COMPETITION DETAILS
Theme-: Improve the self-learning skills of the Sri Lankan students
It seems the Sri Lankan students are strongly depending only on the content taught in a class, which numbs their learning abilities, thus, restricts the knowledge they gain. To become a master in any domain, it is essential to learn and improve the self-learning skills as shown in the figure below, which provides many advantages, and strongly practising.
We think, now it is time to let the Sri Lankan students aware of the importance of the self-learning skills and introduce them some materials to improve their self-learning skills as well as assist their journey in self-learning.
Focused areas-:
- Self-learning skills introduction and improving – Introduce the concept of self-learning and its advantages, teach what the self-learning skills are and guide to improve them.
- Any subject matter under O/L school curriculum – Using self-learning to learn and improve the knowledge in subject matters
- Brain stimulating exercises – Any types of activities, which help to stimulate the brain, in order to assist in improving the self-learning skills
Task to do-:
Think of how ICT can be used as a tool in the above-focused areas, for both teaching and learning, then come up with a creative solution.
Your solution can be presented by any mean as bellow, on a selected topic relating to the focused areas:
- Presentation of the findings of a survey
- Poster of a conceptual proposal for a solution
- A website with some content
- A web application containing some activities
- Mobile application
- Any other ICT solution…
Eligibility
Internal students who are studying in government or private schools from grade 6 to 10 are eligible to apply under this category.
Technologies
Contestants are free to use any technology as they wish. But they are strongly advised not to use pirated software.
Features
- Better learning environment: Your system should provide an effective, informal learning environment, and help learners to practice real life situations and challenges in a safe environment.
- Instant feedback: It should provide instant feedback so that the learners know what they know or what they should know.
- Interactivity: Traditional learning methods frequently promote the passive intake of information. Thus, system should provide users an interactive and innovative learning experience.
- Increased understanding and retention: The engagement and interactivity aspects of gamification should contribute to enhanced intake and retention of information
Rules and Regulations
- Each team should consist of maximum 5 members.
- All members in the team must be from the same school.
- There can be multiple groups from the same school,but the same student cannot represent more than one team.
- Applications should not be built on social networks ( e.g. Facebook games )
- Applications should not be a result of any tutorial
- The students cannot come up with the solution, which is an integration of the frame works, since we are mainly focused on the code written by the students.
Selection Process
The selection process of the school category projects would be based on two stages:
- Preliminary Rounds
- Grand Finale
Evaluation: Preliminary Rounds
All projects submitted will be evaluated based on the evaluation criteria that would be published in the CODEFEST website. The best 5 projects will be selected based on an oral presentation and demonstration and will progress to the final round. The evaluation process of this round would commence after the closing date of the submission of the projects
Evaluation: Grand Finale
Out of the best 5 projects, the best three projects will be selected based on an oral presentation and demonstration.In the final round, the best three projects will be awarded first, second and third prizes respectively.In addition to the cash prizes,the People’s Award will be too awarded.
Useful information-:
Self-learning
ICT tools for self-learning
Brain games
Web development
Sample solutions-:
