[kde-edu]: Math Software for young children

[Cary]

Greetings !

I am EXTREMELY new and learning. I believe Mario Fux originally
wrote this e-mail. I want to learn more about what he/she wrote about ;
>>
>> 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.
>
Is there a link that will dire ct me to sample this CBT method?
I want to know more about this server-client based system that
"pushes" modules requested by clients. ETC.

-Cary
978.937.5170





On Jan 25, 2005, at 2:29 PM, 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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