Participative tools emerging at the CRI Learning, teaching and doing research in a connected world. visit: http://www.cri-paris.org/

1. PARTICIPATIVE TOOLS
EMERGING AT THE CRI
LEARNING, TEACHING, AND DOING RESEARCH
IN A CONNECTED WORLD
Amodsen Chotia
Institut Innovant de Formation par la Recherche
Sorbonne Paris Cité
Université Paris Descartes

2. General context
Bring new tools to traditionnal education, encourage lifelong learning
Engage learners
Change scale
Develop under represented skills
Online course
Experiment new postures
Reinforce creativity, engagement and motivation
Frugal technology

3. Highlighted tools
Jesse Himmelstein
Mikael Couzic
Raphael Goujet
Dor Garbash
And a long list of developpers +80
Tam Kien Duong
Christos Tsiapalis
Dmitry Paranyushkin
Pauline Gourlet
Uli Steiner
Dusan Misevic
Brogniart Benjamin
Collet Pierre
Goujet Raphael
Leflour Yann
Leung Armella
Shomar Helena

4. Tools to annotate and organize
information

5. How does it work?

6. Overview

7. Overview

8. Features for self-organization

9. Connectivist online course

10. Future use cases
http://www.rhizi.org/

11. WeKeyPedia
Tool for collective consciousness

12. Too rich to fit all levels

13. One path?

14. Ideal paths

15. Adapted difficulty
Change the difficulty level while reading
Some sections may not exist in other versions

16. Analyzing keywords and
building paths

17. Tools for crowdsourcing
Lowering the barrier
AgeGuess
How old do you look like?

18. Redwire
Take part of one game, mix it with another one, and
then modify it to make a new one
New game engine, with different goals
Made for remixing games and mashups
Electronics-inspired visual programming
Excellent debugging and live coding tools
All done in the browser

19. Why a new game engine?
We have:
A kabillion libraries
A billion game engines
A million programming languages
Classes
Unit tests
Entity Component Systems
Blocks
Distributed Version Control
Virtual machines
Functions
End to end tests
Metaclasses
Interleaving -> incomprehension
Lessons
Avoid tangling
Leave data alone
Sane abstractions for state and time
Rich Hickey
"Simple made Easy"

20. Inspiration
Breadboard
Connect anything
Measure anywhere
Replace everything

21. Putting order
Chip
<pin>
<pin>
Chip
<pin>
<pin>
Memory
<data>
<data>
<data>
1. Memory -> Chips
2. Chips compute
3. Chips -> Memory
constant
in out

22. IO
Chip
<pin>
<pin>
Memory
<data>
<data>
<data>
1. IO & Memory -> Chips
2. Chips compute
3. Chips -> IO & Memory
IO
mouse
keyboard
graphics

23. Collaboration
Move
speed
position
Memory
speed
position
IO
mouse
keyboard
graphics
Draw
position
shape

24. Chips
Emitter
SwitchProcessor
Splitter

25. Examples
Archimedes' Escape Leap
Weizmann Institute
Redwire.io

26. Cool debugging/teaching tools
“What would have happened”
“Mute” chips
Find chips from memory or IO
Test each chip in isolation
Brett Victor
”Inventing on Principle”
github.com/CyberCRI/RedWire
@RedWireIO
jesse.himmelstein@parisdescartes.fr
+JesseHimmelstein
@himmelattack

27. AgeGuess
Crowdsourcing human aging research
What is AgeGuess?
AgeGuess is a simple on-line
game in which you can post
your photos, have other people
guess your age, as well as guess
the age of other users.
The science behind AgeGuess
AgeGuess investigates the
differences between perceived
age (how old you look) and
chronological age (your age) as a
potential aging biomarker.
AgeGuess

28. Open questions:
Is the guessed age a predictor
for survivial?
Heritablility of the perceived vs
chronological age?
Does age guessing depends
on…?
…
AgeGuess
Crowdsourcing human aging research
Dusan Misevic
Dule@alife.org
Ulrich Steiner
Usteiner@biology.sdu.dk
AgeGuess

29. Gaming for education and
research
International game competition for education and research

30. RBSPromoter TerminatorGene
WHEN? WHAT?HOW
MUCH?
End
4 types of
‘Briobricks’
Genetic
device
Cellular ability

31. Gameplay loops
EASY
Play with ‘devices’

32. Gameplay loops
MEDIUM
Play with ‘BioBricks’
RFP
‘Biobrick’ picked up:
Gene to produce the Red
Fluorescent Protein
Craft new device

33. Gameplay loops
HARD
Create synergies between ‘devices’
RF
P
TetR
AmpR LacIpTet
Craft complex devices to create genetic
networks
Bi-stable switch between
RFP and Ampicillin
Resistance
IPTG
aTc

34. Global scheme
Interest people with games, entry level citizen science projet, social
questions, debates
Teach them (Online course, University degrees, Clubs, informal
meetings)
Incite them to ask a question and develop ideas to anwer them with
a research methodology (Citizen science, entrepreneurs challenges,
competition, diploma projects)
Implement (Regular labs, open prototyping laboratory)
Build up a community to scale up and spin-off
Repeat
Perfect crapiness
Perfect fit
Perfect for
research