On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> wrote: > These are some of my thoughts in response to both Walter's New Year's > message and Bryan's threads on supporting easier activity creation.
> I like concrete user stories that help situate thinking. So let's make up > a story of the young teacher and the similarly aged aunt/uncle of one of the > students who has recently graduated from a local technical computer skills > program and has the desire to volunteer to spend hours with the young > teacher helping to create a Sugarized activity that the students will use. > You can set this story in Nepal or Birmingham but take a minute to make a > mental picture of these people working together; Situated Cognition theory > says that you will learn better and remember more if you have rich > imagery. :) > > So the teacher wants to help the students with a problem that they will be > tested on using standardized testing. Perhaps it's using a grammatical > structure that is present in the official formal language but not present or > different in the local vernacular, e.g. "I ain't got no pencil" to "I don't > have any pencils". The teacher has a bunch of zeroxed sheets of exercises > that have been used since the mimeograph ages and the school has always > gotten very low standardized test scores in this area. I want to tackle such problems in greater generality. Does anybody know of usable computational models of transformational grammars that we can use to generate language exercises? I see that Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is a large field, one that I have not yet had time to learn to navigate. -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
