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Presentation Alberto Barbero - MEDEAnet Webinar:Programming as creativity

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This document discusses using visual programming languages like Scratch and App Inventor to teach programming concepts to students. It describes Scratch's features for sequential, conditional, and iterative structures. Events like Scratch Day are held worldwide to bring together Scratch enthusiasts. The document also outlines a project where students used App Inventor to create educational apps for disabled children. The project helped increase student motivation to learn programming and develop tools to help others.

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MEDEAnet WEBinar AA ccaatt,, aa kkiinngg aanndd aa rroobboott:: pprrooggrraammmmiinngg wwiitthh bblloocckkss A. Barbero IIS G. Vallauri Fossano (CN) - Italy
The approach to Informatics in Italian secondary schools is being reshaped after the Reform of 2010. The new framework allows the introduction of computer logic and basic programming concepts beginning in the first and second grades. Basic skills Problem solving Concept of algorithm and its representation step by step Programming foundations
IInnffoorrmmaattiiccss:: mmoorree ddiiggnniittyy tthhaann iinn tthhee ppaasstt Scratch S4A App Inventor Not only ECDL BUT Now what? NNeeww ttoooollss
PPrrooggrraammmmiinngg ffrroomm Visual programming language developed in 2007 by a team lead by Mitchel Resnick - Lifelong Kindergarten Group of M.I.T. MediaLab GGooaall Scratch suits the curriculum that teachers sought because it was specifically created for introducing the basic concepts of problem solving and programming to young and inexperienced students FFeeaattuurreess variables and lists conditional structure iterative structure managing concurrent processes communication with messages event paradigm animations free software web 2.0
SSccrraattcchh 22..00 WWeebb--BBaasseedd IIDDEE
SSeeqquueennttiiaall ssttrruuccttuurree think of a number CCoonnddiittiioonnaall ssttrruuccttuurree what kind of triangle is this?
IItteerraattiivvee ssttrruuccttuurree guess a secret number IInntteerr-pprroocceessss ccoommmmuunniiccaattiioonn cane Bau e gatto Miao CCaatt sspprriittee DDoogg sspprriittee
Scratch Day is an initiative launched by the creators of Scratch in order to bring together from all over the world Scratch enthusiasts with initiatives, meetings and round tables. In 2014, 186 events were organized in 46 countries around the world.
SSccrraattcchh DDaayy wwoorrllddwwiiddee 2014
VVaallllaauurrii DDaayy The Vallauri Institute organized during "Scratch Day 2011" the first Vallauri Scratch Day contest held within the school for students in the introductory classes of the technology sector with the aim of promoting the study of computer programming by rewarding the best projects developed using Scratch.
VVaallllaauurrii DDaayy The first Vallauri Scratch Day contest May 21, 2011
IIttaalliiaann SSccrraattcchh FFeessttiivvaall 2014 Edition 32 high schools from all over Italy
IIttaalliiaann SSccrraattcchh FFeessttiivvaall Evaluation criteria: 1. technical quality: the application uses sophisticated technical tricks or ingenious solutions? 2. usability: the application is friendly and uses an intuitive interface? Is it fun to play with? 3. originality: the application is innovative? It proposes a classic in a new look? 4. aesthetic quality: the style and design are well prepared? The proposal is attractive and pleasant to see and use?
IIttaalliiaann SSccrraattcchh FFeessttiivvaall 22001122 FFiirrsstt EEddiittiioonn 24 high schools from all over Italy
Aurora
Arena Space Battle
SSccrraattcchh ffoorr AArrdduuiinnoo ((SS44AA)) Free software developed by Smalltalk Programming Group of Citilab in Barcelona New blocks that allow you to program an Arduino sprite to manage sensors and actuators Thanks to Picoboard protocol, a firmware installed on Arduino, S4A can interact with sensors and actuators.
AArrdduuiinnoo:: mmiiccrrooccoonnttrroolllleerr bbooaarrdd TTiinnkkeerr KKiitt:: ssiimmpplliiffiieess tthhee ccoonnnneeccttiioonn ooff ddeevviicceess
AA TTiinnkkeerrkkiitt sshhiieelldd wwiitthh vvaarriioouuss ootthheerr ccoommppoonneennttss
TThhee LLEEDD OOnn aanndd OOffff SS44AA pprrooggrraamm HHaarrddwwaarree SSttaaggee SSccrriipptt AArrdduuiinnoo SSpprriittee
Tool developed by Google and currently managed by MIT Media Lab Web-based IDE Programming Android mobile devices (tablet & smartphone) Blocks programming (stack & puzzle) with an approach similar to Scratch Managing of main sensors offered by the world of mobile devices OOP (components with propierties, methods and events)
AApppp IInnvveennttoorr wweebb--bbaasseedd IIDDEE Designer Blocks Editor Android Emulator
TTiicc--TTaacc--TTooee AApppp Designer
Blocks EEddiittoorr aanndd EEmmuullaattoorr
TThhee pprroojjeecctt KKiiddss@@PPllaayy In March 2013, consultation between Prof. Alberto Barbero, CS professor at Vallauri Technical Institute in Fossano (Italy), and the special needs educator at the Childrens Neuro Psychiatric Department at the local hospital, resulted in a project for four second year students to design applications for smartphone and Android tablets. These applications are still used by disabled children who are cared for by the educators at the N.P.I - Fossano.
TThhee ffiinnaall rreessuulltt The end product was a series of four applications and a video presentation of the making of the apps (see www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIznlx_ztWg). The students focused on developing games in four categories: puzzle, memory, color and guessing, all with different levels of difficulty. The apps were made with characters from cartoons familiar to children. The apps are used to entertain the disabled children in an educational and
TThhee aapppp:: CCoolloorr tthhee cchhaarraacctteerr Colora il personaggio Andrea ABBATE
TThhee aapppp:: MMeemmoorryy Memory Vlad ALAZAROEI
TThhee aapppp:: GGuueessss tthhee cchhaarraacctteerr Indovina il personaggio Claudio BERTAN
TThhee aapppp:: CCaarrttoooonn ppuuzzzzllee Cartoon puzzle Andrei GINJU
CCoonncclluussiioonnss The study of App Inventor in the second year is a winning choice. Increased student motivation in learning basic programming apps for Android devices. Motivation that makes students - even teenagers - aware that they have already acquired operational capabilities to be spent in designing and making software tools.
CCoonncclluussiioonnss Not just mere scholastic exercises with the principal aim of "lleeaarrnniinngg ssoommeetthhiinngg" but to "ddoo ssoommeetthhiinngg" that can be used to help someone else. A change in the way of teaching that makes the students the real protagonists of their own education process. GRAZIE PER LATTENZIONE alberto.barbero@vallauri.edu

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Presentation Alberto Barbero - MEDEAnet Webinar:Programming as creativity

  • 1. MEDEAnet WEBinar AA ccaatt,, aa kkiinngg aanndd aa rroobboott:: pprrooggrraammmmiinngg wwiitthh bblloocckkss A. Barbero IIS G. Vallauri Fossano (CN) - Italy
  • 2. The approach to Informatics in Italian secondary schools is being reshaped after the Reform of 2010. The new framework allows the introduction of computer logic and basic programming concepts beginning in the first and second grades. Basic skills Problem solving Concept of algorithm and its representation step by step Programming foundations
  • 3. IInnffoorrmmaattiiccss:: mmoorree ddiiggnniittyy tthhaann iinn tthhee ppaasstt Scratch S4A App Inventor Not only ECDL BUT Now what? NNeeww ttoooollss
  • 4. PPrrooggrraammmmiinngg ffrroomm Visual programming language developed in 2007 by a team lead by Mitchel Resnick - Lifelong Kindergarten Group of M.I.T. MediaLab GGooaall Scratch suits the curriculum that teachers sought because it was specifically created for introducing the basic concepts of problem solving and programming to young and inexperienced students FFeeaattuurreess variables and lists conditional structure iterative structure managing concurrent processes communication with messages event paradigm animations free software web 2.0
  • 6. SSeeqquueennttiiaall ssttrruuccttuurree think of a number CCoonnddiittiioonnaall ssttrruuccttuurree what kind of triangle is this?
  • 7. IItteerraattiivvee ssttrruuccttuurree guess a secret number IInntteerr-pprroocceessss ccoommmmuunniiccaattiioonn cane Bau e gatto Miao CCaatt sspprriittee DDoogg sspprriittee
  • 8. Scratch Day is an initiative launched by the creators of Scratch in order to bring together from all over the world Scratch enthusiasts with initiatives, meetings and round tables. In 2014, 186 events were organized in 46 countries around the world.
  • 10. VVaallllaauurrii DDaayy The Vallauri Institute organized during "Scratch Day 2011" the first Vallauri Scratch Day contest held within the school for students in the introductory classes of the technology sector with the aim of promoting the study of computer programming by rewarding the best projects developed using Scratch.
  • 11. VVaallllaauurrii DDaayy The first Vallauri Scratch Day contest May 21, 2011
  • 12. IIttaalliiaann SSccrraattcchh FFeessttiivvaall 2014 Edition 32 high schools from all over Italy
  • 13. IIttaalliiaann SSccrraattcchh FFeessttiivvaall Evaluation criteria: 1. technical quality: the application uses sophisticated technical tricks or ingenious solutions? 2. usability: the application is friendly and uses an intuitive interface? Is it fun to play with? 3. originality: the application is innovative? It proposes a classic in a new look? 4. aesthetic quality: the style and design are well prepared? The proposal is attractive and pleasant to see and use?
  • 14. IIttaalliiaann SSccrraattcchh FFeessttiivvaall 22001122 FFiirrsstt EEddiittiioonn 24 high schools from all over Italy
  • 17. SSccrraattcchh ffoorr AArrdduuiinnoo ((SS44AA)) Free software developed by Smalltalk Programming Group of Citilab in Barcelona New blocks that allow you to program an Arduino sprite to manage sensors and actuators Thanks to Picoboard protocol, a firmware installed on Arduino, S4A can interact with sensors and actuators.
  • 18. AArrdduuiinnoo:: mmiiccrrooccoonnttrroolllleerr bbooaarrdd TTiinnkkeerr KKiitt:: ssiimmpplliiffiieess tthhee ccoonnnneeccttiioonn ooff ddeevviicceess
  • 19. AA TTiinnkkeerrkkiitt sshhiieelldd wwiitthh vvaarriioouuss ootthheerr ccoommppoonneennttss
  • 20. TThhee LLEEDD OOnn aanndd OOffff SS44AA pprrooggrraamm HHaarrddwwaarree SSttaaggee SSccrriipptt AArrdduuiinnoo SSpprriittee
  • 21. Tool developed by Google and currently managed by MIT Media Lab Web-based IDE Programming Android mobile devices (tablet & smartphone) Blocks programming (stack & puzzle) with an approach similar to Scratch Managing of main sensors offered by the world of mobile devices OOP (components with propierties, methods and events)
  • 22. AApppp IInnvveennttoorr wweebb--bbaasseedd IIDDEE Designer Blocks Editor Android Emulator
  • 24. Blocks EEddiittoorr aanndd EEmmuullaattoorr
  • 25. TThhee pprroojjeecctt KKiiddss@@PPllaayy In March 2013, consultation between Prof. Alberto Barbero, CS professor at Vallauri Technical Institute in Fossano (Italy), and the special needs educator at the Childrens Neuro Psychiatric Department at the local hospital, resulted in a project for four second year students to design applications for smartphone and Android tablets. These applications are still used by disabled children who are cared for by the educators at the N.P.I - Fossano.
  • 26. TThhee ffiinnaall rreessuulltt The end product was a series of four applications and a video presentation of the making of the apps (see www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIznlx_ztWg). The students focused on developing games in four categories: puzzle, memory, color and guessing, all with different levels of difficulty. The apps were made with characters from cartoons familiar to children. The apps are used to entertain the disabled children in an educational and
  • 27. TThhee aapppp:: CCoolloorr tthhee cchhaarraacctteerr Colora il personaggio Andrea ABBATE
  • 28. TThhee aapppp:: MMeemmoorryy Memory Vlad ALAZAROEI
  • 29. TThhee aapppp:: GGuueessss tthhee cchhaarraacctteerr Indovina il personaggio Claudio BERTAN
  • 30. TThhee aapppp:: CCaarrttoooonn ppuuzzzzllee Cartoon puzzle Andrei GINJU
  • 31. CCoonncclluussiioonnss The study of App Inventor in the second year is a winning choice. Increased student motivation in learning basic programming apps for Android devices. Motivation that makes students - even teenagers - aware that they have already acquired operational capabilities to be spent in designing and making software tools.
  • 32. CCoonncclluussiioonnss Not just mere scholastic exercises with the principal aim of "lleeaarrnniinngg ssoommeetthhiinngg" but to "ddoo ssoommeetthhiinngg" that can be used to help someone else. A change in the way of teaching that makes the students the real protagonists of their own education process. GRAZIE PER LATTENZIONE alberto.barbero@vallauri.edu

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  1. Part I: min. 9 Part II: min. 17.07 The game Part II: min. 33 Snake Part II: min.42 Ghosts
  2. Part I: min. 9 Part II: min. 17.07 The game Part II: min. 33 Snake Part II: min.42 Ghosts