The time is not sure before that I take care myself of educational programs on linux, enough to control the category educational of this site in order to become of account, however, taking cue from an article mailed on poshlinux, they are decided to me to riaffrontare the argument being tried to offer possible the most complete trattazione. I do not certainly hide the difficulties of an aspiration of this type, however I will try to use synthetic most possible the simple approach comunicativo and putting all the engagement and the passion to us that necessarily must possess one that ago my type of job.
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I would define a program of type educational like an application turns to help the normal process of learning, or under the aspect of the acquisition of new contents, than as support in order to remember things already learned. The educational programs can commonly be uniforms for the age of the target of customers. Such applications in particular those for the young students, often are planned with the idea of `learning through the gioco', while the oldest programs for (enough aware of the importance of the acquaintance, but still under parentale protection), are thought in order to prepare a student to a examination of maturity, a test, or other types of acquaintance test, in relatively fast and pleasant way. A consideration to part the more popular language deserves the didactic applications in the field of the instruction of the foreign languages (obviously is English, then the German), from simplest like the thematic dictionaries us, to most complex with human voice and acknowledgment systems vowel, all supply an important support for young people and less young people in the difficult task of learning of a foreign language.
We know all, the children are bored easy, therefore an educational program turned they must absolutely maintain to an equilibrium adapted between the learning and the game. If the child notices that the application is boring puts, it from part and will have lost its attention, while the programs that possess the just compromise between learning and game succeed to capture the interest of the children for long times much. However some applications demand a glut of tasks to execute during the game that the learning thus becomes secondary to be at the end neglected. For this reason a good idea could be that to create an adventure game that it offers several is made that they demand the completion, before the passage to the successive phase, or a game of race arcade, with an exchange of acquaintances between subjects in order to increase the power of the car. While for the larger boys, perhaps, some FPS, in which the access to a distance it will demand the student to supply corrected answers to questions in mathematics, physical, geography, or Biology. Perhaps also some easy RPG in which the development of a personage it will depend from the assimilated acquaintances.
The approach of the educational programs for the students of the medium and advanced schools instead is changed. The old tactics “you resolve a problem with the fractions, and will see a beautiful animation” is not more sufficient. Today, the students come to more and more often knock to the door of the “reign” of Internet, and here the king is Google and Queen Wikipedia. The majority of the necessary information to the test overcoming, if it is not assimilable with the aid of the similar books of text and, can be found on Internet. If the educational programs must compete with Internet, are necessary that they have a greater cognitive value (somewhat difficult, since on Internet it is possible to find literally of all: from the mathematical theorem to the philosophy treaty, from the descriptions of chemical experiments to solutions of physical problems). Various it is the speech in the event in which points to a greater interactivity of the application. As an example, we consider the program of Kalzium; its functionalities in comparison to the periodic table of cartaceo type are inarrivabili. Moreover, a program does not exist a static sottosezione of Wikipedia as well as works them how much in which, with little movements of the mouse, the temperature of boiling titanium can be discovered not only (that it can easily be found in every chemical table, or in Wikipedia), but also as some elements will become 1000 liquids to C, or how many elements were known in year 1885.
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