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...will be a program to help children to develop their
fine motor skills. It is part of the German
PingoS
project, a project for free support of Linux at schools.
The idea of PinGismo is as follows:
In German elementary schools there are some kind of worksheets
for children to help them in learning to write letters or
numbers. On the worksheets for mathematics, for instance,
there are some kind of frames of the numbers, and the children
have to draw some lines inside these frames, so learning the
motions needed to write a number. But we think that there is a
disadvantage with these sheets: They are not really
interactive. If a children misunderstands the task, and for
instance just paints the frame or moves the pen in the wrong
direction, there will be no improvement in the child's
psychomotor skills.
In our opinion here the possibilities of a computer program
could be very helpful. With such a program (some kind of
"intelligent tutor ") one could watch the motions
of a electronic pen (or a mouse in the first version) and give
hints/help if the motions are not as expected, the pointer
leaves the frame and so on.
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