Case of Reform on School and Higher Education

Maitree Inprasitha, Ph.D.

Vice President for Education and Academic Services, Khon Kaen University, Thailand (KKU) Acting Director, Institute for Research and Development for Teaching Profession for ASEAN

President, Thailand Society of Mathematics Education (TSMEd) APEC HRD Lesson Study Project Overseers

International Committee (IC) of PME

Case of Reform on School and Higher Education

“Computational Thinking ”

2000

2

1999

2001

started small community of Lesson Study with a group of student teachers (15 students)

started on how to change the way of teaching focusing on changing

the problem we use in mathematical activity

Plane 30 years project (2000 - 2030)

2002

first group of student teachers started implementing "open- ended problems" in 7 schools nearby Khon

Kaen City

2003 2005

tried the idea of using "open-ended problems" to create mathematical

activities with 800 teachers in Khon Kaen Province

2006

2007

started 4 project schools using "whole

school approach" to implement "lesson

study" and "Open Approach"

2009 2012 2013

expanded to 23 schools in the northeast and

northern parts of Thailand

2005 - present started APEC Lesson Study Community in APEC and Non-APEC members economies

2017

2013 - present expanded to 120 schools across the countries.

2030 The Khon Kaen 30 years project (2000 - 2030)

2021-2030

Invested in HRD Strengthen Network

Expand across the country and

region

Higher-order Thinking Project

2000-2010 2011-2020

What is Computational Thinking?

“The only way to rectify our reasoning is to make them as tangible as those of the mathematicians, so that we can find our error at a glance, and when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate, without further ado, to see who is right”.

(Leibnitz, 1685)

This means, decomposing arguments in term of thousands of simple

units, which can be recombined and thus able to be expressed and performed as

mechanical computations.

What is Computational Thinking?

“Computational Thinking is the thought

processes involved in formulating a problem and expressing its solution(s) in such a way that a

computer – human or machine – can effectively carry out ”.

(Jeannette Wing, 2006)

What is Computational Thinking?

“Computational Thinking is understood as a problem solving paradigm of mathematizing a problem in such a way that the computer can execute it.”

(Tin Lam, 2020)

Computational Thinking is very powerful for

Problem Solving

Figure 1: Programming Thinking adapted from Kano (2020)

What students

need to be?

Computational thinking has close connections with epistemology, ethics

and wisdom

All of them share several core concepts such as knowledge,

learning, and

values

Computational thinking provide tools to design

intelligent and moral artificial agents that accompanies and

give emotional and intelligent support to us.

Consider the case of an accident in an autonomous vehicle.

Who is responsible?

What happens if the accident is due to a system error, or due to an error in design flaws?

But what happens if the vehicle learns autonomously?

Figure 2: Curriculum Framework for Computational Thinking on InMside

This model will become the reference

implementation framework model in carrying out the design process of curriculum formulation and

implementation of the new curriculum proposed in each APEC member economies for

high school,

middle school and

primary school respectively.

Maitree Inprasitha, Ph.D.

Vice President for Education and Academic Services, Khon Kaen University, Thailand (KKU) Acting Director, Institute for Research and Development for Teaching Profession for ASEAN

President, Thailand Society of Mathematics Education (TSMEd) APEC HRD Lesson Study Project Overseers

International Committee (IC) of PME

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