Employing Theatrical Interactions and Audience Engagement to Enable Creative Learning Experiences in Formal and Informal Learning

Christoulakis

Sifakis

et al. 2022

SJC

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This paper presents a systematic approach to building and sustaining technology-enhanced learning communities based on a conceptual model that enables the analysis and enhancement of digital platforms and tools that promote creativity and learning. Two such software systems are presented, and their usage is analyzed. Experimental results are also presented that demonstrate the effectiveness of the conceptual model in enhancing the learning experiences offered.

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Operational Conceptual Modeling in Building and Sustaining Technology Enhanced Learning Communities

Christoulakis

Sifakis

et al. 2022

SJC

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“…Performance is, above all, a meaning making bodily practice. Consequently, it is related to rituals and other forms of spectacles and social practices (Moumoutzis et al, 2017b). Beyond the main premises and the theoretical justification of the validity of performativity, one could attribute the significance of this paradigm to an inherent dramatic quality of human experience.…”

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Employing Theatrical Games to Establish and Support Onlife Learning Communities on Mathematical Principles of Informatics

Rigas

Xanthaki

et al. 2020

DiPP

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This paper presents how the PerFECt Framework for establishing and sustaining learning communities can be combined with innovative approaches of teaching mathematics using drama, to develop unplugged activities to introduce the binary system in primary and secondary school students. The resulting Human Calculator theatrical game enables students, using their bodies, to learn the binary representation of numbers and discover the algorithms of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

“…Performance is, above all, a meaning making bodily practice. Consequently, it is related to rituals and other forms of spectacles and social practices [12]. Beyond the main premises and the theoretical justification of the validity of performativity, one could attribute the significance of this paradigm to an inherent dramatic quality of human experience.…”

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Cooking STEAM: A Case Study on Establishing a STEAM Learning Community using a Performative Framework and Cooking

New Realities, Mobile Systems and Applications

Xanthaki

Maragkoudakis

et al. 2022

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The work reported in this paper is informed by PerFECt, a performative framework supporting collaborative learning and creativity that addresses issues related to the effective use of digital technologies to establish and sustain learning communities. Its core principles are reinterpreted to implement unplugged collaborative learning activities to creatively explore sciences, technology and mathematics with special emphasis on the core principles of algorithmic design by presenting recipes in the form of flow diagrams. By presenting the execution of algorithms within a drama-based (theatrical) framework many creative explorations are offered within the so called STEAM education. The adoption of playful activities that put the children's bodies in motion is well aligned with pedagogical approaches that emphasize embodied knowledge and performance and open up opportunities for deeper personalized learning experiences that promote inclusion of children from different cultural backgrounds.