Drawing Together in the Classroom: an Application of the "cartable électronique" Project.
Christine Ferraris, Christian Martel, Philippe Brunier · EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology · 2001
Most of the time, when speaking of new technologies to be integrated in classrooms, people think of computers : just buy them, the most sophisticated possible, and use them ! There is no time taken to think about what kind of hardware or soft ware would be useful or what could be done with this hardware or software; and, if there is, teachers are most of the time not involved in the discussion. The work we present here puts the teachers and even the children at the center of the process. We present a drawing software which was developed in partnership with teachers and pupils. We have deliberately chosen to place this software in a collaborative context. We present in what follows the way children can draw together, the way the drawing activity can be regulated by the teacher, and the participation model, the theoretical model on which the regulation functionality is grounded. We then show the challenges of such a collaborative situation. Before that, we present the overall framework within which this application has been developed: the cartable electronique project.