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Ethnocomputing
Virtual Studies in Computer Science
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Culture Sensitive IT-Education for Developing Countries
Thinking Tools for the Net
Software Visualization & Jeliot
Development Project for Technology Education
String Matching Algorithms for Educational Technology
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WHO & WHAT
People @ EdTech
Publications @ EdTech
CONFERENCES
ICALT 2004, August 30 - September 1, 2004
2nd International Workshop on Technology for Education in Developing Countries, August 31, 2004.
3rd International
Summer School on Educational Technology, August 23 - 27, 2004.
3rd Annual Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education - Koli Calling, 2003
Second International Conference on Educational Technology in Cultural Context, 2003
2nd International Summer School on Educational Technology, 2003
2nd Annual Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education - Koli Calling, 2002
International Conference on Educational Technology in Cultural Context, 2002
International
Summer School on Educational Technology, 2002
1st Annual Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education - Koli Calling, 2001
1st International Program Visualization Workshop, 2000
University of Joensuu
Department of Computer Science @ University of Joensuu
Academy of Finland
European Commission
European Social Fund
TEKES - National Technology Agency of Finland
ETHNOCOMPUTING
Project's web-pages:
http://cs.joensuu.fi/~ethno/
The prevailing Westernness of Computer Science is a major problem with the Computer Science education in many non-Western countries. The students not only face a new subject, but also a fundamentally different philosophy and problem solving methods.
Ethnocomputing challenges the prevailing way of thinking that in order to keep up with the West, other cultures have to adapt to Western ways of thinking. Relying on constructivist theories, our argument is that the universal theories of computing take different forms in different cultures, and that the European view on abstract ideas of computing is culturally bound, too.
Studying ethnocomputing - i.e. the computational ideas within a culture - may lead to new findings that can be used both in developing the Western view of Computer Science and in improving Computer Science education in foreign cultures.
Matti Tedre, firstname.lastname@cs.joensuu.fi