Designing With Web - Part 3: week 1
Improve escape the city experience for schools thanks to social networks
Group "116"
- "Claire TSENG": my exploration
- "Alexandre MAURENT": my exploration
- "Kevine MONGO": my exploration
- "Thomas ROBERT": my exploration
- "Cyprien NGEUMANI": my exploration
Project 1: YoungTravel
Context
when? where? who? why?
Today, most students, either in middle school or in high school, are lucky enough to take part in extracurricular activities with their schools! Even though it is a delight for them to discover new activities alongside their classmates, most of them do not decide what they do or where they travel! Our application will change that, it will allow them to collaborate with their teacher in order to choose the activities that they will be able to discover and the path they are gonna take while they are on their school trip!
This will allow them to learn how to be more self-sufficient, while having the help and support of their teacher! The goal is to make the students feel like they organized a trip on their own!
The school and the children will be able to pick from a large range of outdoor activities, sports, museums! Everything that we will talk about on our application will be shown on a map! That way if you are planning a trip in a specific area, you can easily see what the place has to offer!Our app will show activities from the European Union only, as every user will have to be a member of the EU in order to participate!
Target
for whom?
Our application is mainly designed for schools! Even if the users will be the students, the person paying for the subscription will be the school! Any school based in a country from the European Union will be able to subscribe and participate!
Service offered
what? how?
We offer a catalogue of field trip. Students have the possibility to interact with the other students thanks to an instant messaging in order to prepare their field trip in group or even to have advice from students who already did the same field trip. The app bring access to a personalized proposition of field trip with critera such as the average age of the group of student, the price, the weather, the region and the means transport.
Students have the possiblity to interact with students from other school in order to prepare a bigger field trip bringing together several schools.An algorithm is linking schools in the same area interested by the same field trip.
Of course, their is a system of notifications for the instant messaging, for advice, promotion, etc...
A health tab is available giving information about first aid advices, risk areas, vaccines if needed, and epidemics in progress in the region during this period.
Our app is closed to the use of data by other companies. It is an accessible and secure network: verification that the persons who sign up are students, a network open only for students, and easy to use. Our network is closed to advertising. Students can sign up for free.
Identity
describe the universe around your service by creating a mood board and name your service accordingly
Benchmark
List concurrents / relative projects and describe how they relate/differentiate to your project
- VTO Voyage VTO Voyage is a site that organize group travels and also field trips. But it is not specialy for stuends and their is not all the features that our apps is giving.
- Trip Advisor Trip advisor, an app on which you can find pretty much everything that you are looking for! It is a concurrent because it delivers information for the entire world, but it is not designed for children and schools specifically, so there is less interaction, it is designed to be useful and practical for on the go travelers.
- Booking Booking is a site and an apps that can be presented as a concurrent but which is not really because it is not used to organize filed trip. But you can find a large choice of travels.
- UCPA UCPA is an organisation that organizes trips for children, it is our concurrent because it is specifically designed for children
References
books/films/articles/...
- Les voyages forment la jeunesse : Quels apprentissages lors des voyages scolaires ? Although little mention is made of it in official curricula, school trips are nonetheless an important part of students' schooling. In addition to so-called formal learning, i.e. that which corresponds to the curricula, school trips are rich in informal learning and enable sudents in particular to build their relationship with others. Thanks to this article, we realise that our project should focus on shool trips because it is something really important in the development of childrens.
- Quel est l’intérêt des voyages scolaires ? This article shows the importance of field trips for the education of students. During field trip, students learn to be autonomous. With our apps, we would like students to be even more autonomous by organized their own field trip. We want to give then the opportunities to discover what they are really interested in.
Project 2: name of your second project
Context
when? where? who? why?
Application allow a kind of digital treasure hunt: basically, qr codes are previously hidden in places, and with the phone you have to find them and then scan them with the help of clues. A small group of students is with an adult who owns the phone. Pedagogical and cultural possibilities: "biology" lessons by doing this in nature, "history" lessons by doing this in monuments, famous places, literary and so on...The concept is simple : the track begins by an enigma that lead to a place where a QR code is hidden. Once scanned, a second enigma appears to lead the group to a second QR code and so on. The goal is to create enigmas based on historical or biological facts (depending on the topic). At the end of every
Target
for whom?
Teachers in primary school, to go on school outings with their students. Eventually, anyone wishing to play and learn with our application. The main target is still schools, because the app is made to be used by a teacher leading the game.
Service offered
what? how?
Constantly updating the app to ensure that more and more tracks are available on the app: this involves people who will nail the QR codes, others who create the puzzles/educational content, and finally those who code the app. The app will clearly clarify which field is addressed (history, biology...), the theme, the difficulty...
A possibility for the teacher to rate and commentate each track to help the other teachers to chose a track.
A preliminary visualization of the course, the distances and the answers to the riddles to allow the teacher to prepare beforehand for the gameIdentity
describe the universe around your service by creating a mood board and name your service accordingly
Benchmark
Competitors exist, there are already applications that organize virtual treasure hunts. However, our application is really pedagogic.we want this application to be totally reliable in its pedagogical content, the different tracks to be made in accordance with the national education program and these tracks to be checked by teachers before being made available on the site. In this way, the application differs from its competitors since it is truly and fully oriented towards schools: to my knowledge, there are no competitors in this field.
- Moreover, the courses will not be limited to big cities or famous monuments, but to forests, theatres, in short to various places.
- Digital escapade Another application that proposes treasure hunt but without the QR code or pedagogic dimension : mainly in big cities (really develloped in Paris). So, it is basically the same "kind" of games but not the same target at all, this one is used by tourists.
- Foxie Foxie is a new application to visit cities in the form of a treasure hunt on a mobile phone. Once again, the application is used by tourists, to discover cities in a different way. Nevertheless, the application delivers some pedagogical elements (on the history of the city for example).
References
- Le pouvoir des chasses au trésor dans l'apprentissage des enfants This article summarizes very well the potential of scavenger hunts to improve, facilitate and make learning more enjoyable for children (here very young, but this applies to older children).
- Rabelais, Gargantua (1534) Already 600 years ago, the humanists of the Enlightenment criticized scholastic education, based on learning through books, and advocated learning through experience and discovery. Our application, based on humanistic learning, allow children to learn differently, by going to meet nature, historical monuments...