Construit
Construit! is a programming microworld to express both ideas and models, mainly developed by the Empirical Modelling Research Group, University of Warwick. More precisely, it is a three-year Erasmus+ Project started in October 2014 and that includes six partners, led by Warwick.
Introduction
“The CONSTRUIT! project introduces new principles and tools that enable educators and learners to collaborate in creating 'construals' – live interactive resources that capture personal understandings of a phenomenon. Tools developed are more expressive and powerful than conventional programming tools, but yet accessible for everyone.” (construit.org
“Your construal of something (X) is 'how you think of X', it includes anything you might associate with X. Because you can visualise it, and interact with it, you can also 'make' it on a computer. In fact we think that making construals is a new way to use computers: one that is simpler, yet in some ways more powerful, than programming.” (Welcome to CONSTRUIT!, July 2017).
Quote from a official demo page: “Learn to digitally model the world, real or imaginary Adaptable artefacts and work environments for lessons Live and intuitive paradigm using dependency and agency Free and open-source as part of an EU Erasmus+ Project”
JS-Eden
The Construit! environment (also called JS-Eden presents itself as a series of construal "applications" or elements.
Each element can include both text and executable code. Code, e.g. instructios or parameters can be dynamically edited.
Links
- Construit.org
- Welcome to CONSTRUIT! (Univ. of Warwick)
- demo environment (Univ. Warwick)