developmental consultation for children ages 11-13

[Timothée Giet]

Hi Javier,

To complete the answer from Emmanuel, if I understand correctly what you
are asking, I think it could be a problem to include such content by
default in GCompris for at least two reasons:

-This list of words seems to be very cultural/locale-specific, and is
probably not very relevant for other languages/countries.

-To include words in an activity like the vocabulary activity, each word
needs to have a corresponding image. And all those images need to be
under a compatible license (that is, to make it simple, either public
domain/CC-0 or CC-BY-(SA)-4.0). It can be a complicated task to find
suitable images under a compatible license for all those words, and for
things like songs or singers, it might just be impossible. The other
(maybe less critical) issue I can see with adding more images to the
vocabulary activity would be from a visual-style point of view, as
currently all this activity is using a unique huge set of images with a
specific drawing style, and so adding more words with photos or drawings
of a different style would not fit good.

And one more little issue I could see: our user target is children up to
10 years old (which doesn't prevent older children or adults to use it,
but it's our official target). So a dataset of vocabulary used by 11 to
13 years old children might not be the best fit.

Regards,
Timothée

Le 08/06/2022 à 14:21, Emmanuel Charruau a écrit :
> Hi Javier,
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> I need a bit more info to understand the goal of this project.
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> We need to make sure first of all that all the material is open source.
> Do you already have an idea under which form it would be integrated?
> We have the nice activity based on the 3 steps principal:
> - Teacher tell the word
> - Pupil must point an image once the word is given
> - Pupil must tell the name of the image
> You can find the activty using the search tool (open right in
> GCompris) and type enrich your vocabulary.
> Is it what you had in mind?
> GCompris is translated in about 50 languages, I am not sure we can put
> songs or singers as this is too localized.
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> I have a doubt, is it an activity that your colleague would like to
> use for her doctoral theses?
> Regards,
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> Emmanuel
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> Le mer. 8 juin 2022 à 13:59, Javierbuilder
> <javierbuilder at protonmail.ch <mailto:javierbuilder at protonmail.ch>> a
> écrit :
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>     Dear good morning,
>     My co-worker is doing her doctoral thesis and her fieldwork is on
>     literacy for children from 11 to 13 years old. She has a list of
>     words for themes for the vocabulary universe of the boys, a list
>     of songs, singers, posters in her neighborhood, butcher shop,
>     greengrocer, with what one uses socially.
>
>     I want to ask you if you see it possible to carry out this
>     integration in gcompris.
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>     My name is Javier Barcena I live in Argentina,
>      in the province of Tucuman and I am a member of the board of the
>     fsfla.org <http://fsfla.org> and I work in a research institute on
>     socio-educational inclusion. I am willing to write code and
>     documentation if necessary.
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>     Thanks in advance for your project.
>     keep in contact.
>      best regards
>
>     Javier Barcena
>     +542944898344
>
>     Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/> secure email.
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