Section: Dissemination

Popularization

Internal or external Inria responsibilities

Erwan Kerrien is Chargé de Mission for scientific mediation at Inria Nancy-Grand Est, and thereby is part of the Inria scientific mediation network. As such, he is a member of the steering committee of "la Maison pour la Science de Lorraine"  ("Houses for Science" project, see http://maisons-pour-la-science.org/en), and member of the IREM  (Institut de Recherche sur l’Enseignement des Mathématiques - Research Institute for Teaching Mathematics) steering council.

Education

• Pierre-Frédéric Villard is involved with the secondary school of Champigneulles (France) as a "Collège Pilote" of "La Main à la pâte" foundation. He gave a seminar on augmented and virtual realities to the pupils, he helped the teacher with preparing some activities with augmented and virtual reality technologies. Finally, he is supervising Université de Lorraine students to produce teaching applications with augmented and virtual reality technologies that will be used in secondary school classes.

• Erwan Kerrien participated in the creation and animation of a MOOC for teachers of the new SNT class (Sciences du Numérique et Technologie - Digital Science and Technology included in the 1st year of core curriculum in upper secondary education, see https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:inria+41018+session01/about), where he brought his expertise in image processing. This MOOC is part of the Class'Code project (https://pixees.fr/classcode-v2).

  He also participates in MOOCFOLIO, a PIA3-funded project https://www.fun-mooc.fr/news/pia-3-le-projet-moocfolio-est-laureat/). The objective is to create a MOOC to help students choose their undergraduate studies to pursue after high schools. Erwan is part of a working group to create a module about studies and professions related to digital usages and sciences.

  He also participated in the creation, and teaching, of a 5-day training course for scientific animators (in a broad sense, from science club animators to science teachers). This course was funded by Région Grand-Est (see https://fan.loria.fr).

  He gave a 2-day class about the use of unplugged computer science to introduce computer science in science class, along with another researcher and 2 secondary school maths teachers. This class has been organized with Maison pour la Science since 2015, and is proposed to around 20 maths and science secondary school teachers each year.

Interventions

Erwan Kerrien was an associate researcher to a MATh.en.JEANS workshop (https://www.mathenjeans.fr) within Loritz high school in Nancy.

He also regularly intervenes to demonstrate computer science unplugged activities and/or give conferences to secondary school pupils and teachers.

Internal action

Pierre-Frédéric Villard participated to open days and science festival in the IUT of Saint-Dié des Vosges. He presented augmented and virtual reality demos and their link to the high school mathematics program.