The PolyAgogic Cyber Space : A project to give few answers.

 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".


Side view of the PolyAgogic Cyber Space

Top view of the PolyAgogic Cyber Space

 Structure of the P.A.C.S.
 

Great Cyber Amphi with space for


Different kinds of specialized rooms for technical, pedagogical and social functions.

Functions of the P.A.C.S.

 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 :

Pedagogic functions : Social functions : Conclusion

 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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Patrick Saint-Jean

Master of Conferences and searcher of CREACI
Conception, Research and Study on Arts and Industrial Creation
at Ecole Normale Supérieure,
61 avenue du Président wilson, 94235 Cachan Cedex, France
E-Mail : pstjean@ens-cachan.fr; Tel : (33 1) 47 40 24 39
and CRI, Center of Research on the Image at the University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, France.
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