I have a question for creative thinkers regarding language learning software that we are making for the xo and other devices.
here is the situation: -we have a group of 30-60 kids and 2-3 machines (no funding yet for one laptop per child) and no supervisors when the laptops are used. - we want to measure progress of the individual children as good as possible to give them an auto-advancing curriculum what we tried (during a user-pilot in tribal villages in india): - give each child a neck cord with their own unique picture of an animal and make them login with that picture on the screen result: - kids exchanged/traded the animals amongst each other after a while (one boy having 10 cords) - kids taking turns and not logging in (forgetting/not caring) under their own id - not enough animals available for villages with more than 60 kids, we made some kids share the login. solutions we are thinking of: - make a photo with the webcam and make that their id - fingerprint scanner mouse (expensive) - make it profitable in the software to log in under your own id (earning points/rewards etc) - no login at all in the first stage and wait until a later stage until they can type their names to log in - tattoo a barcode on their arm and scan it in upon use (ok getting desperate now :P ) does anyone have any better ideas for us how to make them log in in a non-supervised environment? How to avoid that they do not log in under their own id when they are taking turns br, Jeroen _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
