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

Fri Aug 6 11:40:28 EST 2010

thanks Tony thats v cool - i'll be there:)

"The origins of the personal computer are found in an educational vision"  

Alan Kay represents a very rich vein of educational and computer thinking, which i've investigated in the last few years

you don't get the Turing medal for major services to computer industry for nothing..

and yet education was always central to his vision, not as an market or modified application of business software, but as the primary place where systems thinking could be incubated with appropriate software model making 

discussions in this list directed me there i think; Bill etc

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

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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