Teacher Jam Chicago/Results
Discussion of existing activities
Produce Puzzle
overview
- could be more interactive
- more facility for helping student solve subproblems
problems
- no user feedback besides music
- should always have both visual and audio cues
- usability
- very clear to user that you can enter in text/numbers; use arrows on keyboard
things to look for
- progress tracking
- more incremental learning
- feeling of forward movement
takeaway points
- fruits and veggies = cool
- translatable, graphical
- subtly teach health, nutrition
- (integration = win!)
Things we'd like to do
- small encapsulated activities
- achievable tangible learning goal
- visual translation of concepts
Math
- sets
- dividing objects
- virtual manipulatives
- graphing
- plot "favorite color", for example
- histograms
- introduce polling concepts
- something going out schoolwide, XO can compile results. (better to analyze data all at once, rather than add votes one by one -- bias from previous voters)
- estimation
Language Arts
- feedback for a spelling program
- database of words
- animation, feedback, pronunciation
- visualize horse vs hoarse, for example
- make use of most common "x" words in the language
Idea 1
- interface (teacher/design and a run interface)
- run: list of correct spelling, mixed up spelling
- unscramble
- sentence constructor
- subject-verb object
- database knows what is categorized as what, figure out construction rules
magnetic poetry
- collaborative
- computer = magnetic haiku (force syllable count)
- iambic pentameter
- different poetical forms (A Kick In The Head - book)
- take snapshots
- User:Rmyers/Magnetic_Poetry - Bob Myers take
Tell Me A Story
- create e-books (mix of Speak and Write)
- Space to type and draw
- multi-page
- end result -- stored book, view page to page, then read out loud
- exchange own written books
- can be structured, maybe, as a webpage or wiki
- (work an interface over a web browser engine)
- record self telling story, too
- free write - doesn't really need computer to dictate rules
- learn to identify sentence structure by ear
Looking at Story Builder
- story builder -- can't seem to build more than one page
- have to chose from preselected images
Other comments
- replicate style teachers are accustomed to
- XOs, computer can change/break down existing education models
- use to make school more interesting for students
- SUPPLE software - accessibility
- understand why kids are having trouble
