The P.A.C.S project is a new concept for answering to the fundamental problem of the evolution of the pedagogy. Our project is planified to have an application in the project of the Education Village at Plaza Aztecis of Pomona in California, who manifest this volontary way by creating a Virtual School House connected with 1000 classrooms in 40 school offices (Los Angeles County Office of Education).
Belonging to the importance of disciplinary fields to specify
and localize the multimedia information ; belonging to the increased number
of these disciplinary fields which is weighty for the scolarity ; belonging
to the importance of transversal disciplines to organize the complexity
of the information in a pluri-disciplinary globalization ; belonging to
the increased number of these pluri-disciplinary fields which is weightier
than usual for the scolarity ; belonging to increased diversified and specialized
multimedia informations, where the different significations are according
to the disciplinary and pluri-disciplinary fields, which are weightiest
for the scolarity and the people who want obtain a good culture and practice ;
the question is :
Which para-education the Educational District need, for permanent education
to understand, learn, discuss and make synthesis of these multimedia, disciplinary
and pluri-disciplinary informations for the usual, civic and working live
of children, parents, teacher and people ?
For that, through different experimentations and developping experiences
people must have the possibility to make interferences (relationships)
between the local and global notions, concepts, facts, perception, sensations,
affection, according to the concretisation, the abstraction and the virtualisation
of the multimedia information. The purpose is also to graduate the difficulty
between the social world and the work world with the Kit it, the do it
and the live it your-self and together.
With these disciplines (computer graphics, computer art, virtual reality
and simulation, multimedia as CD-Rom, intra and internet, hypermedia and
multimedia interactive data-base), the opened computer system is adapted
to give solutions of the problem because it is together a multimedia with
texts, images, movies, sounds, and an unimedia with the numerical Virtual
where interactivity and programmation are possible for communication, understanding
communication and so for education.
The particularity of computer expression is that it shoulb be a classic
kind of communication but also spectacular, visual, unique, amuzing and
an entertaining for young people, the working forces who want to enrich.
This should be a good approach for learning and using new technologies
with new ways of working or just living. And it should be used for para-education
where students of all ages, parents of students and professors could meet
for free texturing (processing) the multimedia information in their brain
through concrete projects including their owns points of view and convictions
with these of the others, and like this evoluate with freedom and democracy
togeither through an individual, collective and social way. The quantities
and qualities of multimedia informations given and treated not only like
concept, but as discussed and processing facts, percept and affect which
is necessary in better work and live are the guaranty of a good efficiency
in educational fields.
The solution is given with the structure and the function of a
part of this Education Village :
The "PolyAgogic Cyber Space VOLUNtary Textured and Integrated
System or PACS VOLUNTATIS".
Structure of the P.A.C.S.
Great Cyber Amphi with space for
Different kinds of specialized rooms for technical, pedagogical
and social functions.
Every people could have a credit card which give the possibility to have a personal disk space and participate to the collective space. They use technical pedagogical and social functions to propose these informations and participation (active as actors or not as spectators) in different projects.
Technical functions :
We have studied the problem of the 3D Design and the state of
the art in computer solutions by virtual reality and other applications
of the numerical Virtual, for opening on the problem of the multimedia
and polyagogic teaching and conceiving according to the pluri-disciplinary
fields and the importance to balancing the triad concrete-abstract-virtual
in education and development of the human through the body, the spirit
as mind and the soul as anima and feeling. To obtain solving answer we
propose a project for experimentation and study with production of courses,
training services, multimedia products, virtual entreprise training for
education, but also the entertainments and leasures.
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