Teaching UbiComp with sense

Richards, Mike; Smith, Neil

doi:10.1145/1868914.1869024

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“…The additional analysis of publications on physical computing activities (e.g. Qiu et al, 2013;Richards and Smith, 2010;Romeike and Reichert, 2011) designed for classroom use has produced further topics. Hardware-wise the IPO-model and computer architecture in general can be taught explicitly.…”

Section: Powerful Ideas In Physical Computing Curriculamentioning

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Physical Computing and its Scope - Towards a Constructionist Computer Science Curriculum with Physical Computing

Przybylla¹,

Romeike²

2014

Informatics in Education

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Physical computing covers the design and realization of interactive objects and installations and allows students to develop concrete, tangible products of the real world, which arise from the learners' imagination. This can be used in computer science education to provide students with interesting and motivating access to the different topic areas of the subject in constructionist and creative learning environments. To make many existing activities and examples of such project ideas available for classroom use and to expand the topic areas suitable for learning in such environments beyond introductory to programming, a physical computing syllabus for computer science courses in general education schools has been developed. In this paper the methods and different perspectives that were taken into account are presented. The resulting syllabus can be used to develop a constructionist computer science curriculum with physical computing.

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Section: Powerful Ideas In Physical Computing Curriculamentioning

confidence: 99%

Physical Computing and its Scope - Towards a Constructionist Computer Science Curriculum with Physical Computing

Przybylla¹,

Romeike²

2014

Informatics in Education

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“…Sense is an extension MIT's Scratch language [12] with special features for embedded device programming and has been described in [11]. As with Scratch, students develop Sense programs by assembling visual program blocks (e.g.…”

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Educating the Internet-of-Things Generation

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As highlighted by the articles in this special issue, the concept of the Internet of Things is becoming increasingly important and understanding both the technical underpinning and wider societal impacts of the Internet of Things (IoT) will be crucial for digital citizens of the future. Building on extensive experience in delivering large--scale distance learning, The Open University has redesigned its introductory computer science curriculum to place the Internet of Things at the centre of students' experience, in a course called My Digital Life. In this article we present the design of this module, including a learning infrastructure that allows complete novices to experiment with, and learn about, Internet of Things technologies. We also share our experience of having almost 2000 students participate in the first presentation of the course, engaging in a range of activities that include collaborative and collective programming of real--world sensing applications.

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