[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] TuxEng Design Methodology

[Alangi Derick]

        Thanks very much Melissa Newman for all you have said, I am really
happy for this and i really appreciate it. Like i said in the methodology,
it was just a draft and i am still shaping my idea and because of that, i
made the post so that people like you can read it and make comments or
reply with brighter ideas. I really appreciate. This shows some level of
understanding that you have in the domain.
      I just wish to ask, are you a mentor or a student because i was
really requesting for a mentor on this area so we can discuss and make this
product during the summer. If you are a mentor, i wish we could work
together and make Tux English a better app. Don't worry about the
implementation, i will handle that but all i want is a guide from someone
in Tux4Kids.
     I am available in the IRC channel so you might want to talk to me more
and vise versa. Please reply me on what you have about this game and the
development process. Thanks once more.


Regards
Alangi Derick Ndimnain

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Melissa Newman <melissa at newmanfamily.org>
wrote:

> As a person who is a software engineer, and has studied Education (from a
> homeschooling parent perspective), you are biting way more off than you can
> chew.  Your program is unrealistic.
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> Level 1: Learning the letters and being able to say a word that begins
> with that letter.  Kids do this between 2 ½ to 4 ½.  (this level can be a
> game in itself, and there are plenty)
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> Level 2: Reading CVC words (constant vowel constant sounds).  This can
> take kids between 4 ½ to 6 ½ to master this.  Realistically it can take
> kids a good year to get through this level.  It is a very hard concept for
> kids to grasp.
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> Level 3.  Two beginning constants sounds.  Move through quickly.
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> Level 4: Ending two constant sounds.  Move through quickly.
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> Level 5: Two vowel sounds.  Kids move through slowly through this phase.
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> The above 5 levels are regular Hooked on Phonics, which has 5 levels.
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> All of those 5 different levels are just 1 syllable words, and you can
> honestly expect kids to take 2 years to get through it.
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> After that you are dealing with suffixes, prefixes, and multi syllable
> words.  That is probably another 1 – 3 years.
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> But that does not even talk about sentences.
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> 1.       Verb only:  Go!
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> 2.       Noun and verb:  Alice sat.
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> 3.       Adjectives:  The little Alice sat.
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> Look at the book “Simply Grammar” by Charlotte Mason.  And within that
> book, there are 4 different parts.
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> Now you are talking about paragraphs.
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> Do you get idea?
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> 1.       Program 1: Learn the letters
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> 2.       Program 2: Equivalent to hooked on phonics
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> 3.       Program 3: Equivalent to hooked on phonics Master reader
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> 4.       Program 4: Equivalent to “Simply Grammar”
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> And that does not include paragraphs and essays.  Way too much in one
> product.  As the saying goes, “Jack of all trade, master of none.”
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> As a programmer and homeschooling parent, I would recommend creating a
> “TuxType To the Next Level” type of program.  Focus on copywork.  A lot of
> homeschooling parents believe that a student can learn to write well by
> copying text from great writers.  Start off with idioms and phrases
> (sentences).  Then move to short stories like Aesop’s Fables.  Then move
> onto longer stories.  There are already people who have done the grunt work.
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> 1.       Charlotte Mason, the person who invented the idea of copywork.
> Her recommended curriculum (actual source books)
> http://amblesideonline.org/curriculum.shtml
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> 2.       E.D. Hersch – What your X Grader Needs to Know
> http://coreknowledge.org
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> There are others, but in those two, most of the selections are in the
> public domain.  http://archive.org and http://www.gutenberg.org/ have a
> lot of public domain items in txt files.
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> There is also http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
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> If you do it as a “plugin” through Mahara, you can save yourself a lot of
> effort, and you will prepare students to move from your application to
> Mahara.
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> Melissa Newman
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