Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education
Celebrating 30+ Years of
Service to the IT in Education / E-Learning Community
Celebrating 30+ Years of
Service to the IT in Education / E-Learning Community
Keynote Speaker
Orchestration refers to designing and conducting 'integrated' learning scenarios, i.e. scenarios that combine individual activities (reading, summarizing,...), team activities (arguing, explaining, problem solving,...) and class-wide activities (lecturing, debriefing,...). The teacher has such a key role to play when conducting these complex scenarios that I dare to describe our technologies as being 'teacher centric'. The management of activities inside and outside the classroom has a physical dimension that I will illustrate with environments that are integrated into everyday artifacts (lamps, tables,...). The learners interact by manipulating physical objects (tangibles) such as tiny shelves to layout a warehouse mock-up. The use of simple paper sheets as input and output of these environments supports an integrated workflow across the different phases of a pedagogical scenario, including the teacher's routines and the students' homework. This talk is not about virtual space, it's about the physicality of classroom interactions.
Pierre Dillenbourg is full professor of computer science at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Former teacher in elementary school, Pierre graduated in educational sciences (University of Mons, Belgium). He started to do research in learning technologies in 1984. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Lancaster (UK), in the field of educational applications of artificial intelligence. He has been one of the founders of the CSCL community. His recent work covers various domains of CSCL, ranging from the design and experimentation of collaboration scripts and interactive furniture, the use of tangibles and paper-based interfaces, to more cognitive projects on dual eye tracking and mutual modelling.
