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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
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
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
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
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.
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Some typical responses of school students to History
• Really such a boring…
• Student’s sleeping time.
• …..
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Vast Cutural Ore
• Achaeological Sites and Monuments
• Sculptures and artifacts
• Festivals and rituals
• Continuous civilisation
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Objectives
• Reintegration to Cultural heritage
• Comprehending the continuous civilization
• Providing a social and historical identity
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
History Education Enrichment
IT Archaeo-heritage Resources Learning Sciences
Strategy
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
• “Technology helps overcome the two enemies of learning: isolation and abstraction.”
George Lucas, Chairman, The George Lucas Educational Foundation
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
• 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
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Archaeo-heritage Exploratorium
A possibility
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
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
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
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
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Pedagogical layering
• Retouched Images
• Annotation
• Hot-spotting
• Text Books based Ontology
• Concept maps
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
CONCEPT MAPCONCEPT MAP
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
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
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Semantic Web
• Concept based retrieval(Text- Ontology)
• Content based retrieval(Audio, Image, ...)
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Content based retrieval
Database Search Results ( Top 3 )
Database Search Results ( Top 3 )
Input Sample
Input Sample
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
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
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
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
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Active learning tools: Reconstruction
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Pot Without Extension
Extended Skeleton Extended Pot
Active learning tools: Reconstruction
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Active learning tools: Analysis
S. Goel et al., VSMM’ 05
Computer Vision based Dance Visualisation By
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
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
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Sociable Web tools
• Learner initiated discussions• Teacher initiated discussions• Directed Browsing• Co-browsing• Online Creative Competitions
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
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
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
Pedagogical layering
• Retouched Images• Annotation• Hot-spotting• Text Books based Ontology• Concept maps
• Puzzles, • Games
Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha: Indo-US S&T Workshop, 2005
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