Section: Dissemination

Popularization

Internal or external Inria responsibilities

F. Masseglia is “Chargé de mission auprès de la DGD-S Inria pour la médiation scientifique” (50% of his time) and heads Inria's national network of colleagues involved in science popularization (https://www.inria.fr/recherches/mediation-scientifique/actions-de-mediation-scientifique/presentation)

Articles and contents

Alexis Joly participated to the realization of a report on "Deep Learning and Agriculture" edited by the AgroTIC chair (https://www.agrotic.org/). He co-authored on article on data collection in citizen science projects [37].

Education

Teaching code is now officially in the school programs in France. Class'Code is a PIA project that aims at training the needed 300,000 teachers and professionals of education France. The project is a hybrid MOOC (both online courses and physical meetings). Florent Masseglia is co-author of the first course and scientific referent of the other courses.

Along with Class'Code, the association “La main à la pâte” has coordinated the writing of a school book on the teaching of computer science teaching, with Inria (Gilles Dowek, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Florent Masseglia and Didier Roy), France-IOI and the University of Lorraine. The book has been requested by and distributed to 15,000 readers in less than one month. The extension of this book for the French "Collège" has been released in 2017 with new activities and new scientific content.

F. Masseglia is giving a doctoral training at different doctoral schools in Montpellier, in order to train facilitators for helping teachers and people of the education world to better understand the "computational thinking". So far, 14 people have been trained.

P. Valduriez gave an invited talk on "Succeed in your Ph.D. Thesis: good practices and return of experience" at the Ph.D. meeting at LIRIS, Lyon, on December 11.

F. Masseglia is member of the pedagogic committee of "Edu'up", a project from France-IOI on learning code and computational thinking.

F. Masseglia gave a one day training session to school teachers in Créteil, on October 3.

Alexis Joly gave about 15 hours of professional training in the use of digital tools for environmental education (Pl@ntNet, ThePlantGame and Smart'Flore).

Interventions

Zenith participated to the following events:

• F. Masseglia co-organized the regional Code-Week events with the local network of media-library ("réseau des médiathèques de Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole").

• F. Masseglia is member of the project selection committee for “La fête de la science” in Montpellier.

• F. Masseglia animated a stand at the "semaine de la mémoire" event organized by Genopolys (September 20&21).

• F. Masseglia participated in a class visit, at Saussan, with Charles Torossian (co-author of the "Vallani-Torossian" report) and the rectrice, about code teaching.

Internal action

F. Masseglia organized, and participated to, a 2 days training session on the Poppy Ergo Jr robot (June 25&26).

Creation of media or tools for science outreach

In the context of the Floris'tic project, A. Joly participates regularly to popularization, educational and citizen science actions in France (with schools, cities, parks, associations, etc.). The softwares developed within the project (Pl@ntNet, Smart’Flore and ThePlantGame) are used in a growing number of formal educational programs and informal educational actions of individual teachers. For instance, Smart’Flore is used by the French National Education in a program for reducing early school leaving. Pl@ntNet app is used in the Reunion island in an educational action called Vegetal riddle organized by the Center for cooperation at school. It is also used in a large-scale program in Czech republic and Slovakia (with a total of 100 classrooms involved in the program). An impact study of the Pl@ntNet application did show that $6\%$ of the respondents use it for educational purposes in the context of their professional activity.

F. Masseglia participated in the work group on "Jeu des 7 familles de l'informatique". This card game, to be announced officially in January 2019, provides support for education to computer science from the history point of view.