[Yr7-10it] Live Math 2.0 event with Alan Kay: ''Important Questions in Education Research, '' Saturday 2pm ET

Fri Aug 6 08:11:44 EST 2010

Join an online Elluminate seminar with Alan Kay, one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces, the creator of Squeak/Etoys and a influential contributor to the One Laptop Per Child program.

Unfortunately its 4am Sunday east coast Australia time.

Tony

> *Important Questions in Education Research*
> [image: Viewpoints_Research_Institute.png]
> 
> During the event, we will discuss the list of education research questions
> Alan Kay considers fundamental, ways questions can be addressed, and reasons
> why few researchers try.
> 
> **
> 
> Login All Math 2.0 events are free and open to the public. Information about
> all events in the series is here: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events
> 
> Saturday, August 7th 2010 we will meet in the LearnCentral public Elluminate
> room at 11am Pacific - 2pm Eastern time. *WorldClock for your time
> zone.<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=7&year=2010&hour=14&min=0&sec=0&p1=207>
> *
> 
>  [image: webinar_buttons.png]<https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27>
> *To join:*
> 
>    - Follow this link:
> *http://tinyurl.com/math20event<https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27>
>    *
>    - Click "OK" and "Accept" several times as your browser installs the
>    software. When you see Elluminate Session Log-In, enter your name and click
>    the "Login" button
>    - You will find yourself in a virtual room. An organizer will be there to
>    greet you, starting about half an hour before the event.
> 
>   If this is your first Elluminate event, consider coming a few minutes
> earlier to check out the technology. The room opens half an hour before the
> event.
> 
> Agenda
> During the event, we will discuss Alan's list of important questions in
> education research, and his vision of how to address the questions.
> 
> Partial list of questions:
> 
>    - Should various levels of a child's society be able to choose some of
>    what a child should learn? If so, what and why?
>    - What kinds of learning are we going to try to help the child
>    accomplish? Case-based recognition of situations, and actions to take? Deep
>    understanding and fluency that resembles practitioners in a subject area?
>    Etc.
>    - What is the spectrum (or the dimensions) of children's abilities to
>    learn a wide variety of subjects (e.g. from sports to physics)?
>    - What is the similar spectrum (or dimensions) of internal and external
>    motivations for putting effort into learning various subjects?
>    - How can we ascertain what kinds of help are needed by the different
>    kinds of children?
>    - What are the trade-offs and pathways of teaching children how to learn
>    vs. teaching subject matter?
>    - What are the best kinds of situations/environmens/processes to help
>    children learn difficult to learn ideas?
> 
> 
> References    Alan Kay's reading list <http://procod.com/preda/kay.html>
> "The Power Of The Context" <http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004001_power.pdf> -
> Alan Kay's tribute to his research community
> [image: pov-cover-smaller.png]
> "Points of View: A Tribute to Alan Kay" book <http://vpri.org/pov/>
> 
> Event Host *[image: Alan_Kay.jpg]Alan Kay* is one of the earliest pioneers
> of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user
> interfaces. His contributions have been recognized with the Charles Stark
> Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering ï¿½for the vision,
> conception, and development of the first practical networked personal
> computers,ï¿½ the Alan M. Turing Award from the Association of Computing
> Machinery ï¿½for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary
> object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed
> Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing,ï¿½ and the
> Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation ï¿½for creation of the concept of
> modern personal computing and contribution to its realization.ï¿½ This work
> was done in the rich context of ARPA and Xerox PARC with many talented
> colleagues.
> 
> He has been a Xerox Fellow, Chief Scientist of Atari, Apple Fellow, Disney
> Fellow, and HP Senior Fellow. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of
> Computer Science at UCLA. In 2001 he founded Viewpoints Research Institute,
> a non-profit organization dedicated to children, learning and advanced
> systems research. http://www.vpri.org
> 
> At Viewpoints Research Institute he and his colleagues continue to explore
> advanced systems and programming design by aiming for a ï¿½Mooreï¿½s Lawï¿½
> advance in software creation of many orders of magnitude. Kay and Viewpoints
> are also deeply involved in the One Laptop Per Child initiative.
> <h1 id="toc0"><strong>Important Questions in Education Research</strong></h1>
>  <br>
> <img src="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/file/view/Viewpoints_Research_Institute.png/154771331/Viewpoints_Research_Institute.png" alt="Viewpoints_Research_Institute.png" title="Viewpoints_Research_Institute.png" align="left"><br>
> 
> 
> <br>
> During the event, we will discuss the list of education research 
> questions Alan Kay considers fundamental, ways questions can be 
> addressed, and reasons why few researchers try.<br>
> <br>
> <h2 id="toc1"><a name="Important Questions in Education Research-Recording"></a><strong></strong><br></h2>
> <br>
> <h2 id="toc2"><a name="Important Questions in Education Research-Login"></a>Login</h2>
>  All Math 2.0 events are free and open to the public. Information about all events in the series is here:<a class="wiki_link" href="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events"> http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events</a><br>
> 
> 
> <br>
> Saturday, August 7th 2010 we will meet in the LearnCentral public Elluminate room at 11am Pacific - 2pm Eastern time. <strong><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=7&year=2010&hour=14&min=0&sec=0&p1=207" rel="nofollow">WorldClock for your time zone.</a></strong><br>
> 
> 
> <br>
> 
> 
> <table class="wiki_table">
>     <tbody><tr>
>         <td><h2 id="toc3"><a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27"><img src="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/file/view/webinar_buttons.png/129131595/webinar_buttons.png" alt="webinar_buttons.png" title="webinar_buttons.png"></a></h2>
> 
> 
> </td>
>         <td><strong>To join:</strong><br>
> 
> <ul><li>Follow this link: <strong><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/math20event</a></strong></li><li>Click "OK" and "Accept" several times as your browser installs 
> the software. When you see Elluminate Session Log-In, enter your name 
> and click the "Login" button</li><li>You will find yourself in a virtual room. An organizer will be there to greet you, starting about half an hour before the event.</li></ul>
> 
> </td>
>     </tr>
> </tbody></table>
> 
> If this is your first Elluminate event, consider coming a few minutes 
> earlier to check out the technology. The room opens half an hour before 
> the event.<br>
> <br>
> <h2 id="toc4"><a name="Important Questions in Education Research-Agenda"></a>Agenda</h2>
>  <br>
> During the event, we will discuss Alan's list of important questions in 
> education research, and his vision of how to address the questions.<br>
> <br>
> Partial list of questions:<br>
> 
> <ul><li>Should various levels of a child's society be able to choose some of what a child should learn? If so, what and why?</li><li>What kinds of learning are we going to try to help the child 
> accomplish? Case-based recognition of situations, and actions to take? 
> Deep understanding and fluency that resembles practitioners in a subject
>  area? Etc.</li><li>What is the spectrum (or the dimensions) of children's abilities
>  to learn a wide variety of subjects (e.g. from sports to physics)?</li><li>What is the similar spectrum (or dimensions) of internal and 
> external motivations for putting effort into learning various subjects?</li><li>How can we ascertain what kinds of help are needed by the different kinds of children?</li><li>What are the trade-offs and pathways of teaching children how to learn vs. teaching subject matter?</li>
> 
> <li>What are the best kinds of situations/environmens/processes to help children learn difficult to learn ideas?</li></ul>
> 
> <br>
> <h2 id="toc5"><a name="Important Questions in Education Research-References"></a>References</h2>
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> <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://procod.com/preda/kay.html" rel="nofollow">Alan Kay's reading list</a><br>
> <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004001_power.pdf" rel="nofollow">"The Power Of The Context"</a> - Alan Kay's tribute to his research community<br>
> <img src="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/file/view/pov-cover-smaller.png/155220777/pov-cover-smaller.png" alt="pov-cover-smaller.png" title="pov-cover-smaller.png"><br>
> <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://vpri.org/pov/" rel="nofollow">"Points of View: A Tribute to Alan Kay" book </a><br>
> <br>
> <h2 id="toc6"><a name="Important Questions in Education Research-Event Host"></a>Event Host</h2>
>  <strong><img src="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/file/view/Alan_Kay.jpg/154770761/Alan_Kay.jpg" alt="Alan_Kay.jpg" title="Alan_Kay.jpg" align="left">Alan Kay</strong>
>  is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, 
> personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions 
> have been recognized with the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National
>  Academy of Engineering ï¿½for the vision, conception, and development of 
> the first practical networked personal computers,ï¿½ the Alan M. Turing 
> Award from the Association of Computing Machinery ï¿½for pioneering many 
> of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming 
> languages, leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for 
> fundamental contributions to personal computing,ï¿½ and the Kyoto Prize 
> from the Inamori Foundation ï¿½for creation of the concept of modern 
> personal computing and contribution to its realization.ï¿½ This work was 
> done in the rich context of ARPA and Xerox PARC with many talented 
> colleagues. <br>
> <br>
> He has been a Xerox Fellow, Chief Scientist of Atari, Apple Fellow, 
> Disney Fellow, and HP Senior Fellow. He is currently an Adjunct 
> Professor of Computer Science at UCLA. In 2001 he founded Viewpoints 
> Research Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to children, 
> learning and advanced systems research. <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.vpri.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.vpri.org</a><br>
> <br>
> At Viewpoints Research Institute he and his colleagues continue to 
> explore advanced systems and programming design by aiming for a ï¿½Mooreï¿½s
>  Lawï¿½ advance in software creation of many orders of magnitude. Kay and 
> Viewpoints are also deeply involved in the One Laptop Per Child 
> initiative.
>   <br>ï¿½<br>
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