The paper describes some initial experiences in involving users from Tanzania in the development ... more The paper describes some initial experiences in involving users from Tanzania in the development of I-BLOCKS technology for the African cultural context. Users of the intelligent building blocks (I-BLOCKS) can do 'programming by building' and thereby construct functionality of artefacts in an intuitive manner without the need to learn and use traditional programming languages. We allow both secondary school pupils and university students in Tanzania to investigate possibilities by building with I-BLOCKS within three scenarios, for (1) mathematical training, (2) emotion construction, and (3) language grammar training. Based on the experience, the pupils and students engaged in description of future development of the technology, e.g. by developing concept maps for African I-Blocks.
The paper describes some initial experiences in involving users from Tanzania in the development ... more The paper describes some initial experiences in involving users from Tanzania in the development of I-BLOCKS technology for the African cultural context. Users of the intelligent building blocks (I-BLOCKS) can do 'programming by building' and thereby construct functionality of artefacts in an intuitive manner without the need to learn and use traditional programming languages. We allow both secondary school pupils and university students in Tanzania to investigate possibilities by building with I-BLOCKS within three scenarios, for (1) mathematical training, (2) emotion construction, and (3) language grammar training. Based on the experience, the pupils and students engaged in description of future development of the technology, e.g. by developing concept maps for African I-Blocks.
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