[kde-edu]: Math Software for young children

[Jim Fuqua]

Any central framework should provide for collection and storage of all
collectable data. 

This would include milliseconds between keystrokes and mouse clicks,
every keystroke and every mouse click and every wrong answer. 

With such data it would be easier to evaluate both the program and the
student.  Data mining tools could make discoveries over time that would
elude humans scanning the data. Whether the student enters a wrong or
correct answer is only part of the data.

Jim Fuqua


On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 20:29 +0100, Mario Fux wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 25. Januar 2005 18.04 schrieb Master Maths:
> 
> Morning
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Hello all
> >
> > We all recognize the need for a central framework for kde-edu to become
> > anything more than just a collection of software. But this list is
> > waaayyyy too quit if we want to implement something like that.
> > We should have a lot more dialog on this matter, including developers,
> > users, artist, educators everyone involved on this list.
> >
> > This will be a big project and will take many hands to make it work.
> > That is probably the biggest problem with getting this of the ground, who
> > is going to do the work?
> >
> > Probably the easiest way to get started is to take some current project
> > that will give us most of the basics that we can build on, maybe Arnold's
> > work in kdenonbeta, or perhaps look at KDevelop, chop what we don't need
> > and go from there.
> > Most of what we could need is already part of KDevelop.
> >
> > All the gurus can't stop shouting to use KParts so maybe we should.
> >
> > Anna-Marie has asked for some ideas so here's mine.
> >
> > We use a very effective CBT (Computer Based Training) system at work, and
> > like many other similar systems it uses voice and flash animations to
> > teach the theory and application of Maths. It is server-client based
> > system that "pushes" modules requested by the clients. It also keeps a
> > record of the progress made for each user on the system.
> 
> Just a hint or idea: Use the data of wikimedia.org and their different modules 
> (Wikibooks, Wikipedia, Wiki Commons, Wikispecies etc. and the new one, 
> Wikiversity).
> 
> > If we are in any way to live up to our edu label we are going the have to
> > teach using pictures and sound.
> > Maybe make the edu framework a window to teach through. "skin" it for the
> > different grades, and make the kde-edu tools available from this framework.
> >
> > "Theory" heavy subjects, like maths could make more use of the animated
> > svg and audio via smil 2.0 with help from edu tools to show application.
> > "Experience" heavy subjects, like languages could make more use of "show
> > and test" kde-edu tools.
> >
> > Another exciting prospect is that in 12 - 36 months voice synth systems
> > will be nearly indistinguishable from the real thing, this will make
> > teaching via a CBT system, so much more manageable (no voice artist and
> > your voice over in a text file instead of 5 gigs of recordings like we
> > have now).
> 
> See KTTS [1]: The KDE Text-To-Speech System.
> 
> And festival [2], a voice synth system, has a new technology in its 1.9 
> version with a way better "sound".
> 
> BTW: I hope to see a speech recognition system (perhaps sphinx [3]) in a 
> future version of KDE (and GNOME and Co).
> 
> > Your coments please.
> >
> > Please excuse the long wind.
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Trenton
> 
> thx for your work
> Mario
> 
> [1] http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/
> [2] http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
> [3] http://cmusphinx.org
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