[gcompris-devel] GCompris at Swiss schools

[Mario Fux]

Am Dienstag, 18. Februar 2003 12.44 schrieb Bruno Coudoin:

Salve together

And sorry for the late answer.

> We have to take care of what can be done with automatic tracing of kids
> activity.
> Implementing a such feature means that each kid is identified before
> playing, it can be boring and done wrong. In this case, you will note
> the wrong person !!
>
> If we trace kids, we may have under certain legislation to request
> authorisation to organism (like the CNIL in france). The kids should be
> warned that they are traced, and should have a right to refuse it !!
>
> I personnally would not appreciate if my kids were traced this way. I
> don't want to give the opportunity to others to do so.

I understand and agree with you.

> Now, I understand the need when you have 10 computers/kids around to
> implement 'some tracing'.
>
> What I propose is that we provide an history of the activity played in
> the current session with no 'save trace' capabilities.
> If another kids take the computer and want (or the teacher) want to
> trace him, the teacher will either restart gcompris or reset the trace.
> When the kid complete what the teacher asked to do or his time frame,
> the teacher can come, click on the history button in gcompris and see
> what the kid has done. The teacher can then discuss with the kid, help
> him on its weakness and report the trace on a paper if the teacher need
> it.
>
> Now, would this be OK for your needs Mario ?

It's not exactly what I thought about but it's a very interesting idea too.
I thought only about a little statistic in each (or each useful) board how 
many tasks were made correct and how many wrong (e.g. the algebra boards) 
close before you leave the board. In this way the child can see: Oh, 3 
questions were wrong, the rest was ok.

Here following some other ideas:
- Put the words in alphabetical order
- Write singular or plural of some words (needs a word database)
- Dictations
- etc.

> Bruno.

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