Peer Evaluation- Evaluated by Racha

Your presentation was very appealing in both writing and presentation. The text used appropriate and accurate terminology and was appropriate to age group.  The idea was a brilliant and unique idea and am looking forward to seeing the finished product. One thing you could improve on is to make different titles for different article, so instead of putting  Inquiring and Analysis for many documents, it would be better if you added different titles to avoid confusion, another improvement is to either highlighting everything in one color rather than highlighting paragraphs in different paragraphs, other than that the project was AMAZING. Good luck!

Promotional video for Tech Fair project- Week 3 (Video by Hiya)

Self Evaluation

Self-evaluation:

I think I have completed all of the required blog posts for the inquiry and analysis stage of this design cycle to the best of my ability. I think I have chosen an idea that can be made with minimal difficulties but along with this helps the society. This idea as mentioned in my older posts is a mix of mine and my partners research and that is why we have taken turns completing the tasks. As we both did individual research posts separately I created a post about our final idea, as well as this I made the video with all of the required information. My partner made the power point consisting of the four slides. I think I have contributed well in this pair work though I wish my partner did the same. From my side this stage has been productive as everything was done to a good standard and uploaded on my blog on time.

Power point Week 2 (Post by Thrisha)

Inquiry and Analysis- lesson 2 working in pairs (Post by Hiya)

Inquiry and Analysis- lesson 2 working in pairs and deciding final project:

Unit: Tech Fair Project Global context: Scientific and technical innovation
Statement of Inquiry: Developments in technology could be seen as blessing or a curse depending on the impact it has on an individual or society.
Inquiry Question: How can we use Technology to help develop our ideas to create a masterpiece for the ‘Tech Fair’?
ATL: Thinking skills and research skills

What was the Product or Software developed and how does it work?

Brail keyboard and Learn to type game for blind children:

For this project i have decided to work with Thrisha in order to create a keyboard with brail writing on it, and along with that is a game that will teach them how to spell everyday words used in class and around the society by people. this will make the keyboard easy to use as well as make the disabled feel more comfortable being themselves.
For this we will be using a game app called scratch along with an old keyboard base, to do this we will take the keyboard apart by removing keys and the sheets and sticking rime stones in the shape of brail letters.
The game is going to be a maze that will tell the person through head phones a word to spell, then using the keyboard they will type the word that they are asked to and they will move a certain amount of steps and will eventually get to the end.

Pictures as inspiration for the project:

Who Developed it?

It was not previously developed- as far as we know- and it was a mixture of what me and Thrisha originally thought. As I decided to make something of dyslexics and Thrisha decided to make a game, we mixed my idea of helping disabled, we changed it into blind people as none of us are dyslexic so we couldn't make sure it works, so we changed the idea, and we will use her scratch idea to make it a fun experience.

How does the product help the society?

It helps the society as it changes the perspective of bind patients that they can fully use technology for their benefit. it will make the keyboard easy to use and once they are confident with the letters on the keyboard then they can start using that and normal keyboards in their everyday life including work or schools.

How we will make it?

Make a keyboard using an old one and take all of the keys off, then stick the rime stones on and connect it to a working monitor with the game on it. to make the game create background and characters and insert commands in it to use a voice for each word.

Critical Judgement:

Reflection on research:

This research project was very successful as me and my partner did our individual research to the best of our ability and when we came together we combined our ideas, Therefore, the rest of the research went smoothly and it was not too difficult to come up with an idea that is not only entertaining, but also helps the society greatly. We used the previous references as well as ideas that we used in the individual research which caused less waste of time on wrong sources, and a fast paced completion of criteria A.


References:

Frankenberger, C. (2016). Technology. Available:http://dyslexia.yale.edu/Technology.html. Last accessed 5th Jan 2016.     Kings, M. (2014). How to make a hand crank flashlight. Available:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTmLKf6CL4A. Last accessed 5th Jan 2016.

Tech fair Inquiring and Analyzing

Tech fair project lesson 1- individual research

Task:

Idea 1:

My first idea is to create a hand crank flashlight which will require minimal materials as well as be very useful and comparatively less harmful to the environment. The idea will consist of a flashlight that will require a small motor to operate a LED light but unlike most lights that we use today it will not use any external sources of power (the power sockets that we use). This product will be a basic electronic device that will be easy to mimic by people in our society and it will be beneficial to them as well. some of the advantages of this product include; It doesn't use power sockets which means that less fossil fuels are formed therefore there will be less harm to the environment if it is used by enough people. it will not be as expansive because it consitist of most recylceable materials, it will also work in case of emergencies like power cuts or when batteries are scarce.

 

 

Idea 2:

My second idea is to do research on how technology can influence lives of deslyxc people in our society in a positive way. There are many components in the tools that we use today that could be useful to dyslexics, in my project I want to research them into more depth and create an informative and creative way to present this idea to our school community. the few tools I studied about are:

• Tablets, iPads, phones, laptops and kindles:

all of these are very common devices with a high standard of technology within them, all of these consist of features that could be useful to dyslexics, for example the speech to text function on all of the keyboards, or the double tap to read text. this could be helpful as children and adults will not have to go through typing or trying to read off a screen that will make them loose interest in the job they have to do, in general this will make what they think is a hard thing simpler for them.

 

• Apps

there are many apps that are readily available, these apps are of great use for dyslexics, they have many different textures and colors in their fonts which will help the user read easily for they way they learn, for readers that are not dyslexic they would find the app very confusing where as dyslexics would find it easy.

 

• Live scribe Smart pen

dyslexics face difficulty in school while taking notes in classes, there is a smart pen that has been created that once turned on will record the voices during classes, along with it take pictures of your notes, therefore people that face difficulty in writing at a speed when extensive notes are required the notes from the pen will be easy to access and a much better and practical way for dyslexics to learn

 

Reflection on Criteria A:

The initial part of this research was the most challenging part, this was because we were exploring all the possible options that we could create. while doing this in my search engine I started very vague, I started by searching easy tech fair ideas. But most of the results that showed up were more related to science fairs, out of the few websites that I found about technology I looked at the ideas and eventually started to type those in, I found out that a  lot of these ideas used a lot of products from outside and in the end only required the parts to be joined, I personally felt that this would not be a creative and self-initiated idea. when I found the torch light I searched for tutorials on it and found all of the materials and methods to do it.

 

The next idea was thought about by me and I started by wanting to make a movie that would be clearer for dyslexics, but when I searched it there were no results that matched my search, then later I wen into finding ways technology can influence the lives of these people. when I searched a more specific search I found the information in detail that I was looking for.

References:

 

Frankenberger, C. (2016). Technology. Available: http://dyslexia.yale.edu/Technology.html. Last accessed 5th Jan 2016.     Kings, M. (2014). How to make a hand crank flashlight. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTmLKf6CL4A. Last accessed 5th Jan 2016.