[gcompris-devel] Xprize

[Emmanuel Charruau]

Hi Bruno,

I do not have a deep academic knowledge, outside Roland Goigoux, Michel
Fayol, Alain Bentolila (for writing/ reading), Brissiaud for Mathematics
and Tauveron for litterature I don't know much on academic side but it is
better if you know these one to become a teacher over here.
On the practicle side I read as much as possible in order to prepare my
class and I am a fan of active teaching.

About the progressions.

I would maybe not lock a level to another but propose a path using a sort
of tree aproach, the children know they can do the activity in the order
they want, they are free, but they also know that if they take the proper
way they will succeed much better. For a child, starting to think how he
will achieve to learn a knowledge is very important, he becomes active.
This is the principal on which works the PMEV http://www.pmev.fr an other
pedagogie related to the "education mutuelle" I spoke about yesterday.


We could build it following the "knowledge tree" from Michel Serres (by the
way that's the same guy who invented the word "ordinateur" for computing in
french).
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbre_de_connaissances
This representation in tree has the advantage to show to the children that
they improve over time. They can see with the time more and more part of
branches, more and more leaves are becoming green according to what
competences they have achieved. I have never seen any computer software
doing it but I would guess that if you could animate a timelaps of
progressions children would be aware of when they improved on what and it
would give them even more courage to learn more.

The reward is really to have a complete green branch for me. This is enough.

About children helping each other, even in the same class you have huge
differences you don't need to have difference in age :) One of the best way
to learn is to teach (Ldl approach from Martin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_by_teaching so it would be a huge
point to differentiate our project from the other if we incorporate social
in our software to make people working with each other and learn from each
other.

I even thought about something else this morning. Since in any group you
have really brilliant kids we shoudl find a way to let them create new
courses maybe more adapted to their way of life (for exemple they could
take a photo of something we don't know about and write the matching word
to create a new stage in the phonetic area ?)

A huge task but we would get amazing results.

Funny exercice for myself that you are making me doing, putting on words
everything I was thinking about since a few decades ;)

Emmanuel (Allon)




2014-09-26 0:14 GMT+02:00 Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at gcompris.net>:

>
> Le 25/09/2014 20:16, Emmanuel Charruau a écrit :
> > So for basic reading/writing I guess the challenge is possible. For
> > mathematical, geometry is feasible, and I am 100% sure that for
> > calculation/counting our method would be 100 times more efficient than
> what
> > we do in a class today in France, because it would allow kids to go to
> > their own pace.
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot for you precise study of the project. I am quiet impressed
> by the deep knowledge you have. I have not looked at your links but I
> believe you and I feel better on the pedagogical side of the project.
>
> Now, let's say we have coded the activities in GCompris that supports
> these methods. Then the project starts and we give the tablets to
> children. How do we ensure that the children are engaged in the
> activities and that they will progress into it.
>
> I had some thinking about it and maybe we can pick a gaming strategy
> where you have to pass some levels to open the next one. What kind of
> rewards can we put in place to raise and keep the interest of the
> children in progressing. Do we have to or the open approach of GCompris
> is correct in this situation.
>
> Another point we should think about. You pointed me several times that
> it is good to have children explain others. Since we will have children
> of different age, some will learn faster than others. It would be nice
> if we could one way or another encourage the best children to teach the
> others.
>
> Bruno.
>
>
>
>
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