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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 23/09/2014 13:30, Aleix Pol a
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:27 AM,
Bruno Coudoin <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:bruno.coudoin@gcompris.net" target="_blank">bruno.coudoin@gcompris.net</a>></span>
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I have just been informed that the famous XPRIZE
organization support projects that<br>
develops learning solutions to empower children and
communities around<br>
the world:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://learning.xprize.org/about/overview"
target="_blank">http://learning.xprize.org/about/overview</a><br>
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While we could think GCompris is a good candidate, in the
XPRIZE<br>
solution they are much more ambitious than I have been in
requiring that<br>
"the learning solutions developed by this prize will
enable a child to<br>
learn autonomously".<br>
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I have always though GCompris has a tool to help a teacher
or a parent,<br>
not as an autonomous software. Not sure what happens when
you leave<br>
children with GCompris and no other guidance. For sure as
today, this is<br>
far from enough to learn reading.<br>
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Not sure on the KDE-EDU side if there is a project that
could be a good candidate to XPRIZE.<br>
Anyway, the interesting part is that there is money and
XPRIZE requires the project to be open source. The winner
will be free educational software.<br>
<br>
Bruno<br>
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<div>Hi Bruno,</div>
<div>Well this looks huge, I'm sure different organizations
will try to reach to this prize.</div>
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<div>In general, I'd say that KDE Edu would suffer from the
same problems GCompris does, still that said, maybe it
would be interesting if we see KDE Edu being able to be a
candidate in the challenge?</div>
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Hi,<br>
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It kind of a hard problem to approach. Nobody knows if there is
really a solution to this problem.<br>
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On the GCompris side, we could go the naive way and enhance it here
and there to provide voice instructions and thus let non reading
children play more activities. We can add activities to teach how to
write letters, activities that teaches phonemes and all we can
imagine. Technically it is not that difficult and is something we
may do even without focusing on XPRIZE.<br>
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But in my opinion we miss a scientific pedagogical guidance. Doing
the naive way may work in the field but we would have a hard time to
explain our approach and thus fail at the selection stage. Here is
the detail of the schedule:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://learning.xprize.org/about/schedule">http://learning.xprize.org/about/schedule</a><br>
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Bruno.<br>
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