Re: A new project and a general question
Hi,
Dont know if you speak Dutch or French, so answering in English, although
also belgian ... :)
If you speak French, feel free to answer in this language.
I'm a sysadmin at Tiscali Belgium , and i had my studies as a teacher
(6-12-year children - ecole primaire) - i wrote an end-cycle work (travail de
fin d'etudes) about the use of the computer at primary school.
I can give you a few references in french about your question, but i dont
have them here - send an email if interested. But here is something looking
as an answer :
i think that you loose a part of your children's energy by letting them alone
in front of a computer. It's sure that having 1 computer for 4-5 children
means loosing time.
I think the best combination is 2 children/box : if they are not alone in
front of a problem, they can resolve it by communicating, analysing together,
speaking and negotiating about the use of the available tools, and so on : so
you meet a great amount of objectives you can find in the P.I. (programme
integre) - for mathematics (problem solving : what can i do with the tools i
have, what am i doing wrong, which is the simplest way to achieve my
objective, ...) and mother language (communication : explicit an idea clearly
and listen to the other - also if you let two children in front of a complex
formulation, they can work together at the understanding).
If you look at the P.I. in this way, you shall find a lot of objectives you
can work by letting two children together in front of a Unix box ...
I'm really interested in joining your project : could you contact me so we
can deply something together ? I dont develop, but maybe you need hints for
methodology, or a hand for English->French translations ?
Have you seen that a lot of Children software have just been integrated into
Debian Testing ?
Regards,
Dexter
On Thursday 03 May 2001 13:25, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First, a few words about me: Debian developer since 98, developer of
> Gaby (apt-get'able) and contributor to a few projects.
>
> And now, what brings me here: I'm involved in the setup of a computer
> classroom in Brussels, Belgium for a primary school (children from 3
> to 12). What we have now is a network of about 20 diskless 486 that
> boots in X from a nicely powered server (running Debian of course).
> We setupped recently a project on sourceforge (named 'plume') to help
> other people deploy such a network.
>
> That was the easy part.
>
> I now have to write an objective paper about our setup, how it works
> but also why we did it that way. One of my arguments is that this
> provided one computer per child instead of one per 4 or 5 children.
> I know I read somewhere a study saying basically that for an efficient
> educational use you needed at least one computer per 2 children.
> Does anybody here know about the references about such a study ?
>
> Regards,
> Frederic
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Knowledge-sharing and open-source content : another way to gain eternity.
Francis 'Dexter' Gois - fg@tiscali.be
System Administrator - Tiscali Belgium NV/SA
phone: +3224000839 - fax : +3224000899
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