Employing Theatrical Games to Establish and Support Onlife Learning Communities on Mathematical Principles of Informatics

Abstract

This paper presents how the PerFECt Framework for establishing and sustaining learning communities can be combined with innovative approaches of teaching mathematics using drama, to develop unplugged activities to introduce the binary system in primary and secondary school students. The resulting Human Calculator theatrical game enables students, using their bodies, to learn the binary representation of numbers and discover the algorithms of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Coursevo: A Multimedia Online Learning Platform to Support Onlife Communities and its Extension with Gamification Facilities

“…In this respect it is logically implied that the community is essentially the network, the set of nodes (people) and links between them. However, from a performative point of view (Moumoutzis et al, 2020) we should underline that if being is becoming, if self is something that is constantly changing, a dynamic process that is constantly (re)constructed then community is also a dynamic phenomenon and, consequently, a virtual community exhibits an even more dynamic evolution. In this respect, the emergence of a community, cannot only rely on vague criteria like "enough people" or "long enough" engagement in discussions and "sufficient human feelings".…”