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Teaching (coding) for good
Alberto Montresor reflects on his journey as a computer science educator, emphasizing the importance of informal learning, passion, and community. He highlights the role of play and experimentation in true learning and discusses various opportunities for students to engage in coding and computer science. The document underscores the need for a balance between formal and informal education while also encouraging students to follow their interests and passions.
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Teaching (coding) for good
- 1. Teaching (coding) forgood Alberto Montresor
- 2. This is thestory of a journey….
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- 18. How many yearshave you spent in school?
- 19. Was it worthit?
- 20. What have youlearned? How have you learned?
- 21. Seymour Papert • Mathematician, computerscientist, and educator • Co-founded the MIT Media Lab • Worked with Piaget • Proposed Constructionism • Invented LOGO • Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas Harvester Press, 1980
- 22. Gears of my(his) childhood 42042 2x 2x
- 23. Gears of mychildhood
- 24. Gears of mychildhood
- 25. School gave menew tools - Sums - Products I 2 4 8 16 32 64 I 28 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768 65536 131072 262444 524288 1048576 It 2 1 1613216ft I 28 1 256 1 512 1 1024120481409618192116384132768165536 1 1310721262144152428811048576 2.097.151 I y 65536 2 131072 My gears - Numbers!
- 26. A kid witha VIC-20 • Commodore VIC 20: 8-bit, 1 Mhz, 3.5 KB of RAM • I was using “base 100” • Two decimal digits were stored in each byte • So you could double it inside a byte, and generate a carry-over
- 27. More school later T(n)= ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ ⇢⇢ n log n 1X j=0 2j n · 2log n 1 2 1 + 4log n Serie geometrica finita: 8x 6= 1 : kX j=0 xj = xk+1 1 x 1 ) 63X j=0 2j = 263+1 1 2 1 = 264 1 Alberto Montresor (UniTN) ASD - Analisi di algoritmi 2019/09/14 32 / 70
- 28. My algorithm wasright!
- 29. What are thegears of your childhood? What is your passion?
- 30. Take-home lessons True learninghappens when you learn for yourself when you fall in love with the subject that you are learning
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- 36. Do you (still)play?
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- 38. Take-home lessons True learninghappens when you play when you experiment, take risks, test the boundaries, and iteratively adapt when things go wrong
- 39. Samba schools (clubs) Papertmentions samba schools at the end of Mindstorms
- 44. Are you partof a learning community of peers?
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- 46. Take-home lessons True learninghappens when you can share what you have learned
- 47. Mitch Resnick • Professor@ MIT Media Lab • Creator of Scratch • Passion • Play • Peer • Projects
- 48. Coolest Project @Verona
- 49. Coolest Projects @Dublin
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- 52. What about theuniversity? The eternal struggle between formal and informal teaching Varie ed eventuali Opportunità ACM-ICPC Google Summer of Code Google HashCode Hackathon(s) Speck&Tech Facoltiadi Coderdojo Olimpiadi dell’Informatica Alberto Montresor (UniTN) ASD - Intro
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- 55. Tutoring/mentoring Learning to teach, the (easy|hard) way
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- 60. Even more informal Whatif there is place where you can follow your passion, play, meet peers, and work on your projects?
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- 62. I almost forgot! Why coding? computerscience? computational thinking?
- 63. Some lessons I’ve learnedby myself
- 64. Your gears arenot everybody else gears
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- 66. Some kids havelost the ability to learn by themselves
- 67. You are plantingseeds
- 68. Fare lezione vsInsegnare vs Educare • Lectio: lettura (reading) • In-signare: lasciare dei segni (leave marks) • E-ducere: condurre fuori (lead out)
- 69. My journey Being a (computer science) educator
- 70. Come with meon my journey…
- 72. February 21st, 2020 Labellezza computazionale della natura