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Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005

Virtual Archaeo-heritage Exploratorium:

A Model Design for School Students

Indo US S&T Forum Workshopon

Digital ArchaeologyNov 11-13, 2005, Mussorie, India

Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha


It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of enquiry.

Albert Einstein


Disconnects

• Disconnection from native culture.

• Disconnect of work from local society

• Perception of History as a collection of disconnected facts and missing context

• Historical museum and sites are disconnected from school education.


Some typical responses of school students to History

• Really such a boring…

• Student’s sleeping time.

• …..


Vast Cutural Ore

• Achaeological Sites and Monuments

• Sculptures and artifacts

• Festivals and rituals

• Continuous civilisation


Objectives

• Reintegration to Cultural heritage

• Comprehending the continuous civilization

• Providing a social and historical identity


History Education Enrichment

IT Archaeo-heritage Resources Learning Sciences

Strategy


• “Technology helps overcome the two enemies of learning: isolation and abstraction.”

George Lucas, Chairman, The George Lucas Educational Foundation


• Computer as a tool to – Explore with– Design with– Learn with

• Internet as a - Content Repository and - Medium for

• Interaction,• Cooperation, and • Collaboration

• Creative Competition

Perspective


Archaeo-heritage Exploratorium

A possibility


Archaeo-Heritage Exploratorium

Sculptures and Artifacts

DLs

Built heritage DLs

Pedagogical layer

Semantic web

Content Exploration and Authoring tools

Sociable Web

Festival and Ritual DLs


Pedagogical layering

• Retouched Images

• Annotation

• Hot-spotting

• Text Books based Ontology

• Concept maps


CONCEPT MAPCONCEPT MAP




DLs

Built heritage DLs

Pedagogical layer

Semantic web


Sociable Web



Semantic Web

• Concept based retrieval(Text- Ontology)

• Content based retrieval(Audio, Image, ...)


Content based retrieval

Database Search Results ( Top 3 )

Database Search Results ( Top 3 )

Input Sample

Input Sample




DLs

Built heritage DLs

Pedagogical layer

Semantic web


Sociable Web



Content exploration tools • Content retrieval, • Visualisation, Animation, and Walkthroughs• Juxtaposition, Comparison, and translucent overlays• Progressive and contextual display• Selective extraction and Schematization• Measurement, Reconstruction, and Data integration• Statistical analysis e.g clustering, regression• Induction and Deduction• Puzzles, • Games• Concept Map Authoring ……

• ACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT – Hypothesis formulation and validation


Active learning tools: Reconstruction


Pot Without Extension

Extended Skeleton Extended Pot

Active learning tools: Reconstruction


Active learning tools: Analysis

S. Goel et al., VSMM’ 05

Computer Vision based Dance Visualisation By




DLs

Built heritage DLs

Pedagogical layer

Semantic web


Sociable Web



Sociable Web tools

• Learner initiated discussions• Teacher initiated discussions• Directed Browsing• Co-browsing• Online Creative Competitions


What we are doing ?

• School History and social studies curricula - Collating related web resources

• Creation of Ontology• Tools - Specification, Design, and development

– Semantics web– Sociable web– Content Exploration– Pedagogical layering


Pedagogical layering

• Retouched Images• Annotation• Hot-spotting• Text Books based Ontology• Concept maps

• Puzzles, • Games


Invitation

• Community of creators to co-create pedagogical layer– Archaeologists, Anthropologists, Historians– Learning Scientists and teachers– Fine Art, Design, and IT

• Enrichment of web-enabled DLs

• Support of funding agencies

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