[gcompris-devel] Global learning XPRIZE

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le 23/09/2014 00:29, Robert Lewis a écrit :
> In my view it depends individually on the child.
> My 5-year old Granddaughter amazed me by hunting around and learning the
> rules
> for maybe 50 or more Gcompris activities.  She is still 5 and always asks
> if it is ok
> for her to use the computer and she heads directly to Gcompris.  This is
> the one that
> landed on chess and had the failure I wrote about earlier.
>
> Other Grandkids that I have settled on just a few of the Gcompri programs
> and continued to work with them instead of exploring on their own.
>
Hi,

Thanks a lot for your feedback. It is always a pleasure to learn that 
our work is useful.

Back to XPRIZE, It's kind of a hard problem to approach. Nobody knows if 
there is really a solution to this problem.

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.

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:
http://learning.xprize.org/about/schedule

Bruno.