TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED NATURAL LEARNING

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TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED NATURAL LEARNING

• TEL05 Sofia, Bulgaria

Pavel Boytchev boytchev_p_at_yahoo.com
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About This Presentation

• Some random thoughts about TEL
• Natural Learning
• Demonstration

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Some RandomThoughts About TEL
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The Focus of TEL (QnoA)

• What is the main focus of TEL?
• is it technology ?
• or is it enhanced ?
• or maybe it is learning ?
• What is the most influential technology
  invention?
• the book (clear interface, intuitive, transparent
  technology)
• can we compete with the book?
• should we?

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Technology - Pros Cons

• Advantages of technology - AAA
• Technology is attractive
• Technology is available
• Technology is addictive
• Disadvantages of technology - AAA
• Technology is attractive
• Technology is available
• Technology is addictive

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Technology As A Black Hole

• If you get too close, the technology may gulp you
  down - getting out is difficult and sometimes
  impossible
• If you are too far away, you may never experience
  the benefits of technology
• It is important to figure out the right balance
  of using technology gravity in order to
  accelerate further in the Space of Learning.

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Natural Learning
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Natural Learning

• Types
• Forced Learning (focus on learning itself)
• Natural Learning (focus on goal)
• Methods for naturalizing learning
• - changing focus (edutainment, games, etc)
• - relating complex technology to natural processes

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OOP and NOOP

• Object-oriented programming
• complex terminology, needs forced learning
• Natural object-oriented programming
• natural terminology (related to evolution)
• natural learning, transparent technology
• Technology Enhanced Natural Learning
• NOOP-Technology Enhanced Learning of OOP

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Elica

• Educational Logo Interface for Creative
  Activities
• Modern Logo dialect
• Natural OOP
• 3D graphics and animation
• Free, Windows-only
• URL www.elica.net

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Evolution Metaphor In Elica

• OOP
• classesobjectsfieldsmethodsinheritance

NOOP speciescreaturespropertiesbehaviorinherit
ance
NOOP technology gives a meaning tocloning,
mutation, pregnancy, birth,incarnation,
adoption, death, murder, ...
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Examples Of Birth

• cloning (creating by assignment)The most
  primitive creatures reproduce by cloning - i.e.
  creation of exact copies (Samples 1)
• playing God (creating field by field)Defining
  properties/behavior one at a time (Sample 2)
• mutation (creating by modification)Changing
  (fixing) existing object (Sample 3)
• natural birth (creating from classes)A birth of
  a new creature from specific specie (i.e. the
  class) that determines its features (Sample 4)

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The Life Of A Function - 1

• to mathy x y
• local "sum "sub
• make "sum xy
• make "sub x-y
• print x " y " sum
• print x "- y " sub
• end
• mathy 7 3

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The Life Of A Function - 2
to mathy x y local "sum "sub make "sum
xy make "sub x-y print x " y "
sum print x "- y " sub end make "a mathy 8
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mathy
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Application Of NOOP

• Covers all aspects of OOP (except security)
• Powerful enough to recreate Logo
• Elica core has 10 reserved words
• Logo language recreated as an object
• other Logo implementations
• Objects suitable for
• learning OOP
• 3D graphics and animation
• virtual models and simulations

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Demonstrations
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The End