CONSTRUCTIONISM 2016: CONSTRUCTIONISM IN ACTION 2016
PROGRAM

Days: Monday, February 1st Tuesday, February 2nd Wednesday, February 3rd Thursday, February 4th Friday, February 5th Saturday, February 6th Sunday, February 7th

Monday, February 1st

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18:00-20:00 Session : Welcome Recption
Location: School Lobby (1 fl)
Tuesday, February 2nd

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09:00-09:15 Session : Opening Ceremony
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
09:15-09:45 Session 1: Special Keynote
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
09:15
Sparks from the Spirit: Role of Learning in Constructing and Using Knowledge ( abstract )
10:00-10:30 Session 2: Opening Keynote
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
10:00
Constructionism the Thailand Way ( abstract )
10:30-11:00 Session : Break
Location: 2nd fl open space
11:00-12:30 Session 3: Plenary 1

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Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
11:00
Darunsikkhailai and its 15 years improvisation on Samba School ( abstract )
11:45
Costa Rica's Omar Dengo Foundation Program: 29 years later ( abstract )
12:30-13:30 Session : Lunch
Location: Cafeteria (5 fl)
15:30-15:45 Session : Break
Location: 2nd fl open space
15:45-17:45 Session 5A: Poster Session
Location: Gymnasium (2 fl)
15:45
Compassion and Empathy through Inventions: GoGo Board Toolkit for 7-10 years old ( abstract )
15:45
What's New in Snap! and BJC ( abstract )
15:45
A new robot in a classroom ( abstract )
15:45
Bots for Tots: Leveraging ‘Ways of Knowing’ to Increase Diversity in Makerspaces ( abstract )
15:45
Workshop of Game Programming in Scratch ( abstract )
15:45
Little Builders: Empowering At-risk Children by Building and Design ( abstract )
15:45
Robot Programming Workshop for Middle and High School Girls ( abstract )
15:45
Bridge of popsicle sticks: A project and a contest ( abstract )
15:45
A practical report on a course of learning by making at the university in Japan ( abstract )
15:45
Philological philosophy, simplistic science, misleading mathematics, perfidious perception, trusty technology ( abstract )
15:45
After Scratch: Logo(Writer)? ( abstract )
15:45
On controlling LEGO Education platforms from Imagine Logo ( abstract )
15:45
Teaching programming constructively and playfully ( abstract )
15:45
Increasing Learning Gain in Linear Algebra through Play ( abstract )
15:45-17:45 Session 5B: Demos
Location: Gymnasium (2 fl)
15:45
Tatrabot - a mobile robotic platform for teaching programming ( abstract )
15:45
Learning About Complex Systems with the BeeSmart Participatory Simulation ( abstract )
15:45
JumpSmart: A Platform for Communal Making and Physical Engagement in Programming ( abstract )
15:45
Pyonkee: A Scratch compatible visual-programming environment running on iPad ( abstract )
15:45
Analyzing Twitter Data using Snap! ( abstract )
Wednesday, February 3rd

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09:00-10:00 Session 6: Plenary 2
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
09:00
On the Road to Sustainable Primary Programming ( abstract )
10:00-10:30 Session : Break
Location: 2nd fl open space
10:30-12:30 Session 7A: Papers: Programming in the 21st Century
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
10:30
Grounding How We Teach Programming in Why We Teach Programming ( abstract )
11:00
What would the ideal constructionist programming language (or languages) be like? ( abstract )
11:45
Constructionism and the Internet of Things ( abstract )
10:30-12:30 Session 7B: Papers: Programming in Context
Location: Library (9 fl)
10:30
Game Design with Pocket Code: Providing a Constructionist Environment for Girls in the School Context ( abstract )
11:00
Music Blocks: A Musical Microworld ( abstract )
11:30
Working toward Equity in a Constructionist Scratch Camp: Lessons Learned in Applying a Studio Design Model ( abstract )
12:00
Designing Interfaces for Special Needs ( abstract )
10:30-12:30 Session 7C: Papers: Constructionism & New Ideas
Location: Constructionism Lab (10 fl)
10:30
Papert's sort-of-right mathematics ( abstract )
11:00
Resituating Constructionism in the Space of Reasons ( abstract )
11:30
Teachers’ Constructionist and Deconstructionist Learning by Creating Bebras Tasks ( abstract )
12:00
Construing and Computing: Learning through Exploring and Exploiting Agency ( abstract )
13:30-15:15 Session 8A: Papers: Case Studies & New Approaches
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
13:30
A new Model for Eliciting Engineering Expertise from Novices: Expect non-Experts to Behave Like Experts ( abstract )
14:00
Communities of Learning Designers in Japan – From constructing products to constructing communities – ( abstract )
14:45
Restructuration in Practice: Challenging a Pop-Culture Evolutionary Theory through Agent Based Modeling ( abstract )
13:30-15:15 Session 8B: Papers: Reflections & Next Steps for Constructionism
Location: Library (9 fl)
13:30
Constructionist activity with institutionalized infrastructures: the case of Dimitris and his students. ( abstract )
14:00
Building mathematical knowledge with programming: insights from the ScratchMaths project ( abstract )
14:30
Making Constructionism Real in Real Schools Every Day ( abstract )
13:30-15:15 Session 8C: Papers: School Experiences
Location: Constructionism Lab (10 fl)
13:30
Generalization processes: an experience using eXpresser with primary-school children ( abstract )
14:00
Constructionism as making construals: first steps with JS-Eden in the classroom ( abstract )
14:30
Constructionism and microworlds as part of a 21st century learning activity to impact student engagement and confidence in physics ( abstract )
15:15-15:45 Session : Break
Location: 2nd & 9th fl open space
15:45-18:15 Session 9A: workshop
Location: Constructionism Lab (10 fl)
15:45
Developing Computational Thinking by Using Constructionist and Deconstructionist Learning ( abstract )
15:45-18:15 Session 9B: workshop
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
15:45
World Peace Song Project ( abstract )
15:45-18:15 Session 9C: workshop
Location: Library (9 fl)
15:45
Music Blocks Workshop ( abstract )
15:45-18:15 Session 9D: workshop
Location: Meeting Room 605 (6 fl)
15:45
Constructionist Archaeology - Digging into Papert Papers Lost and Found ( abstract )
Thursday, February 4th

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09:00-10:00 Session 10: Plenary 3
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
09:00
Report from the Future: The Next Generation High School ( abstract )
10:45-11:00 Session : Break
Location: 2nd fl open space
12:15-13:00 Session : Lunch
Location: Cafeteria (5 fl)
13:45-14:45 Session 14A: Papers: Early Childhood
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
13:45
Inquiry Based Learning Project: a study of doing science with elementary public school students ( abstract )
13:45-14:45 Session 14B: Papers: New Tools & Activities
Location: Library (9 fl)
13:45
Constructionist Learning at the Group Level with Programmable Badges ( abstract )
14:15
Integrating programming languages with web browsers ( abstract )
13:45-14:45 Session 14C: Papers: Working with Teachers
Location: Constructionism Lab (10 fl)
13:45
Teaching Computer Science Teachers: A Constructionist Approach to Professional Training on Physical Computing ( abstract )
14:15
Preparing teachers for the Digital Technologies Curriculum: Preliminary results of a pilot study ( abstract )
14:45-15:00 Session : Break
Location: 2nd & 9th fl open space
15:00-17:30 Session 15A: workshop
Location: Library (9 fl)
15:00
Considering approaches to research through the lens of constructionism ( abstract )
15:00-17:30 Session 15B: workshop
Location: Constructionism Lab (10 fl)
15:00
LevelSpace: Constructing Models and Explanations across Levels ( abstract )
15:00-17:30 Session 15C: workshop
Location: Meeting Room 605 (6 fl)
15:00
New Frontiers in Educational Robotics with the Raspberry Pi and the GoGo Board ( abstract )
Friday, February 5th

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09:00-10:00 Session 16: Plenary 4
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
09:00
Constructionism Lifetime Achievement Award ( abstract )
10:00-10:30 Session : Break
Location: 2nd fl open space
10:30-12:30 Session 17A: Papers: Math, Programming, Robots
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
10:30
Summer League: Supporting FLL Competition ( abstract )
11:00
Learning Intentions and Educational Robots ( abstract )
11:30
Math-based Coding Education in Korean School ( abstract )
12:00
3D turtle coding activities for Korean primary education ( abstract )
10:30-12:30 Session 17B: Papers: Emotion & Engagement
Location: Library (9 fl)
10:30
Beyond lesson recipes: first steps towards a repertoire for teaching primary computing ( abstract )
11:00
Assessing Interpersonal Relationship Among Peers in a Constructionist Classroom: a Probabilistic Method ( abstract )
11:30
Learning Emotional Aspects of Digital Competence By Creating Artefacts ( abstract )
12:00
Samba School of the 21st Century : Learning in the Break Dance Community in Bangkok ( abstract )
10:30-12:30 Session 17C: Papers: Tools & Powerful Ideas
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Location: Constructionism Lab (10 fl)
10:30
Exploring randomness and variability in statistics through R-based programming tasks ( abstract )
11:00
Programming videogames with models of physical parameters: some examples ( abstract )
11:30
The Imaginatorium ( abstract )
12:00
Turtles All the Way Down: Presenting LevelSpace, a NetLogo Extension for Reasoning about Complex Connectedness ( abstract )
13:30-16:00 Session 18A: workshop
Location: Constructionism Lab (10 fl)
13:30
NetLogo Web: Bringing Turtles to the Cloud ( abstract )
13:30-16:00 Session 18B: workshop
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
13:30
And now for something completely different: ToonTalk - a programming language that is not textual, block-based, or procedural ( abstract )
13:30-16:00 Session 18C: workshop
Location: Library (9 fl)
13:30
Videogame construction with models of physical parameters ( abstract )
16:00-16:30 Session : Break
Location: 2nd fl open space
16:30-17:30 Session 19: Plenary 5
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
16:30
Computational Thinking in School: reviving programming in the context of digital culture ( abstract )
17:30-17:45 Session : Closing
Location: Main Auditorium (2 fl)
Saturday, February 6th

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Sunday, February 7th

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