Interesting. I am quite convinced on the value of a kid's interaction with his own work, it can develop into quite a self-growth tool. Some of this can be teacher guided, but due to time/training/ability constraints it might reach wider if it has some AI elements into it, if the activity has its own interacting protocols, genre Elisa but probably :-) not that deep.
Also, for some older kids some sort of opportunity to comment on each other's work might be a powerful idea. Considering that we intend a lot of the work to be of a collaborative nature, there definitely is a need to also consider kids reflecting on the interaction process itself. Walter Bender wrote: > There is a group that is designing a Portfolio activity to complement > the Journal. The basic idea is to engage the student in a process of > selection (from the Journal), reflection about how/why the work is > significant, and the creation of a narrative to tell the story. Not a > report card, but a powerful assessment tool, nonetheless. More details > as we progress with our sketches. > > regards. > > --walter > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I'm not sure that such an idea actually requires a special activity, >> or a "report card" template with preset fields. It seems to me that >> the item of importance is the ability for the teacher to give each kid >> an immutable object which they may then view on their XO, and take >> home to show their parents. This object might be a .pdf, or it might >> be an image, or it might be something else, but the teacher could >> create such an object in Write, or in a spreadsheet activity, or in >> whatever suits their needs best. >> >> It seems to me that the more interesting part of this problem is the >> distribution method. Unlike a homework assignment where the teacher >> could share an activity, or (in the future) send an object to everyone >> in the class group, there is need to distribute files individually to >> the kids by some unique identifier. Perhaps this is the place where >> an "Evaluate" activity does have it's place. If done well, a fresh >> instance of the activity could provide a way for a teacher to fill out >> evaluations (or import in their desired format!) and identify which >> kid each belongs to. Then, upon sharing that single evaluation >> activity with the class, each kid would receive *only* their own >> evaluation from the shared instance. That instance would then, every >> time they open it, simply be a viewer for that particular evaluation. >> This is a good example where the master-slave (usually discouraged in >> Sugar) would actually work. >> >> - Eben >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Following with the "Printing support" thread, I found out that the >>> "only" item that _needs_ printing in the conventional school setup is >>> the report cards. >>> >>> Since I militantly believe that XO-supported education we should not >>> depend on printing at all if it were possible, I would want to submit a >>> proposal to have grading information be accessible through the XO. >>> >>> While that is a simple part of student management software that >>> doubtlessly will be part of the server, and thus accessible as a web >>> page, still there would be a need for that information to be copied >>> _into_ the XO for those kids who would have no access to the server >>> from >>> their homes. >>> >>> Thus, in its proposed incarnation, the "Work Report" activity would >>> exist in the XO, be fed its information updates from the school server. >>> The child and family would have that info as an available reminder of >>> the teacher's feedback and child-specific suggestions. >>> >>> From a security standpoint the server notices via mac address the >>> ID of >>> the child's computer to upload info to. >>> >>> There would be an associated activity, "Teacher Reports", available for >>> the teachers' XOs, where the teacher can comment on student work. >>> Simple fields, "what is good about this work", "what needs >>> improvement", >>> "other suggestions". >>> >>> While I personally would avoid there be a "grade" field, I am aware I >>> will be overruled on this, so I concede. >>> >>> In most cases anyways the report card follows a definite format and is >>> already pre-printed to be filled out by hand. I am sure that >>> improvements on this are possible, but since this is very much a >>> nationally-defined format, it might not make sense to worry at this >>> stage. Last time I was there in 2000, Uruguay High Schools printed >>> reports on dot-matrix plain paper already. >>> >>> Yama >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sugar mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
