[IAEP] Live Math 2.0 event with Alan Kay: "Important Questions in Education Research, " Saturday 2pm ET

[Maria Droujkova]

*Important Questions in Education Research*
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During the event, we will discuss the list of education research questions
Alan Kay considers fundamental, ways questions can be addressed, and reasons
why few researchers try.

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Saturday, August 7th 2010 we will meet in the LearnCentral public Elluminate
room at 11am Pacific - 2pm Eastern time. *WorldClock for your time
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Agenda
During the event, we will discuss Alan's list of important questions in
education research, and his vision of how to address the questions.

Partial list of questions:

   - Should various levels of a child's society be able to choose some of
   what a child should learn? If so, what and why?
   - What kinds of learning are we going to try to help the child
   accomplish? Case-based recognition of situations, and actions to take? Deep
   understanding and fluency that resembles practitioners in a subject area?
   Etc.
   - What is the spectrum (or the dimensions) of children's abilities to
   learn a wide variety of subjects (e.g. from sports to physics)?
   - What is the similar spectrum (or dimensions) of internal and external
   motivations for putting effort into learning various subjects?
   - How can we ascertain what kinds of help are needed by the different
   kinds of children?
   - What are the trade-offs and pathways of teaching children how to learn
   vs. teaching subject matter?
   - What are the best kinds of situations/environmens/processes to help
   children learn difficult to learn ideas?


References    Alan Kay's reading list <http://procod.com/preda/kay.html>
"The Power Of The Context" <http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004001_power.pdf> -
Alan Kay's tribute to his research community
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"Points of View: A Tribute to Alan Kay" book <http://vpri.org/pov/>

Event Host *[image: Alan_Kay.jpg]Alan Kay* is one of the earliest pioneers
of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user
interfaces. His contributions have been recognized with the Charles Stark
Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering “for the vision,
conception, and development of the first practical networked personal
computers,” the Alan M. Turing Award from the Association of Computing
Machinery “for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary
object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed
Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing,” and the
Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation “for creation of the concept of
modern personal computing and contribution to its realization.” This work
was done in the rich context of ARPA and Xerox PARC with many talented
colleagues.

He has been a Xerox Fellow, Chief Scientist of Atari, Apple Fellow, Disney
Fellow, and HP Senior Fellow. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of
Computer Science at UCLA. In 2001 he founded Viewpoints Research Institute,
a non-profit organization dedicated to children, learning and advanced
systems research. http://www.vpri.org

At Viewpoints Research Institute he and his colleagues continue to explore
advanced systems and programming design by aiming for a “Moore’s Law”
advance in software creation of many orders of magnitude. Kay and Viewpoints
are also deeply involved in the One Laptop Per Child initiative.
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