Hi,
I am taking a simplistic approach to this problem. KA-Lite has a simple
coach
report which basically shows a table with a row for each registered student
and a column for each activity. The cell is blank for no attempts, a
light green
for attempts which did not reach 'proficiency', and a dark green to show
proficiency in that task.
I think this is adequate for teachers, particularly if they can click on
a cell to
get more detail (e.g number of items completed, number of questions
answered correctly, and so forth).
Many of the sites I am supporting do not follow the one laptop per child
model. In one case, the teachers pass out laptops without regard to who
used it previously. In other cases, a set of laptops are used in more
than one class.
This means recording data against the laptop serial number is insufficient.
The implementation strategy is to have the site provide a list of
students (currently first and last name with the username as a
concatenation of the
two). The student logs in (By using the Journal activity, login is
assured at boot
time. After that, students must login as laptops are passed from class
to class).
A modification to activity.py adds id, start, stop, and outcome to the
metadata.
The id is the db id of the student (not the username). The outcome is a
string - empty by default. A procedure 'write_outcome' added to
activity.py, analogous to read_file and write_file enables a Sugar
activity to add specific outcome
information (either a string or a json with one of the keys: 'comment':'').
The ds_backup.py is modified to save objects in the datastore to the school
server (item by item, not rsync).
A data collection script on the school server can go through the saved
Journals
adding this information to a database so that reports (such as the coach
report) can be created on demand.
Similar to KA Lite, the goal is to make information available to
teachers on the
progress of their students so that teachers can provide extra help and
encouragement as appropriate. Currently, KA Lite does not provide feedback
directly to the students but the main Khan Academy site has many
examples of
this (badges, points, etc.).
Tony
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We had our January meeting at OLPCSF (and our 6th birthday). We talked
about contributions to this project. Introducing Nina Stawski to the
thread. She works with HTML and Javascript and is familiar with
visualization. She suggested d3js.org as one of the options.
Has anyone created the wiki page as yet?
cheers,
Sameer
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Martin Dluhos <mar...@gnu.org> wrote:
On 7.1.2014 01:49, Sameer Verma wrote:
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Martin Dluhos <mar...@gnu.org> wrote:
For visualization, I have explored using LibreOffice and SOFA, but neither of
those were flexible to allow for customization of the output beyond some a few
rudimentary options, so I started looking at various Javascript libraries, which
are much more powerful. Currently, I am experimenting with Google Charts, which
I found the easiest to get started with. If I run into limitations with Google
Charts in the future, others on my list are InfoVIS Toolkit
(http://philogb.github.io/jit) and HighCharts (http://highcharts.com). Then,
there is also D3.js, but that's a bigger animal.
Keep in mind that if you want to visualize at the school's local
XS[CE] you may have to rely on a local js method instead of an online
library.
Yes, that's a very good point. Originally, I was only thinking about collecting
and visualizing the information centrally, but there is no reason why it
couldn't be viewed by teachers and school administrators on the schoolserver
itself. Thanks for the warning.
In fact, my guess would be that what the teachers and principal want
to see at the school will be different from what OLE Nepal and the
government would want to see, with interesting overlaps.
cheers,
Sameer
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Martin Dluhos <mar...@gnu.org> wrote:
On 7.1.2014 01:49, Sameer Verma wrote:
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Martin Dluhos <mar...@gnu.org> wrote:
For visualization, I have explored using LibreOffice and SOFA, but neither of
those were flexible to allow for customization of the output beyond some a few
rudimentary options, so I started looking at various Javascript libraries, which
are much more powerful. Currently, I am experimenting with Google Charts, which
I found the easiest to get started with. If I run into limitations with Google
Charts in the future, others on my list are InfoVIS Toolkit
(http://philogb.github.io/jit) and HighCharts (http://highcharts.com). Then,
there is also D3.js, but that's a bigger animal.
Keep in mind that if you want to visualize at the school's local
XS[CE] you may have to rely on a local js method instead of an online
library.
Yes, that's a very good point. Originally, I was only thinking about collecting
and visualizing the information centrally, but there is no reason why it
couldn't be viewed by teachers and school administrators on the schoolserver
itself. Thanks for the warning.
In fact, my guess would be that what the teachers and principal want
to see at the school will be different from what OLE Nepal and the
government would want to see, with interesting overlaps.
You left out one important constituent: the learner. Ultimately we are
responsible for making learning visible to the learner. Claudia and I
touched on this topic in the attached paper.
Just to place all my cards on the table, as much as I hate to suggest
we head down this route, I think we really need to instrument
activities themselves (and build analyses of activity output) if we
want to provide meaningful statistics about learning. We've done some
of this with Turtle Blocks, even capturing the mistakes the learner
makes along the way. We are lacking in decent visualizations of these
data, however.
Meanwhile, I remain convinced that the portfolio is our best tool.
regards.
-walter
cheers,
Sameer
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