TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

IT education:challenge the limitations, don’t limit the challenges

Evgenia Sendova – IMI, Bulgarian Academy of SciencesEliza Stefanova – FMI, Sofia University

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

Ideas in constructionist spirit we try to follow

• Learning by doing• IT as building material• Hard fun • Learning to learn• Debugging as an educational idea• Learning is a struggle (including for us, the teachers)• To study IT and acquire IT skills is important but the most

important is to use them NOW in such a way that we could cope with complex problem situations in the FUTURE

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

Vision for education

Every citizen should enter the world with:• A proud vision of self as a powerful life-long

learner• A vibrant vision of a worth-while life ahead• An optimistic vision of a society to be proud of• The skills and ethic needed to follow these

visions

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

Policy makers pay attention to IT education hoping that a young population well-educated in this modern technology will contribute to the future welth of the nation.

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

Some limitations

• The limited time in a class setting• Time needed for preparation• Difficulties when working with many students• Lack of appropriate materials• Following a fixed curriculum

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

Let us dream together…

М Е Ч Т А

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

Helping the archeologists

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

How were these two vessels used?

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

Decoding

In Sea

Water

Wine

Dolphin

Circling around

Psikter

jump

putCrater

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

We found together:

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

Computer models with Elica

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

How much wine?

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

A cup after one's likeness

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

• Coding:– Transmitting information– Why is should be hidden– How the nature is coding its

secrets– ….

Coding as the red thread

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

Cezar’s code

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

The beginning of criptography

One of the first methods for secret transmition of information

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

Frequency analysis of a textГрафинята отвори библията и преброигласните на една страница, за да видикои се срещат най-често...

Из Черните диаманти на Мор Йокан

Графинята отвори библията и преброигласните на една страница, за да видикои се срещат най-често...

Из Черните диаманти на Мор Йокан

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

Chilbolton radio telescope in Hampshire, UK

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

Acting as midwives of

teachers’ideas

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

The novelty is sometimes well forgotten old...

• The methods and the spirit of teaching are more important than the curriculum Bertrand Russel

• The biggest success of a teacher is to be able to say: My students work as if I don’t exist.

Maria Montessori• He who dares to be a teacher shouldn’t stop learning.

John Dana• If we pass to our students our love to learning they will learn to learn.

Sir John Lubock• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed

him for a lifetime.A Chinese proverb

TEMIT Workshop, Borovets, April 12, 2008

Innovative TeacherBG/05/B/P/PP-166 038

http://www.elica.net