Abstract
According to the NMC Horizon Report (Johnson et al. in Horizon Report Europe: 2014 Schools Edition, Publications Office of the European Union, The New Media Consortium, Luxembourg, Austin, 2014 [1]), data-driven learning in combination with emerging academic areas such as learning analytics has the potential to tailor students’ education to their needs (Johnson et al. 2014 [1]). Focusing on this aim, this article presents a web-based (training) platform for German-speaking users aged 8–12.Our objective is to support primary-school pupils—especially those who struggle with the acquisition of the German orthography—with an innovative tool to improve their writing and spelling competencies. On this platform, which is free of charge, they can write and publish texts supported by a special feature, called the intelligent dictionary. It gives automatic feedback for correcting mistakes that occurred in the course of fulfilling a meaningful writing task. Consequently, pupils can focus on writing texts and are able to correct texts on their own before publishing them. Additionally, they gain deeper insights in German orthography. Exercises will be recommended for further training based on the spelling mistakes that occurred. This article covers the background to German orthography and its teaching and learning as well as details concerning the requirements for the platform and the user interface design. Further, combined with learning analytics we expect to gain deeper insight into the process of spelling acquisition which will support optimizing our exercises and providing better materials in the long run.
Highlights
This article presents the workflow and the interface design of a prototype in the field of German orthography with an approach on learning analytics (LA)
On this platform, which is free of charge, they can write and publish texts supported by a special feature, called the intelligent dictionary
The unique feature of this platform is that during the text creation process, students benefit from automatic feedback provided by the intelligent dictionary
Summary
This article presents the workflow and the interface design of a prototype in the field of German orthography with an approach on learning analytics (LA). German orthography is known to be relatively difficult to acquire and master, especially for primary-school pupils—as the Austrian national survey in 2015 showed [2]. The platform, IDeRBlog, which is described, aims to address this issue by combining technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and LA [3, 4]. The platform, which is currently in its testing stage with our partners, serves as a motivating innovation for children to acquire German orthography more . Teachers and researchers are benefiting from the application, since it supports the decision-making process and provides them with possible educational interventions [4, 5] supported by the offered training database.
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