2009/6/15 Maria Droujkova <[email protected]>: > David, > > For frameworks, you may want to look at "achievement systems" and "reputation > systems" (e.g. karma on slashdot). I just helped a colleague with his grant > proposal about adding achievement systems to a peer review-based authoring > environment, Expertiza, so we did some literature review for that. It's a > well-developed topic in gaming and in internet-based community studies. It > involves creating an "economy" of good deeds, basically. In more advanced > systems, users can define or co-define which deeds are considered "good."
Greg, is this something related to the assessment framework you referred to the other day? Regards, Tomeu > -- > Cheers, > MariaD > > Make math your own, to make your own math. > > http://www.naturalmath.com social math site > http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath future math culture email group > http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM, David Van Assche <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Having pondered this a bit more, I came up with a practical example. Lets >> say we have a student in Uruguay, lets call him Fernando, and lets say we >> have a student in the UK, lets call her Suzy. Suzy's Spanish is not great, >> as she hasn't had the chance to delve into it practically, nor is she >> getting the right idea about how everyday Spanish is used in Spanish >> countries, having relied on terrible cliched examples of her antiquated text >> books. Fernando's English is not very good, seeing as the only English he is >> subjected to are pirate movies he buys from the local market, so he's >> learned more slang than real English. His school isn't even teaching >> English, but he desperately wants to learn it. >> >> Colabot knows both of these users, as it has analysed every willing user's >> e-portfolio, and knows they would compliment each other perfectly say by >> sharing the Speak activity. Colabot could suggest times at which these 2 >> students could meet virtually and collaborate in order to improve their >> language skills. Colabot could keep track of their on going meetings, >> showing the amount of hours spent on language learning. Colabot could even >> give out an award or recognition after the students had spent X amount of >> hours learning together. >> >> The great thing about this example is that it seems to me to be pure >> construcionism with technology at its simplest and its best. The 2 students >> are teachers to each other, and colabot is there purely in the capacity a >> teacher normally should be, to guide the learning process. >> >> kind Regards, >> David Van Assche >> >> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:00 AM, David Van Assche<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Something has been in the back of my head for a while now, ever since I've >>> > seen the impressive capabilities of being able to share an activity with >>> > your neighbourhood. Being able to cooperatively use applications brings a >>> > new level of playability to it all, and it reminds me of when I first saw >>> > the ability for a computer game to be 'multi-player.'This gave it an extra >>> > dimension, and with it came the idea of awards for completing certain >>> > things, which would be displayed in your dashoard somewhere.The award >>> > system >>> > seems even more relevant for education than it did for games. We'v aleady >>> > mentioned the benefits of an award sysem so I'm not going to regugitate >>> > that, but what hasnt''t really been spoken about is, how and what kind of >>> > personal details should the journal store and share. I see this as a >>> > customisable option, something that can be as simple as only sharing first >>> > names, or sharing the name of your pet, your favorite colors and foods, >>> > the >>> > languages you speak. >>> > >>> > This detailed information about a person is extremely valuable to the >>> > underlying system, as it can potentially match people against each other. >>> > This would allow for some interesting possibilities when it comes to >>> > collaboration, such as the system suggesting users to >>> > challenge/collaborate >>> > with based on personal information. I thought about having a robot that >>> > lives on an irc channel capable of helping with the collaboration >>> > procedure, >>> > as well as listing achievements, giving data on which users want to >>> > collaborate, giving help on how collaboration works with particular >>> > activities, listing which servers have open collaboration, showing the >>> > most >>> > used/highest rated collaborating activities, etc. >>> > >>> > I havent thought about this too much in depth, but I know coding a bot is >>> > not too hard. I see it as an extension to the speak AI, and encouragement >>> > to >>> > join irc. We can even get the bot to accept uploads of raw learning >>> > materials categorised by subject, which can then be used by content >>> > creators. it itself could give out quizzes based on particular subjects, >>> > or >>> > interesting pieces of information/knowledge. It could be taught new >>> > information, by feeding it localised knowledge. It would be important to >>> > know where we set the limits to what it can do. >>> > >>> > Just some food for thought... >>> > >>> > David (nubae) Van Assche >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> > [email protected] >>> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> > >>> >>> In general, the idea of bots living in the Sugar neighborhood is a >>> theme we haven't explored very much. It would be nice to come up with >>> a simple, consistent framework for creating such a resource. Making it >>> available through IRC as well is a cool idea. >>> >>> -walter >>> >>> -- >>> Walter Bender >>> Sugar Labs >>> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
