Nexus

Thanks for Your attention

@DigiEduBerlin / daniel@udk-berlin.de 

this presentation is first content available at https://udk.ai

Post Scriptum



Solar Powidl anyone ?

teacher.solar



Some Solar Artefacts



Primer

Boombox

Terminal

Harp

Lehrerstab

From Bildung Biodigitale to Ecoartificial Education



"Ecoartificial education (EAE) integrates those forms of pedagogical and didactic practice where artificially intelligent systems are being deployed for the purpose of increase of H’s knowledge and respect of the surrounding biosphere.”


Outdoor Teaching

is more healthy (Vitamin D, lower CO2 concentration, different body posture, burn-out prevention)

by harnessing the solar energy, OOT reduces the CO2 trace of one's digital activities

outdoor activities are indispensable part of many artistic curricula

nature is beautiful and rich source of inspiration(s)

teacher.js

Outdoor Online Teaching

OOT = outdoor + digital

"Garden Area Network" paradigm ;)

You need some special hardware (e.g. e-ink displays, Raspberry Pis etc.) and some special software (teacher.js, Kastalia KMS) but it's possible and it's fun

The Project

Teacher.solar :: open source/hardware toolbox for low bandwidth CO2-neutral online outdoor teaching

Stifterverband's Senior Fellowship for Innovationen in Hochschullehre

SoSe 2020 :: Bildung Biodigitale 0 :: On organic and artificial trees

SoSe 2021 :: Gestaltung und Einsatz eines solarbetriebenen Online-Bildungsinstruments: Klang & Ton

SoSe 2022 :: Bildung Biodigitale 1 :: Plants, Herbs, Weeds & co; Making of an outdoor digital education artefact

Digital Primer / fibel.digital

The ultimate aim of the “Digital Primer” (DP) project is development, optimization and deployment of digital education instrument (Bildunginstrument) for fostering of acquisition of basic literacy in primary school pupils. DP has two sub-projects:

a “physical” Personal Primer (π2) branch focuses on design of a post-smartphone open hardware artefact based on “Raspberry Pi Zero” technology.

the “Web Primer” sub-project provides extended functionality in browser

Both sub-projects provide audiotext support, implement human-machine peer learning curricula and use Mozilla’s DeepSpeech acoustic models embelished with our own exercise-specific language models.

Palope

Palope is a Fibel developed by prof. Christa Röber (Germanistik / Pädagogik, Uni Freiburg) and her team

the essence of Fibel is the scaffolding sequence - from simplest syllables to evermore complex structures

in Palope, the trochaic structure of German language is exploited to maximum to facilitate the Einstieg in the world of written letters

good design choices (not phoneme-driven but syllable-driven) many interesting inovations (color coding of different syllable types) and cognitivelly powerful methods (e.g. "Silbentepiche")

and it is a community project ! (e.V., all OERs under Creative Commons etc.)

Time for a little demo

Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED)

the Primer should not replace the human teacher but assist her (e.g.by keeping track of what individual children know and do not know)

adapt the Primer to the child and not child to the Primer (all our speech recognition models run on our own servers / local hardware and can easily adapt to a concrete pupil or group of pupils)

as the child learns, so does the Primer (we call this "Human Machine Peer Learning")

Achtung, Gefahr: !!! by focusing too much on the technical, AI-related side of things, one may easily fall into trap of poor pedagogical practices !!!

One Goal





Mündigkeit

Web primer :: https://fibel.digital

Web Primer allows wider public to benefit from our growing collection of open educational resources (OERs) without necessity to build a physical Primer. Frontend is a Progressive Web App, backend is a quite sophisticated "knowledge graph". Artificial Intelligence, speech technologies (notably automatic speech recognition ASR) and so-called audio-text play an important role. Current modules:

👄 lesen (ASR)

👂 hören (multi-voice)

👩🏼‍💻 trainieren and 💯 testen (human-machine peer learning)

🎴 memory (single-player) spielen

Personal Primer

Personal Primer (is a physical, do-it-yourself (DIY) book-like (embooked) Bildunginstrument for fostering of reading skills in younger pupils and informatic skills in older pupils. The idea is simple:

older and/or more expert students strenghten their informatic competences by making the device and fine-tuning acoustic models

younger ones (9-12 yrs.) pupils strenghten their media competence by producing and curating (audiotext) content youngest (6-8 yrs.)

pupils use the device to strenghten their basic literacy (e.g. reading) competence