User talk:Iva kirilova

User: Ivanka Kirilova Topic: Children interests Statement: The children around the world share common interests in education. If we find them, we can organise the education according to students needs, interests and aspirations. Learning will become more attractive and fascinating activity, no matter where you study or what is the subject. Experience: I have my own research on this topic.

Welcome
Hi Ivanka - welcome to Wikiversity - and, I have to say, they're fascinating questions you raise. Making learning attractive, appropriate, inspiring, and even fun for all types of learners, from children to adults, is what I hope we will try to provide here and also to shed some light on how it can be provided for. I'm doing my PhD on education and what Wikiversity's role is in the provision of education - I'd like to know about your previous research and experience. Are you aware that one big idea for Wikiversity is to host and facilitate research - both materials on how to do it and also to develop research communities here? If you're interested you could take a look at Research. Also Learning and School:Education will have some starting points on what we're trying to do here. Please feel free to add your own visions, comments criticisms etc. And please feel free to ask me anything about the project. I'm adding a welcome box below that has some links to pages that might be of interest. Looking forward to working with you and hearing more about your work! Cormaggio 13:48, 10 November 2006 (UTC) PS: have you seen this (rather confusing) page: Ways of making education more interesting for children yet? Cormaggio 17:34, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi!
YvonneGeberl 13:24, 12 November 2006 (UTC)Hi Iva! As I wrote in the forum I´m interestet in this subject. You write on your Wiki-page that you have already some experiances on this topic. What have you done already? I will begin to search for some literature we can use on this topic, so that we can start our project soon. I hope we will be successful!! We`ll have fun doing this together! Bye

My wiki-page
Here is my Wiki-page. Perhaps we can create a new Wiki-page where we can discuss on this subject or we decide if we discuss on your or on my page...

http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Benutzer:YvonneGeberl

YvonneGeberl 13:34, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Iva!

It is o.k. for me to discuss on your wikipage. (If thats o.k. for you,too). So we don´t have to create a new page. We also can communikate via e-mail (Iwrote you one a few minutes ago..).

Hi!

Perhaps you send me the questionnaire you made your research with. So I can make the same in german and the spanish students can translate it and then we all can compre the rusults afterwards...

Discussion
Hi Yvonne! I`ve just sent you e-mail. Do you mind if we use my question paper, to translate the questions and after that to campare the results? I think that your thesis are good. We can say that children in different countries have the same interests in education and if we find them we will be able to organise education according to this interests. The result will be more atractive and interesting education. If you have other questions you can write me and I`ll try to help you. I hope that the project will succeed.

Ivanka

Hi Iva!

I already translatet the questions and I think soon I will be able to give them to the kids. I think I will do the survey anonym or do you think it´s important to know the names of the kids? We have to put our thesis on the forum, i will do that today... I hope work goes on! Bye

Survey
Hallo Yvonne, I am glad that you work hard on our project and I am sure that soon we wil have good results. It is not necessary to know the names, but it is good to know the gender, because there are significant differences in interests between boys and girls. Have a nice day! Ivanka

Hi Iva!

On how many children did you do your survey? I think it should be not too many children because I think it will be very difficult to get results because the questions are really wide ranged. So every child coul write something else... Which one of the question papers is more important? Because I will do just one and then perhaps the other one, too. Perhaps you can send me your results or how you get them? So far!!!

survey
Hi Yvonne, The questions are really wide but don`t worry. We can concentrate and analyse the most important results, not all of them. In my research the most important are questions № 4,5,7,8,11,12 (Survey №1) and 5, 15 (Survey №2). If these questions are significant in your research too, we can analyse only this results. Survey №1 - Quetions №4 and 5 - you can define groups according to answers. For example: How difficult do you find school work? a) very difficult - 15 children (10%) b) Quite difficult - 10 children (6%) and etc.

You can do the same ptocedure with questions №7 and 12 (survey №1). About question №8 (survey1) - It is good to read the childrens answers and to find which activities they write very often - for example: computer activities - 12 children (8%); games - 15 children (10%); study - 12 children (8%); experiments, trips or other activities, conecting with nature - 15 children (10%). About question )11 - You can define three groups. For example: Yes - 15 children (10%); Sometimes - 7 children (4%); No - 1 children (0,5%). Survey №2: Question №5 - you should define groups according to school subjects. For example: Mathematic - 12 children (8%), Sport - 10 children (6%) and etc. Question №15 - you can do the same. For example: The child write that he/she knows a lot about dogs, then you define it in group Nature. After that you can summarise: About nature - 15 children (10%); about arts, about mathematics, about language and etc.

If you have questions you can write me and I`ll try to help you. I am glad that we are working together. I`ll try to send you my results soon. Have a nice day!

Ivanka

Hi Iva!

I hope your vacation was fine and you had a good time!

I have some questions: 1. On how many children did you do your research? 2. Can you perhaps send me the results of your research in bulgaria? (you have ny e-mail) 3. Did you differentiate between boys and girls?

So far!! Have a nice day!

Hi Iva.

Now I have the results of the survey. But I only did it with around 50 pupils. I also reserved some webspace for our homepage. We have a meeting in our university in march where we will make the homepage. We can try to do it on our own if you want to do it before march or we wit until the meeting. Perhaps we can also make it like that: You create your diagramms an so on with the results of your survey and a little text on the survey ( I think ít´s better if you write it becaus you designed the questions) and then you sent it to me and I put it all on the homepage we make with our tutor in march...