Marginalisation of Global Knowledge
UNESCO: Education for Sustainable Development Global Citizenship Eduacation
+social and environmental aspects of sustainable development.
Means sharing values and responsibilities, empathy, solidarity, respect for differences and diversity
gov.uk — Education
‘Play Providers: Camden’ paceforall.com, coramsfield.org, 3acres.org.uk, thewinch.org, hampsteadcommunitycentre.co.uk
How can we make humanistic problems a styling exercise: by understanding them. As soon as we act, we make “styling choices”
How do I tackle the Problem? Observe.
Freelance Creative Industries are decentralised
Unrepresented Categories in the Creative Field
Field of Research
12500 Pounds for a Course in Coding -- Bootcamp FlatIron School Accessibility via Arduino and Raspberry Pie
Policy does not make coding accessible to the wider wider public?
Importance of Technology in understanding your surrounding. Reality includes technology.
Enlightenment Era in Education for Programming
- Google Translate Code
- Translate the Bible into Code
- Assumptions about the world
- Dictionary for Code
- Assumptions about the world
- Shortcuts for Programming Languages (Interface Coding) don't solve the Problem.
- Interactive
Irritate?
Empower?
Inform?
Raise Awareness?
UNDERSTAND!
UAL Creative Computing Institute
What is my aim?
Street Signs
I am a Design Student in London and citizen of this World and during a recent course in Physical Computing, I realised that not being able to read or write a programming language is an irresponsible shortcoming in both roles.
I am now exercising on mimo to learn Python...
Although considerable efforts are being taken to change the fact that only a very small proportion of the world is digitally literate, I feel that more people have to understand the urgency of mastering this skill as key to the future.
I would be very keen and interested to hear your opinion on this and would like to ask whether you would be available for a telephone interview?
Yours sincerely, Valerie Epping
I'm sorry, Valierie, but I get too many interview requests, and they always take up more time than anticipated. I already have too many commitments, so I have to decline. Sorry!--Guido
Dear Mr Van Rossum,
Thank you responding anyways.
Any tips for where I might find some more insight?
Best, Valerie
APL
BASIC
Forth
ML
SQL
AWK
Postscript
C++
Eiffel
Objective-C
Perl
Haskell
Python
Lua
Java
UML
Blind People in Programming?
Teacher, 29 years old, teaching Maths and English in the Gymnasium (highest attainable degree in secondary Education in Germany) in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Digitalisation
Mathematics: possibility of using this subject as a way of explaining about technology?
Didactics
"Director of Local Medical Clinic has issued a report that the electro-magnetic radiation of WIFI is bad for children, therefore it should not be enhanced in primary or secondary schools.""
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/digitales-klassenzimmer-psychiater-wenn-kinder-nur-wischen.694.de.html?dram:article_id=412480Digital Bill which is investment of 280000 Euros in digital Education: 70 % will be put in infrastructure in the form of tablets, VR glasses etc.
No smartphones in the schools. Individual Choice by schools.
At University of Heidelberg which is the biggest institute for Information Technology in Education there were 5 students studying it.
No computers available for a large audience in schools.
1. What is the level of knowledge of Undergraduate or Graduate Design Students you are exposed to?
Very low. Almost no students comes in with a basic knowledge of computing or programming.
2. How reliant do you think the future of Design or the relevance of Design will be on coding/creative computing?
At least technology and computing are a great opportunity for the arts, whatever shape they may take. This is something that would be
3. How prepared do you think students will be at the end of their Education at CSM for a Career in creative Computing?
Not very prepared because we are understaffed and students cannot get the basic training that they need to start making on their own. If there is never a basic understanding, the way to making independently is very long and even this may be an illusion because even I have to help myself with the things I find on the web
4. Why are you doing this job when your portfolio is so extensive and great?
Working as an independent artist is not always well paid, so I have to see that I have an additional income. Also, I believe that this kind of education is important for the arts.
5. How many more teachers do you/would you need to meet the demand for know-how of your expertise?
At least 2 probably.
Do you teach IT in Primary School?
I used to, although I do not anymore.
What do you feel is the most important to take away from primary school?
Social Competence
Which is your primary School in Beckenham, Kent
What is your degree?
Psychology and Criminology as well as Uni Degree in Primary Education
Art, Computing, Design Technology
How much specific training to you get for that subject?
1 month of training, 2 and 1/2 for training on IT Training
What resources do yu use for classes?
Ipads, more that computers
What are the activities that you do?
Programming BBots with Sphere as well as HTML and Python
How often do you get an update to the curriculum?
Every 5-10 years.
How does the school that you work at get evaluated?
Ofsted
Who defines what gets into the curriculum?
Department of Education.
| Intervention/Idea | Focus | PoO (Points of Observation) | Problem |
|---|---|---|---|
| translate the bible | awareness | hardcode/softcode | no real impact instead of prettiness |
| linguistic connotation | accessibility | world tongue, different coding languages, education system intact | huge transfer effort |
| driving license for Iphones | feasability/incentive | test design | unrealistic/untargeted |
Hardocde vs. Soft Code
generic Code
Motivation: digital illiteracy disempowers when facing the future.
Scandal: more digital illiterate members are being bred.
phone calls with IT teacher questions about curriculum IT teacher primary school
Mother -- studied Computer Science and only had access to a Computer two times a week.
Observations: Mimo -- MIT App to teach coding to children
supervised execution
Low-Tech
Mental Structures
Kindergarden
Physical Engagement
Game narrative
Case studies of Methodology of other schools.
Governmental Dictation and guaranteeing a Standard
Part of the Curriculum
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
Phone Lamees
Preparation Phone Call Mr Koenzen
Contact Jeremy Keenan
Mail Konstantinos Mouzakis
How do I connotate Programming Languages as Languages.
USP must be accessibility!
Find out about linguist that want to help me
Establish Contact with council of education
Get in touch with IT teacher in UK and Germany
Gather info on IT teaching, Language Teaching
Find our whether attendance of a class may be possible
Do parents know about this?
What is the primary medium/form of teaching for languages in Primary school?
How rigid is it in terms of acessibility, empathy and engagement?
What is your professional training?
I studied Computer Science at the University of Dortmund.
Where did you start programming/playing?
Mikrocomputer Technik
How do you teach your kids?
With Raspberry Pie and Arduino
In Aachen we have made an investment of 300 Arduinos for the local schools to foster digital education.
I am convinced that if we get children to share the fascination of making, then we can easily have them be interested in making.
If they can make the link between themselves and a little LED going on and off this is a big step.
Games for Languages
KLoo: Card Games
Spot it: token game
FluentU: Digital now
Mindsnacks: Digital
MA@Goldsmiths
Dr Pia Pichler
Dear Dr Pichler,
I am from the Central Saint Martins School for Art and Design and currently researching into the possibility of understanding and teaching computing as a language.
Therefore, I would like to understand the way that languages are structured and how they are effectively transmitted and mastered.
Do you think it might be possible to briefly interview you on this topic/contact one of the students on the course that might be interested?
Best Regards,
Valerie Epping
Reply
I think the best way to proceed for you would be to get an introductory text on linguistics, YUle is very accessible, and read the relevant chapters that interest you, as this is not yet clear from your question, probably the area of syntax, morphology,phonology. ONce you have done this background research it will be easier for you to approach specialists with questions for an interview as you will know what kind of questions to ask.
Hope this helps
Pia
IT teacher in Germany
1 IT Club a week in a secondary school in Germany
Father is Computer Scientist
5th and 6th Grade ITF: Information Technology Foundation -- Word and Powerpoint
Upper school
Databases, Bits and Bytes
Make a Calendar for administrative Purposes
Open-Source Calendar that is still in Use today.
That led to IT-training with Doctors/Caretakers
National Volunteer Duty
Administrative Questions
Scholarship holder with the Hopp Foundation
How would you describe the situation regarding digital education in germany?
bad, unsatisfactory. In the 7th Grade they have one lesson a week and unless you take it up as an optional subject you do not get any introduction into coding.
10 % of IT students at University go on to Teaching.
Baden-Württemberg
Computer Science, Maths and Physics
idea: to navigate a blindfolded partner through a labyrinth
Questions:
1. When did fascination for programming/computing start?
What resources did you use?
What similiarities lie between language as such and programming languages?
When do you feel Information technology education could start?
What do you have most trouble with teaching IT?
What is usually the point that either fascinateds people or where they feel triggered/hooked?
If you could/did have a say in programming education/what would that be?
Responsible technology use?
References: MIMO, Barefoot teaching initiative
1. Background?
Recording Bands/Sound Engineering
Impression of Computing Literacy Level at CSM.
60 x 3 hour inductions and the booked slots suggest that there is nowhere near enough staff meet the demand. The students do not know how to teach themselves which is frustrating.
Importance of Computing Education?
Rich Cochran has put this quite effectively in a conversation about this. In university everybody says that they will just find somebody to do it for them and after, they are unaware that experts in this field are highly saught after and then cost about 1000 Pounds a day. It is postponing the problem.
Idea for Improvement?
A lot more long-term investment. This just has to start from the very beginnning. Not everybody will end up being an IT expert but we have to at least give young students the chance to have access to the knowledge.
Programming Languages as Languages?
So there are languages that make programming a lot easier. Interpreted Languages, for example. In a way though, the further you get away from the original Machine Languages, the less you understand the actual logic that is behind it.
Source:Biblino, Online Library of the School
28 Participants in the Club, 5th and Sixth Grade
1pm-3pm
1st Part: Game Introductions.
Games developed in Workshops facilitated for scholarship holders of the Hopp Foundation
all ways lead back to the Hopp-Foundation
Working in a High Risk Elementary School in Wilhelmsburg/Hamburg, Germany
Subjects: German, Englisch, History, Theatre and Sport
My own experience of digital education is limited to the attempt of programming an app in secondary school, because our school is a mint school.
No such thing as media pedagogy in primary school in Germany.
5.5 Billion Euros Investment in Digital Education in Hamburg. Confusion about educating digitally and digital education. E.g.: investment in virtual reality glasses, opposed to Arduinos or Rasbperry Pies.
Conflict for teachers! They have to cut time off the main subjects to plan for digital contents because these are not implemented in the curriculum in primary schools.
Formats in Primary School for Langugage Education:
Writing
Presenting
Reading
Using a dictionary
Categorizing texts
Reading aloud
"Trampoline spelling"
Textbook and handouts
Plan of Action
Command-based Training?
Translation?
Learnings from Club in Hemsbach
Mint-School: Science Focus in School
Where do you reach the biggest audience in children?
Role Play with Directions? similarity to Transactions in a Foreign Currency.
Problems:
Documentation/Communication
No way because of Privacy (not even allowed for teachers)
New Ways of transmission of Knowledge
Eudcation: trained as IT Specialist
Basis for successful Language Training: Vocabulary
Textbook: Cursus Continuus
It is a genius idea to connotate programming languages as languages!
The way that we learn latin is the continuous repetition of translating the language into another. This way we link meanings with each other. This is what languages do and what we try to do successfully in language education.
Advantages:
- Open-source if modifiable
- Easy to use.
- Can unite all elements of learning: Understand, make, play
Can understand and apply the fundamental principles and contents of computer sciences, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data presentation.
Can analyse problems in computational terms and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems.
Can evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies analitically to solve problems
Are responsible, competents, confiedent and creative users of infromations and communication technology.
- understand what programs are.
- understand programs
- create programs
- use logical reasoning to predict behaviour
Melisande May, a Primary school teacher has agreed/organised a way for me to facilitate a session with her class in the primary school that she works in.
The "Elbinsel Schule" in Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg is a high-risk school comprising Primary School and Secondary School. The Primary School has 800 pupils. This is 8 times the size of the primary school that I used to go to.
The classroom is very colourful and modern. I find it interesting to see the fluid transition from tactile to smartboard, like in this picture.
