Add Cooperative Learning to Pairs

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Mon May 13 14:39:28 UTC 2013 

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Marco Calignano <marco.calignano at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
>
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> El Dimarts, 7 de maig de 2013, a les 09:22:38, Marco Calignano va
>> escriure:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > to answer to Albert:
>> >
>> > I plan to add an option (an Icon on the games bar) so the player can
>> choose
>> > the collaborative mode like was another kind of game.
>>
>> Makes sense :-)
>>
>> >
>> > I can also give an example to how I imagine the third point:
>> > There are three kids around the computer only one can play. When he
>> > finishes his game we need to automatically load a new game (similar to
>> the
>> > first) for the next kid. Now after everyone played once we load a new
>> game
>> > (a bit more difficult) that the first kid can play again and so. All
>> this
>> > list of game and difficulties could be store in a xml file similar to
>> the
>> > current theme file.
>>
>> Makes sense now :-)
>>
>> >
>> > to answer Aleix:
>> >
>> > The aim of collaborative learning is to have children work together. A
>> > player for himself is not Collaborative learning. (Of course we can
>> think
>> > of another option for increasing difficulties even in single player
>> mode)
>> > The number three came out in a discussion with the educator of
>> pre-school
>> > teacher: the said the best number is three one at computer and one per
>> > side, the forth would be behind and sometime because of physical
>> > characteristics could be cut off of the game (too short to see the
>> monitor)
>> > but also psychological he fells less important because he is behind
>> >
>> > I would like to discuss the UI further as well (that's why this email)
>>
>> What do you need for the UI, some kind of scoreboard so that each
>> children has
>> a different score?
>>
> 1) The score is not for each player but only for the group so we need to
> change the left tab where the players are.
> 2) We need also a way to tell the kids that they need to switch places. I
> thought like a popup windows where the avatar and the name appears.
> 3) Therefore the kids have to have different avatar.
> 4) I think also we need some kind of confirmation mechanism to
> select collaborative games.  Like a double click or code typing of some
> kind: this would avoid kids playing at home switching into collaborative
> mode and have any kind of "problems"
> 5) we should also give the possibility to same the session game with
> players scores etc. This make sense since in this kind of mode there will
> be more than one game.
>
> Cheers
> Marco
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Albert
>>
>> >
>> > For the difficulty we could implement it both way: Increase the number
>> of
>> > cards, and/or decrease the number of step needed to solve the game
>> >
>> >
>> > I hope I was clearer this time if not just tell me
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Marco
>> >
>> > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>> > > Hi Marco! :)
>> > > It's good to see you back!
>> > >
>> > > First of all, I think it's a great iniciative, I'd like to see more of
>> > > that in the future.
>> > >
>> > > Point by point:
>> > > 1. Why do we limit the number of players? how do you mean to do that?
>> > > Won't a kid be able to play by himself while bored at home?
>> > > 2. It's a matter about UI, it won't hurt to think it through a bit
>> further
>> > >
>> > > :).
>> > >
>> > > 3. Shouldn't the difficulty be the number of "pairs" we are
>> displaying?
>> > >
>> > > Aleix
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Marco Calignano <
>> > >
>> > > marco.calignano at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> Hello,
>> > >>
>> > >> I would like to start adding Cooperative Learning features to Pairs,
>> and
>> > >> would like to throw the discussion in the mailing list.
>> > >> For Cooperative Learning we need three main changes in Pairs, like
>> > >> discussed in Randa last year (
>> > >> http://community.kde.org/KDEEdu/Sprint2012/TeachersNotes).
>> > >>
>> > >> 1. Limit the number of player to three, no more, no less.
>> > >> 2. Only one player can access the computer so we need a way to tell
>> > >> players when they can do that
>> > >> 3. Link together different games so that the players have an
>> increase in
>> > >> tasks difficulty
>> > >>
>> > >> To specify the difficulty of a game we can give a maximum number of
>> move
>> > >> to solve the game.
>> > >>
>> > >> The first two points can be build in the game code, but the last
>> point, I
>> > >> believe, belongs to the theme description because it has to be more
>> > >> flexible.
>> > >>
>> > >> What do you think?
>> > >>
>> > >> --
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>> > >> And stand behind, the choices that you make
>> > >>
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>> > >>
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Hi Marco!
Maybe you can provide some mockups to get it discussed?

Technically, I think that the best for this would be to have a different
binary called pairs-collaborative that the teachers can call and know what
the kids will be playing beforehand.

About the switch, I think that we can just add a QML overlay with the
name/picture that the kind can click/press and disappears.

Aleix
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