope of construals?

How you see making construals in relation to other approaches

What methods do you consider to be most closely-related to making construals?

Which didactic programming environments would you like to see listed in the set of alternatives to making construals? (LOGO, Boxer, Prolog, Scratch etc); Please mention relevant urls.

Where do you see beneficial synergy between construals and other fields like educational robotics, interactive physics, electronic workbench, crocodile electronics, concept mapping tools (like Inspiration etc)? Please add your favourite ones.

What thoughts you have about its educational application.

How do you see making construals being integrated in future teacher training programs?

What thoughts you have about dissemination

How do you think we can best address the need to popularise construals to the larger public?

In particular: What can you suggest as a way of presenting construals at the forthcoming SciFest?

What thoughts you have about evaluation

Which experiments in education would you like to see in order to get more evidence on how students perceive and can benefit from making construals?

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