New Image of Programming: In Search of an Educationally Powerful Concept Technological Fluency

该项目旨在描述一种新的编程愿景， 这是为了定义和完善技术创新的概念， 流畅性是学习能力的源泉。 我们的构造师 理论引导我们将技术知识视为“反身的”， 它不仅本身有价值，而且能够增强 学习很多其他的东西。 在过去，重点是 一直在编程作为最方便的形式， 反身性知识 现在新的想法和先进的计算机 使技术的这种作用有可能戏剧性地扩展， 流畅 编程继续提供一个自然的进入路线， 但在这个新的背景下， 手段 作为一种发展和研究这一扩展概念的手段， 在方案规划方面，建议开展三项互补活动。 在 “Pogramming范式”活动，重点是转移 新的计算框架，特别是多处理， 教育 在机器人学活动中，经典的构造 套件，包括新的计算元素。 在“软件 设计”活动，学习发生时， 儿童开发完整的多媒体软件产品， 供他人使用的设计将得到探讨。 这三 活动涉及技术开发。 但在每一个案例中， 主要重点是概念发展和新的教育 问题和战略。 在每一项活动中， 它的技术和理念与学校密切互动 尤其是那些传统上 不应得的或智力上被剥夺的权利将被研究。

This project seeks to describe a new vision of programming, as part of an effort to define and refine the idea of technological fluency as a source of learning power. Our Constructionist theory leads us to view technological knowledge as "reflexive," valuable not only in its own right, but also capable of enhancing the learning of many other things. In the past, th focus has been on programming as the most accessible form of such reflexive knowledge. Now new ideas and new advanced computers make possible a dramatic extension of this role of technological fluency. Programming continues to provide a natural entry route, but in this new context a new sense of what programming means. As a means of developing and studying this extended notion of programming, three complementary activities are in proposed. In the "Pogramming Paradigms" activity, the focus is on transferring new computational frameworks, most notably multiprocessing, into education. In the Robotics activity, the classical construction kit to include new computational elements. In the "Software Design" activity, the learning that takes place when children develop complete, multimedia software "products," designed for use by others will be explored. Each of these three activities involves technology development. But in each case, the main focus is on conceptual development and new educational issues and strategies. In each activity, the appropriability of its technologies and its ideas in close interaction with schools and particularly with communities that have traditionally been undeserved or intellectually disenfranchised will be studied.