Many things have kept me away from blogging. This post is about the first, refining a paper that has been accepted at epiSTEM6. epiSTEM is a biennial Conference Series, to Review Research in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education conducted by Homi Baba Center of Science Education and IIT Bombay.
As Heidi Watts who helped me rethink the paper put it the paper now is about how children learn rather than about mathematics or computers. It has case studies on how children have learnt by trying to explain something to the computer through programming.
Thanks also to Vaibhav who proof read the first version that got accepted, but both he and I knew it wasn't up to the mark then :).
Below is the abstract. Here is the link to the paper.
Using programming with
rural children For Learning to think mathematically
Aura
Auro Design, SAIIER (Auroville, India), sanjeev@auraauro.com
Is
it possible to use computer labs in a rural setting that encourages
reasoning, visualization, abstraction in children (as envisioned in
NCF 2005) while at the same time addressing curricular needs?
This
paper addresses the question through the use of programming in two
rural schools including integration of curricular areas for
fractions, cube roots, algebra, compound interest, data handling,
geometry, etc.
We
explore three styles of instruction - projects for children to
demonstrate their understanding, challenges to visualize abstract
concepts, and games created by children themselves for mastery.
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