What Did You Do At School Today? Using Tablet Technology to Link Parents to their Children and Teachers

The Homework project is developing an exemplar system for the delivery of adaptive, interactive numeracy and literacy education for children (5 to 7 year olds) at home and in the classroom. We illustrate how a user centred approach has enabled us to specify and go some way towards developing technology to meet the clear need for a better way of helping parents to engage with their children’s homework and understand what they have done at school.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: AIED
• Authors: Joshua Underwood, Rosemary Luckin, Lucinda Kerawalla, Benedict du Boulay, Joe Holmberg, Hilary Tunley, Jeanette O'Connor
• Keywords: AIED 2005, Artificial Intelligence, Homework Project, Interactive Numeracy, User Centred Approach