[Sugar-devel] Activity

[James Cameron]

Welcome Kushagra.

I like 95% of the idea.  Well done.

However, the optical character recognition machine learning component
will have problems;

* there may not be enough processor power to run the model quick
  enough, or battery may decline quickly when using activity,

* the model would need local training, and as there are no other
  handwriting activities the training must come from this activity
  alone,

* there would have to be a "they are cheating" button to mark a
  drawing as writing, otherwise the training could not happen,

* some drawings may false positive,

* it is not an essential part of the activity; children are very good
  at detecting attempts to cheat,

* prevents the activity from being used for competition writing of
  letters and words instead,

It may be enough to have a "they are cheating" button with the
activity taking votes into account.  What do you think?

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 01:53:44AM +0530, kushagra nigam wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I have an idea/activity which will invoke learning and fun simultaneously. 
> The game will be called the "Guess the Word".
> 
> How the game works : Each of the student will get their turn to draw something
> on their screen. The screen will contain a word at the top, which you have to
> draw and others to guess. Rest of them will look at the ongoing drawing on
> their respective screen to guess what is being drawn. Say a student is making
> the drawing of an orange, ones who guess it right are scored according to the
> time taken (Bonuses who gets the fastest :P). Moreover, the one who is drawing
> will also be scored on the basis of total right guesses made by the others. So
> after say 5 rounds of the game the cumulative sum of your drawing and guessing
> the right answer will tell the winner. 
> 
> Motto of the game : Group playing, interaction with other students, artistic
> skills, vocabulary build up etc.
> 
> Technology required for the fluency of the game : It may happen that students,
> instead of making a drawing write the word on the screen. This will be taken
> care by optical character recognition(ML). Student will be disqualified or his
> score will be deducted for doing this. Designing and other stuffs as required. 
> 
> I work with python and even worked with ML and other frameworks. However I m
> still learning how to use Python with sugar activities. I already went through
> your site to look for the material so that I can get a kickstart before the
> start of the project.
> 
> I m just loving it how you guys took an advantage of technology for educating
> children. Really very excited to showcase my skills and be a part of this
> venture.
> 
> This is just a short proposal of something which I want to pursue as my summer
> project for the GSOC 2019. Any advancements/queries are most welcome. 
> 
> Sincerely
> Kushagra Nigam
> [1]kushagra1998 at gmail.com 
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:kushagra1998 at gmail.com

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