Discussions

Discussions in learning device will happen like this. First of all there should be an initiator for a discussion. There is 4 type of discussions. Intra-school ( For discussions among the students and faculty within a school. This type of discussion does not require internet. Wi-Fi enabled devices will do the connectivity among students within that school), Inter-school ( This is restricted to schools upto higher secondary or whatever you call it in your country. Like before college. There can be discussion between any school between any countries.). Third is for colleges ( Between colleges of any country ). Fourth is research. Except first, all the other 3 requires internet connectivity. Before going to the discussion rooms, the content got from a school should be stored in an external hard disk ( Memory in TB) ( to be kept by student and updated daily ). When a particular year is over, all the contents will be transferred to that disk and kept for future reference. One external hard disk for every year.

Discussion rooms will be initiated by an administrator and can be moderated by few. The moderators and administrators will have the full content of discussion in their disk. When they come online, the discussions can be further expanded. Anybody who wants to participate in the discussion should be accepted by the administrator or moderators after going through their profile. The Profile will have their name, picture and school or college details. The device can only be bought by an academic institutions and distributed to their students with authentic information about them. In the discussion room there will be no name or number pointing to any person. There will only be queries and answers. After the discussion, the person who answered well and got most star rating by peers will get more credit points. Calculation of credits will be a background operation. Participants will not know who answered what. It is only the content that speaks. More points for intra-school than inter- school. More points for Colleges than inter-school. More points for research than Colleges. And also if a person having more credits for himself and he gives 4 stars to your answer, you get more points. Anybody can participate in any Discussion room provided they have got invites. There is one more advantage, anybody who is using this device can look at any discussion and download it to their device, provided the discussion is not private. If private, only the participants can view.

The discussion starts like this. When somebody asks a question “What is 1*2”. The invitees to the discussion press follow-up. First participants says “It is Multiplication. The method of adding first number times the second number”. Second participant says “This symbol is seen in multiplication table”.       

  

Any participant can click on the box. The Box opens and you get to view its contents. Upon viewing this box, every participant must rate it. From 1 to 4 stars. If he has doubt in that content, he must click on the query button to view all the queries in that particular box. If his query is not already present he opens a new query. In this case “what is addition?”. If participant feels to add more to the answer, he can do a follow-up, like “Basics of Maths”. This is very simple representation of discussion rooms. The boxes can be filled with Text, Video, Audio, Animation whatever to add clarity to the topic of discussion.

The advantage of this discussion setup is that nobody's follow-up and answer is lost. This is more effective than people sitting in a room and having discussion. No shouting. No losing anybody's precious views or great ideas. And also anybody who views these discussions will be greatly benefited.