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Subject: Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: Language learning on the XO.
From: David Farning <dfarning () sugarlabs ! org>
Date: 2008-10-30 15:31:59
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FWIW. I have had a number of high school teacher and university \
instructors ask about using the xo as a language learning appliance. The two \
reoccurring themes have been:XO as a portable language lab.Ability to develop a \
language learning activity which could tailor itself to the needs of an individual \
learner. thanksdavid On 10/28/2008, 20:04, Gary C Martin \
(gary@garycmartin.com) wrote:On 28 Oct 2008, at 23:46, Chris Ball wrote: \
sugarGreaterThan Hi, sugarGreaterThan sugarGreaterThan I'm learning Spanish at \
the moment, and I wish the XO made it easier sugarGreaterThan for me. I don't \
have any knowledge of what the right way to do either sugarGreaterThan conventional \
or constructionist language learning on computers is; if sugarGreaterThan anyone has \
much experience with either, I'd love to hear about it. sugarGreaterThan \
sugarGreaterThan I have some obvious candidates for software that could be produced \
in sugarGreaterThan mind: sugarGreaterThan sugarGreaterThan * A method -- similar \
to Scott's recent GtkLabel overlay for sugarGreaterThan allowing \
sugarGreaterThan strings inside Sugar and activities to be translated -- that \
sugarGreaterThan does a sugarGreaterThan dictionary lookup of a word on the \
screen and overlays the sugarGreaterThan translation of that word into a local \
language. This should be sugarGreaterThan activity-agnostic, if possible. For \
bonus points, translate sugarGreaterThan phrases instead of just words. \
sugarGreaterThan sugarGreaterThan * Perhaps some kind of Pronunciation Activity \
that gives you words sugarGreaterThan in the target language, speaks them to you, \
explains what they sugarGreaterThan mean in your local language, and asks you to \
speak them back, sugarGreaterThan perhaps grading your response? (All but the \
last part is already sugarGreaterThan possible to do manually in the Words \
activity, but not in a sugarGreaterThan structured way.) sugarGreaterThan \
sugarGreaterThan * Is there any free content that matches iconic images to words, \
sugarGreaterThan so that language vocabulary could be taught even without textual \
sugarGreaterThan translation to a local language? sugarGreaterThan \
sugarGreaterThan Feel free to come up with questions/ideas around language learning \
on sugarGreaterThan the XO in general in this thread, and they'll make it into \
the sugarGreaterThan conference talk. Still being worked on by Urko, but functioned \
quite well last time I tested on an XO. I set it up with a bunch of pathophysiology \
term flash card type questions/answers: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Assimilate \
sugarGreaterThan Thanks, sugarGreaterThan sugarGreaterThan - Chris. sugarGreaterThan \
-- sugarGreaterThan Chris Ball sugarGreaterThan \
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<body><p> FWIW. I have had a number of high school teacher and university \
instructors ask about using the xo as a language learning appliance. The two \
reoccurring themes have been:</p><p>XO as a portable language lab.</p><p>Ability to \
develop a language learning activity which could tailor itself to the needs of an \
individual learner.</p><p> </p><p>thanks</p><p>david </p><div><hr /></div><br \
/>On 10/28/2008, 20:04, Gary C Martin (gary@garycmartin.com) wrote:<div \
style="border-left: 1px solid #0000cc; padding: 5px; margin-left: 10px">On 28 Oct \
2008, at 23:46, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > I'm learning Spanish at the moment, \
and I wish the XO made it easier > for me. I don't have any knowledge of what \
the right way to do either > conventional or constructionist language learning on \
computers is; if > anyone has much experience with either, I'd love to hear about \
it. > > I have some obvious candidates for software that could be produced in > mind: \
> > * A method -- similar to Scott's recent GtkLabel overlay for > allowing > \
> > strings inside Sugar and activities to be translated -- that > does a > \
> > dictionary lookup of a word on the screen and overlays the > translation of \
> > that word into a local language. This should be > activity-agnostic, if \
> > possible. For bonus points, translate > phrases instead of just words. > > \
> > * Perhaps some kind of Pronunciation Activity that gives you words > in the \
> > target language, speaks them to you, explains what they > mean in
your local language, and asks you to speak them back, > perhaps grading your \
response? (All but the last part is already > possible to do manually in the \
Words activity, but not in a > structured way.) > > * Is there any free content \
that matches iconic images to words, > so that language vocabulary could be \
taught even without textual > translation to a local language? > > Feel free to \
come up with questions/ideas around language learning on > the XO in general in this \
thread, and they'll make it into the > conference talk. Still being worked on by \
Urko, but functioned quite well last time I tested on an XO. I set it up with a \
bunch of pathophysiology term flash card type questions/answers: \
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Assimilate > Thanks, > >
- Chris. > -- > Chris Ball > _______________________________________________ > \
Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar \
_______________________________________________ Devel mailing list \
Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel</div></body></html>
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