TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008 IT education: challenge the limitations, don’t limit the challenges Evgenia Sendova – IMI, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Eliza Stefanova – FMI, Sofia University
TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008
IT education:challenge the limitations, don’t limit the challenges
Evgenia Sendova – IMI, Bulgarian Academy of SciencesEliza Stefanova – FMI, Sofia University
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Ideas in constructionist spirit we try to follow
• Learning by doing• IT as building material• Hard fun • Learning to learn• Debugging as an educational idea• Learning is a struggle (including for us, the teachers)• To study IT and acquire IT skills is important but the most
important is to use them NOW in such a way that we could cope with complex problem situations in the FUTURE
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Vision for education
Every citizen should enter the world with:• A proud vision of self as a powerful life-long
learner• A vibrant vision of a worth-while life ahead• An optimistic vision of a society to be proud of• The skills and ethic needed to follow these
visions
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Policy makers pay attention to IT education hoping that a young population well-educated in this modern technology will contribute to the future welth of the nation.
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Some limitations
• The limited time in a class setting• Time needed for preparation• Difficulties when working with many students• Lack of appropriate materials• Following a fixed curriculum
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Let us dream together…
М Е Ч Т А
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Helping the archeologists
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How were these two vessels used?
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Decoding
In Sea
Water
Wine
Dolphin
Circling around
Psikter
jump
putCrater
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We found together:
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TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008
Computer models with Elica
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TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008
How much wine?
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A cup after one's likeness
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• Coding:– Transmitting information– Why is should be hidden– How the nature is coding its
secrets– ….
Coding as the red thread
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Cezar’s code
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The beginning of criptography
One of the first methods for secret transmition of information
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Frequency analysis of a textГрафинята отвори библията и преброигласните на една страница, за да видикои се срещат най-често...
Из Черните диаманти на Мор Йокан
Графинята отвори библията и преброигласните на една страница, за да видикои се срещат най-често...
Из Черните диаманти на Мор Йокан
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TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008
TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008
Chilbolton radio telescope in Hampshire, UK
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Acting as midwives of
teachers’ideas
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TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008
TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008
TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008
The novelty is sometimes well forgotten old...
• The methods and the spirit of teaching are more important than the curriculum Bertrand Russel
• The biggest success of a teacher is to be able to say: My students work as if I don’t exist.
Maria Montessori• He who dares to be a teacher shouldn’t stop learning.
John Dana• If we pass to our students our love to learning they will learn to learn.
Sir John Lubock• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed
him for a lifetime.A Chinese proverb
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