Can someone find something on the web that compares what we call "elementary, middle, and high school" . . . ideally we could come up with three categories that fit the world.
Btw, my experiences in Haiti and Nicaragua suggest that ages are better.
We could go with "piaget time", not "typically done in school" time. Variations are incredible ... for example, Haiti vs US homeschoolers.
If there was an international standard grouping we could point to, that would be best.
On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Marta Voelcker wrote:
Hi,
I think that there are too many categories.
If we think on content we could group by school years:
Elementary school Middle school High school
Or, if grouping by age I wouldn't use more than three categories, in this case I would say:
7 and younger 8 to 12 13 and older - when "technically" most kids are able to go through more complex abstractions
marta
-----Mensagem original----- De: etoys-dev-bounces@squeakland.org [mailto:etoys-dev-bounces@squeakland.org] Em nome de Timothy Falconer Enviada em: segunda-feira, 31 de agosto de 2009 12:41 Para: kharness@illinois.edu Cc: etoys dev Assunto: Re: [etoys-dev] popups in project-info
Kathleen,
The problem will be hundreds of people choosing age/grade tags. Some will say "4th grade", others will say "3rd to 4th", others will say "fourth grade", others will say "9 to 10", etc. Using fixed categories solves this problem.
If I saw a drop-down labeled "Target Age" that had:
- five or younger
- six to eight
- nine to eleven
- twelve to fifteen
- sixteen and older
I personally wouldn't think the "sixteen and older" would indicate language/nudity/violence content.
Such content wouldn't pass the moderators anyway, and we can make it clear on the website that we don't allow such content.
What does the larger group think? Would you see "sixteen and older" in the drop-down as saying "put your adults-only stuff here"?
Tim
On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:30 AM, kharness@illinois.edu wrote:
Hi, This phrase gets very close to the "18 must be accompanied by parents" movie rating system, will it imply, mistakenly, that the content is adult/X rated.
We chose to tag some of the projects in EtoysIllinos with grade level's because they are aligned with grade level content standards. The rest of the projects stand as they are without grade or age tags because curiosity has no age limit and because we assume that people who click on a project they don't understand will either stay with it until they do understand or click out right away and go to some other project. Kathleen
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:13:07 -0400 From: Timothy Falconer timothy@squeakland.org Subject: Re: [etoys-dev] popups in project-info To: Andreas Raab andreas.raab@gmx.de Cc: kharness@illinois.edu, etoys dev etoys-dev@squeakland.org
I'm good with 16 and older ... but we'll ask the education team first.
On Aug 8, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
Perhaps just call the age bracket "16 and older"?
Cheers,
- Andreas
kharness@illinois.edu wrote:
Bert, Will the above 18 label carry connotations of the movie ratings: adult content? These ratings may not be in use world wide, I don't know. I think age is adding an unnecessary and complicating bit of information. Kathleen ---- Original message ----
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 21:16:21 +0200 From: Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de Subject: Re: [etoys- dev] popups in project-info To: etoys dev <etoys- dev@squeakland.org> Cc: "kharness@illinois.edu> <kharness@illinois.edu"
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On 08.08.2009, at 20:16, Scott Wallace wrote:
> But neither your age nor mine is within the age-ranges covered > by the age pop-ups :-)
IMHO "Age" should be "Target Age", and it should cover everybody. This means we need two more choices: "under 6" and "above 18". And there needs to be a way to select multiple age groups, or at least add an "everyone" choice.
- Bert -
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