The GROT project: global repository of thoughts

MATÍAS LÓPEZ Y ROSENFELD; ANDREA PAULA GOLDIN; MARIANO SIGMAN; DIEGO FERNÁNDEZ SLEZAK

Huerta Grande, Córdoba

Congreso; XXVI Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencia; 2011

One-to-one educational models awaken new educational scenarios, with recent initiatives delivering low-cost laptops to every student. At the present more than 400000 children and adolescents share the same digital platform. This provides a great amount of new possibilities, pushing a profound reformulation of teaching and learning, generating virtually infinite data from children. From the perspective of information technology, the challenge is how to interpret this vast corpus of cognitive development of kids and convert conceptual questions from the educational practice into quantifiable, analytic queries. Our goal is to develop a computational framework for information storage, access and analysis, which may enlighten ancestral cognitive questions. The project has three concrete objectives of progressive difficulty: 1) to develop a tool that includes educational games and applications and registers playing behavior; 2) datamining and analysis of registered data which may reveal the underlying mechanisms of thinking (as a first approach, we will attack memory, planning, numerosity, geometry and inhibitory control aspects); and 3) to generate interventions in the educational process of the childs towards a more equitative education, providing equal opportunities to every child.