Education for Kids

Tue Aug 24 16:54:26 BST 2021

Hi Emmanuel, Everyone,

On discussing this with the team, we felt this topic merits its own video, not just a news item, (probably via Zoom or similar - unfortunately we are still under too many restrictions to risk actual filming, I think). We hope you’d still like to contribute, of course.

Essentially we are looking to follow the trail from creation of the software (with reference to Qt, we hope, and KDE) to how it helps teachers, where it’s used, how it's received, just as you suggest.

This means starting with a conversation with Timothëe, who doesn’t even know about this yet :-). 

Perhaps you (Emmanuel and Aiśwarya) can give us some idea of your availability (CEST time) in the coming couple of weeks so we can propose an initial online meeting to talk about it - assuming you’re still interested.

Meanwhile I shall talk to Timothée and see if he’s happy to join us..

All the best,

Frances

> On 24 Aug 2021, at 12:29, Emmanuel Charruau <echarruau at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am also happy to participate. My knowledge of GCompris in class is
> only restricted to my own usage but I could for example explain how
> GCompris helps on several key moments of teaching:
> - notion presentation
> - explicit research
> - research with two pupils
> - research alone
> - training
> and how it eases to organise the work in groups of needs instead of
> the usual unique group that we find so often in classes.
> Regards,
> Emmanuel
> 
> 
> 
> Le mar. 24 août 2021 à 12:22, Aiśwarya KK <aiswaryakk29 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> Hello Frances,
>> 
>> I am happy to participate. Just a correction, I am not a teacher by profession but I have a good network of teachers from south India.
>> 
>> Thank you so much!
>> Aish
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>> Le 24/08/2021 à 10:54, Frances Tait a écrit :
>> 
>> Hi Paul,
>> 
>> Thanks for the prompt reply.
>> 
>> On 23 Aug 2021, at 21:27, Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Monday, 23 August 2021 16:33:46 CEST Frances Tait wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> 
>> Hello Frances,
>> 
>> How are you doing?
>> 
>> 
>> Good, thanks. Hope you are as well.
>> 
>> 
>> We’re thinking of doing a feature on Education for Kids in our October
>> edition of KDAB News
>> <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CJYn40gN6iAaspdiKGS0Bs2wDOIVj8f>
>> Might KDE have something to contribute to that? We’d be looking, probably,
>> to Zoom interview somebody who could talk about what’s on offer via KDE,
>> how it’s being received, who’s interested, something like that.
>> 
>> We came across Kturtle and KAlgebra, but perhaps there’s also something else
>> you might want to suggest. Wed be happy to have suggestions on an angle
>> that allows you to tell viewers about your stuff.
>> 
>> 
>> What about GCompris?
>> 
>> https://www.gcompris.net/index-en.html
>> 
>> 
>> This is great - thank you. Just what we were looking for. Albert also alerted me to this, and to Timothée, who programs it.
>> 
>> 
>> That is arguably our most popular educational software, used literally in
>> thousands of schools worldwide to educate hundreds of thousands of kids.
>> 
>> I am putting Aiśwarya and Emmanuel, both teachers, both experts in GCompris,
>> on CC. They would probably be the best people to ask about the software and
>> how and where it is used.
>> 
>> 
>> Very good to meet you, Aiśwarya and Emmanuel. Would you be willing to be interviewed for our KDAB News?
>> 
>> I appreciate that’s a bit vague! We’re figuring out how to present something on kids education and likely yours won’t be the only one we’ll talk about, so it’s a bit unclear yet how we’ll do it/how much time we’ll have.
>> 
>> Let me discuss this with the News team and we'll come back with some ideas. Perhaps next step is a meeting to talk about it.
>> 
>> Many thanks again,
>> 
>> Frances
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Paul
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