RE: [ifets] ITS bridging the gap between entertainment and education.

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Ashok Patel (apatel.aqua@btinternet.com)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 02:52:12 +0100 

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From: "Ashok Patel" <apatel.aqua@btinternet.com>
Subject: RE: [ifets] ITS bridging the gap between entertainment and education.
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 02:52:12 +0100

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Thanks Dave Graves and Dr. Quinn for thought provoking discussion
and references in connection with my earlier mail.

Katy Luchini wrote:
> I believe that ITS have great potential for bridging this
> gap between entertainment and education

Can we say that play is more successful because there is active
involvment and it begins with some instruction, allows lot of construction
and occassional discovery (when another player uses some lateral
thinking !)

Perhaps these are the proportions we need to follow in designing
more successful ITS. In that case, I can't help wondering whether
we have been climbing up the wrong tree so far! If the emphasis
is on construction, do we need to bother so much about
sophisticated student models and diagnostics ?

Refering to the game of Chess, a person would need to play
some to get the essential skills of the game but would then
benefit more by studying past masters' games i.e. using the
mechanism of self-explantion rather than keep on playing while
someone either continuously guides (dynamic feedback) or
each game is analysed on completion (static feedback).

Wouldn't it be better to think about a Teacher model and
how the ITS can adjust to teachers with different approaches
(teaching styles - at least a natural reflection of their own
learning styles).

Ashok Patel
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