MC Squared Project - An overiview

MCSquared FP7 Project 610467, 1st Review Meeting, 06 November, 2014, Utrecht, Netherlands 1

M C squared: social creativity in designing c-books for engagement with CMT

Chronis Kynigos, CTI


The creative e-book

• Interactive vs creative e-books• How does reading change?• What roles will users of c-books adopt?• How will readers be addressed?• How can an author inspire creativity? • How will the meaning of ‘a book’ change?


The ‘c-book’• Can contain constructionist widgets

from diverse widget factories (from Cinderella-E-slate-Geogebra to Scratch-NETLOGO etc)

• Supports collaborative design with CoIcode

• Will support authorable data analytics


A new kind of mediation?


A new kind of mediation?

•An e-book creatively affording creative mathematical thinking

•Expressive medium

•Fusion between reading and meaning generation with expressive media

• Connected representations

• Dynamic manipulation

• Constructionism

• Inquiry


M c 2 and integration

Technical work:

• integration of diverse widgets

• integration of authoring, collaboration and data analytics

Evaluation:

SC in design • Integration of DG and

BC

• Integration of 4 diverse operationalizations of DG and BC

CMT as an affordance• Creative thinking

• CMT

• Social creativity and MT


Socio-technical environments

Social Creativity (S-C) in a design project (Fischer, 2001, 2011)creativity as activity focusing on a design problem

of common concern (the “interest”) situated in a socio-technical environment

Community of Interest (CoI)specially designed computational mediafueled by a culture of participation exemplified in social processes and practicesleading to novel/new, useful and desirable outputs


Collaborative designs with CoIcode

Figure 1: The CoI’s discussion thread

Mind map – forum

Semantics to encourage social creativity (alternative, contributory, objecting)

Embedded tools for

versioning

Adornment and other tools for structuring and

navigating through a discussion


A glimpse at emerging c-book units


Where we areTechnical work

Prototype & manual 90% ready? (D3.2 – m 12)

Requirement analysis D2.1.1 m 12 – status?

D3.1, 4.1, D5.1 m12

Javascript/html5 version developments

Feedback, new affordances for CoIcode

Data analytics: developments

Evaluation work In the midst of cycle 2 : 5 more c-book units per CoI plus 1 c-book unit for wp7

Complete version 1 of integration tools (templates)

Structure our analysis objectives (GRQs and SRQs) and methods (‘critical episode’, etc)

D2.2, D2.3 m15

D6.2 m16, D7.1 m17

Dissemination/exploitation plansD8.3.1 m12

Use of resources Justify major deviations


The most pertinent question to us so far (Ken Kahn)

What else are we contributing other than that we’re producing generalized constructionist e-books a few years (or months) early?


An M C 2 response

We’re addressing the questions: (1)could this be a new kind of expressive medium / document?

(2)If yes, can it promote SC and CMT in new ways?

We’re developing a technology with 3 integrated affordances:

- Diverse widgets- Collaborative design- Authoring system for data

analytics


• A book as a ‘living document’ for the reader

• A need for creativity in designing c-books to promote creativity in their readers

• A need for diverse views and methods to integrate amongst them

• A need to have information on what readers do with a c-book

• Improvable boundary objects to generate boundary crossings within a CoI: widget instances and unit versionings

MC Squared Project - An overiview

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