JP2007072426A - Learning system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a learning system with which the synchronization of the mention of learning contents and data plasma speech, videos, etc., is possible and easily duplicatable teaching materials can be formed. <P>SOLUTION: The learning system performing learning by reading out the identifiers attached to the teaching materials and thereby outputting at least either of the speech data and the video data includes at least a learning management data base in which the data on the students' results, the degrees of progression of the learning, etc., are memorized, an identifier data base in which the data of the teaching materials and the data on the identifiers made correspondent to the contents mentioned on the teaching materials are memorized, a printing means which creates the teaching materials by printing the data of the identifier data base on paper, a control means which transmits the data of the appropriate teaching materials and the data of the identifiers to the printing means, a reading means can read the identifiers, and an output means which outputs the data of the identifiers received from the reading means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a learning system, and more particularly, to a learning system in which an identifier capable of extracting data such as audio and video is attached to a paper teaching material, and the teaching material according to the student's learning progress is appropriately output and provided. .

  The need to learn English and other second languages is only increasing. In particular, in language learning, learning from early childhood is said to be a shortcut for early learning, and learning materials and learning environments for infants and elementary and junior high school students are required.

  In recent years, a so-called open classroom, a learning method that enables individual learning according to the level of each student, has attracted attention. According to this method, since the student can receive education according to his / her level, the learning can proceed very efficiently.

On the other hand, in the conventional general learning, in many classrooms where there are many students, videos and CDs are continuously played to learn the hearing.
In such a learning style, only the audio flowing from the video and CD is unilaterally flowed, and the learning attitude is naturally passive for the student, and it is difficult to maintain an active attitude toward learning.
In addition, text and voice are not synchronized, such as when you want to listen to a specific phrase repeatedly and cannot be played back as you wish.

Patent Document 1 discloses a learning system in which an IC tag is provided on a card, and the IC tag is read by a reader unit so that English words corresponding to pictures drawn on the card are output from a DVD player or a CD player. Is disclosed.
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However, the learning system described in Patent Document 1 has the following problems.
<1> Since the learning material including the IC tag cannot be copied by a copy machine or the like, it is difficult to handle and difficult to learn.

<2> When learning materials with IC tags are purchased, inventory management is required.

<3> The cost of the IC tag has not yet reached the point where it can be used easily, and the cost increases when purchasing a set of learning materials.

<4> Creation of learning materials requires two steps, a printing process and a tag attachment process, which is inefficient.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a learning system that can synchronize text, audio data, and video data, and can easily create a copyable teaching material.

  Accordingly, a first invention of the present application made to achieve the above object is a learning system in which at least one of audio data and video data is output by performing learning by reading an identifier attached to a teaching material. A learning management database that stores data such as grades and learning progress, an identifier database that stores data on teaching materials and identifier data associated with the contents described in the teaching materials, and data in the identifier database Printing means for creating teaching materials by printing on paper, control means for transmitting appropriate teaching material data and identifier data to the printing means based on the contents stored in the learning management database, and reading that can read the identifier And at least output means for outputting identifier data received from the reading means. Wherein, there is provided a learning system.

  According to a second invention of the present application, in the learning system according to the first invention of the present application, the main terminal is configured to include at least a learning management database, an identifier database, and a control unit, a reading unit, and an output unit A learning system is provided, wherein at least one main terminal and printing means are provided, and each sub terminal is provided to each student. is there.

  The third invention of the present application is the learning system according to the first or second invention of the present application, wherein the output means has a database storing at least one of audio data and video data, and is embedded in the identifier. The learning system is characterized in that data is retrieved and reproduced by referring to the database based on the address data.

  According to a fourth invention of the present application, in the learning system according to the first or second invention of the present application, the output means performs speech synthesis and reproduction of text data embedded in the identifier, A system is provided.

  The fifth invention of the present application provides the learning system according to the first or second invention of the present application, wherein the output means directly reproduces the data embedded in the identifier. Is.

  The learning system of the present invention may be used as a language learning system used for language learning such as English.

  For example, in a language learning system that performs language learning by reading out an identifier attached to a language teaching material, a learning management database that stores data such as student grades and learning progress, An identifier database storing data and identifier data associated with the contents described in the language teaching material; printing means for creating language teaching materials by printing the identifier database data on paper; and storing in the learning management database Based on the contents, control means for transmitting appropriate language teaching material data and identifier data to the printing means, reading means capable of reading the identifier, and voice output for outputting the identifier data received from the reading means as voice And a language learning system, characterized in that the language learning system is provided. .

  In the language learning system, the main terminal is configured to include at least a learning management database, an identifier database, and control means, and the sub-terminal is configured to include at least reading means and voice output means, It is possible to provide a language learning system characterized in that at least one main terminal and one printing unit are provided, and one sub-terminal is provided to each student.

  Further, in the language learning system, the voice output means has a voice database storing the voice data, refers to the voice database based on the address data embedded in the identifier, extracts the voice data, and reproduces it. A language learning system can be provided.

  Further, in the language learning system, it is possible to provide a language learning system characterized in that the voice output means reproduces the text data embedded in the identifier by voice synthesis.

  In the language learning system, the speech output means can directly reproduce the speech data embedded in the identifier, and can provide a language learning system.

The present invention can obtain at least one of the following effects by means for solving the above-described problems.
<1> Since appropriate teaching materials can be output from the control means via the printing means according to the learning progress of each student, inventory management becomes unnecessary.
<2> Since the contents of the teaching materials and the identifiers corresponding to the contents are printed on paper, they can be easily duplicated by a copy machine or the like and handled as learning materials.
<3> The contents of the learning material and the identifier can be simultaneously given by the printing means, which is highly efficient.
<4> By embedding text data directly in the identifier or by directly embedding audio data or video data, the database in the output means can be omitted, and the system can be simplified and the cost can be reduced.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  First, an embodiment in which the learning system of the present invention is used for a language learning system such as English will be described.

<1> Overall Configuration FIG. 1 shows a configuration diagram of an embodiment of a learning system of the present invention.
The learning system of the present invention stores a learning management database 100 in which data such as student grades and learning progress are stored, and data of the teaching material and data of an identifier 710 associated with the contents described in the learning material. The identifier database 200, the printing means 300 for creating the teaching material 700 by printing the data of the identifier database on paper, and the appropriate teaching material data and identifier data are printed based on the contents stored in the learning management database. It comprises at least a control means 400 that transmits to the means 300, a reading means 500 that can read the identifier, and an output means 600 that outputs the data of the identifier received from the reading means 500. An example of using the above system will be described below.

<2> Learning management database 100
The learning management database 100 stores data such as individual student grades and learning progress, and is updated according to the learning progress.
The learning material to be given to the student at the time of learning is appropriately determined by referring to the learning management database 100 by the control means 400 described later.

<3> Identifier database 200
The identifier database 200 stores learning material data and identifier data associated with the contents described in the learning material, and the control means 400 refers to the learning management database 100 and the learning material data to be provided to the students. Is extracted from the identifier database 200 and transmitted to the printing means 300.

<4> Printing means 300, control means 400
The control unit 400 is a unit that performs arithmetic processing represented by a CPU or the like. As described above, the control unit 400 refers to the learning management database 100 and the identifier database 200, transmits the learning material data and the identifier 710 data corresponding to each student to the printing unit 300, and appropriately prints on paper. A teaching material 700 is created.

<5> Reading means 500
The reading unit 500 uses a known reader capable of reading the identifier 710 attached to the teaching material 700.
In the case of a learning system for young children such as infants and elementary school students, it is desirable to use a code reader that is a lightweight, small pen type that can also be used as a writing instrument.

<5> Output means 600
The output unit 600 includes a database in which audio data corresponding to the identifier 710 is stored, and data corresponding to the data of the identifier 710 received from the reading unit 500 can be extracted from the database.
The extracted voice is output to a speaker, headphones, etc. according to the learning environment.

<6> Teaching material 700
FIG. 2 shows an example of teaching materials. In column a of FIG. 2, the letters “bike” and a picture of a bicycle are attached, and an identifier 710 is attached to the right corner of the column. For example, the pronunciation data of “bike” is embedded in this identifier.

  As the type of the identifier 710, various codes such as a barcode and a two-dimensional code can be used. Since the amount of data held by each code is different, a code corresponding to the amount of data embedded in the code is appropriately selected and used.

There are various data formats that can be embedded in the identifier 710. For example, the address data of each database may be stored, or the text data (character data) may be directly embedded, and the output means may be provided with a speech synthesis circuit that synthesizes text data into speech data. Audio generated from software may be output.
Alternatively, audio format data may be directly embedded in the identifier, and the output unit may be provided with a conventionally known audio reproduction circuit to output audio.

<7> Example of use of system Next, an example when the learning system according to the present invention is applied in a so-called open classroom will be described.

  The classroom is provided with a main terminal A including at least a learning management database 100, an identifier database 200, and control means. The main terminal A is constructed by a PC, for example.

  The printing unit 300 is connected to the main terminal A, and the teaching material 710 can be created by printing data held in the identifier database 200 on paper according to a print command from the control unit 400. The printing unit 300 uses a known printer.

The student learns using the sub-terminal B configured to include at least the reading unit 500 and the output unit 600.
The sub-terminal B can be configured by connecting a code reader to a device such as a portable PC, a PDA, or a portable music player.

The student learns using the teaching material 700 printed from the printing unit 300 and the sub-terminal B.
A signal obtained by reading the identifier 710 attached to the teaching material 700 by the reading unit 500 is sent to the output unit 600. The output unit 600 performs hearing learning by acquiring audio data corresponding to the signal from the database and playing audio from the headphones.

According to the present invention, an individual learning environment such as an open classroom or self-study can be controlled by each student himself / herself, and a learning environment suitable for each student can be provided. Can do.
Further, since the identifier 710 is directly attached to the paper teaching material 700, copying and reprinting can be easily performed, and the student can easily write and discard the teaching material, so that the efficiency of learning is greatly improved.

<8> Other Examples of Configuration of the System In the present example, the functions of each means are assigned to the main terminal A and the sub terminal B, but the learning system according to the present invention is The configuration is not limited.
For example, each student may be provided with a terminal including all the functions of the present system, or a wireless terminal may be used by connecting the interfaces of each means wirelessly.

  Next, an example in which the learning system of the present invention is used in a subject such as mathematics or science will be shown.

At this time, the data output by the data output means 600 includes at least one of audio data and video data, and a known device corresponding to each data is used.
For example, when the data to be extracted is audio data, an audio output device such as a headphone or a speaker is used. When the data is video data, a video display device such as a liquid crystal display or an organic EL is used.

  By extracting videos from teaching material auxiliary data embedded in the teaching material 700 and displaying the trajectory of a graph in mathematics or displaying the state of a science experiment, it becomes possible to efficiently understand the learning content from a visual viewpoint. .

The schematic block diagram of the learning system of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the teaching materials output with the learning system of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

100 ... learning management database 200 ... identifier database 300 ... printing means 400 ... control means 500 ... reading means 600 ... output means

Claims (5)

In a learning system for learning by outputting at least one of audio data and video data by reading an identifier attached to a learning material,
A learning management database that stores data such as student grades and learning progress,
An identifier database in which data of an educational material and identifier data associated with the content described in the educational material are stored;
Printing means for creating the teaching material by printing the data of the identifier database on paper;
Control means for transmitting appropriate teaching material data and identifier data to the printing means based on the contents stored in the learning management database;
A reading means capable of reading the identifier;
Output means for outputting the data of the identifier received from the reading means, and at least comprising:
Learning system.   The learning system according to claim 1, wherein at least a learning management database, an identifier database, and control means are provided to constitute a main terminal, and at least reading means and output means are provided to constitute a sub-terminal. The learning system is characterized in that at least one main terminal and one printing means are provided, and one sub-terminal is provided to each student.   The learning system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the output means has a database storing at least one of audio data and video data, and refers to the database based on address data embedded in the identifier. A learning system characterized by extracting and reproducing data.   The learning system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the output means reproduces the text data embedded in the identifier by voice synthesis. The learning system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the output means directly reproduces the data embedded in the identifier.

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