Галагазета | How Software That Learns As It Teaches Is Upgrading Brazilian education
How Software That Learns As It Teaches Is Upgrading Brazilian education Belle, 27 января 2016 г., 5:14
At a dozen or so hexagonal tables, pupils work on laptops or in exercise books. At one of the clusters, a teacher sits to help a pupil, while another talks to a group of students at the far end of the room – a large salon in which almost half of the pupils at the school are seated. The rest of the school’s 213 students, aged between 11 and 14, are busy elsewhere in the building, which includes six small, more traditional classrooms.
Through the windows that run the length of the classroom, dark blue sea is visible in the distance, past green hills, while above the school Rocinha favela surges up the mountain in a clutter of concrete and peach-coloured brick.This is André Urani Municipal School, a technology-focused experimental academy at the foot of Rocinha, which with 70,000 inhabitants is Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela. With almost all of its students drawn from the community, André Urani is a flagship adopter of an innovative educational software developed by a São Paulo startup, Geekie. Launched in 2011, Geekie Labs delivers the entire high-school syllabus in hundreds of digital lessons incorporating text, images, videos and exercises, and also evaluates the students’ performance at every step, feeding real-time data to teachers and the school. A separate, widely accessible app, Geekie Games, has the same components, bar the institutional integration.
Geekie’s content and study plans are aimed at equipping students for Brazil’s national ENEM exams, held annually for final-year high-school students and doubling as an entrance exam for many universities, as well as providing proof of achievement for school-leavers.
In the classroom at André Urani, Yago dos Santos Lahas, 14, is taking a history test on Geekie using an HP laptop, one of 220 in the school, which has a five-year sponsorship from companies including Natura cosmetics and Fundação Telefónica. A question – part of Geekie’s bespoke software for the pre-high-school institution – reads: “In world commerce there are rich countries with more purchasing power, and others with less. The search for better commercial relations between those countries, increasing their profits, is called: (a) competition; (b) integration; (c) association; or (d) financing.”.
Source: www.theguardian.com/technology/2016
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At a dozen or so hexagonal tables, pupils work on laptops or in exercise books. At one of the clusters, a teacher sits to help a pupil, while another talks to a group of students at the far end of the room – a large salon in which almost half of the pupils at the school are seated. The rest of the school’s 213 students, aged between 11 and 14, are busy elsewhere in the building, which includes six small, more traditional classrooms. Through the windows that run the length of the classroom, dark blue sea is visible in the distance, past green hills, while above the school Rocinha favela surges up the mountain in a clutter of concrete and peach-coloured brick.This is André Urani Municipal School, a technology-focused experimental academy at the foot of Rocinha, which with 70,000 inhabitants is Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela. With almost all of its students drawn from the community, André Urani is a flagship adopter of an innovative educational software developed by a São Paulo startup, Geekie. Launched in 2011, Geekie Labs delivers the entire high-school syllabus in hundreds of digital lessons incorporating text, images, videos and exercises, and also evaluates the students’ performance at every step, feeding real-time data to teachers and the school. A separate, widely accessible app, Geekie Games, has the same components, bar the institutional integration. Geekie’s content and study plans are aimed at equipping students for Brazil’s national ENEM exams, held annually for final-year high-school students and doubling as an entrance exam for many universities, as well as providing proof of achievement for school-leavers. In the classroom at André Urani, Yago dos Santos Lahas, 14, is taking a history test on Geekie using an HP laptop, one of 220 in the school, which has a five-year sponsorship from companies including Natura cosmetics and Fundação Telefónica. A question – part of Geekie’s bespoke software for the pre-high-school institution – reads: “In world commerce there are rich countries with more purchasing power, and others with less. The search for better commercial relations between those countries, increasing their profits, is called: (a) competition; (b) integration; (c) association; or (d) financing.”. Source: www.theguardian.com/technology/2016
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