Lepion

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Lepion , formerly Reading Pirate , is a free, donation-financed , web-based program to promote reading in schools.

target

The aim of the program is to strengthen the students' desire to read and thus also their understanding of the text through interaction between books, the Internet and competition (collecting points) .

target group

The program is aimed at schools, educational institutions and libraries. Students can only participate through their teachers, who register with Lepion and set up point accounts for their students.

function

Questions to students

A student reads a book listed at Lepion or, alternatively, listens to an audio piece from Lepion. The child then uses a password to access their individual Internet account and access the book they have read. The program asks the child up to 12 questions, which must be answered in a specific time using the multiple choice method. The answers are evaluated for correctness and credited to the student account. The questions require intensive reading. In contrast to Antolin, there is no point deduction. In a test mode, even a user who is not logged in can answer questions about a random book.

Questioning

The questions about books can be created by anyone on a special input page. Thus it is also possible for parents and even students to create a questionnaire for a book. After a question has been entered, it will be edited before it is made available to the registered students.

Audio pieces

In the case of audio pieces, a questionnaire is created like for a normal book, and an audio file read by a student is placed in the system. The editorial team then checks the copyright of the recording of the audio piece in Lepion.

statistics

The respective student or the parents who are registered via their respective account have access to the student's statistics . For comparison, anonymized data from the other schools and students are displayed. The respective teacher has access to the statistical data of all his students and otherwise also to the anonymized data of the other users.

business

Lepion is developed and operated by Stephan Dreisbach. The main sponsor is the web portal Mathepirat . After trademark disputes , the original name Reading Pirate was changed to Lepion .

distribution

Since Lepion is a free program and does not do extensive advertising, it relies on word of mouth . Its distribution area is therefore essentially limited to North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria . However, it is also used in schools in numerous other federal states and abroad. According to the provider, the number of Lepion schools rose to almost 3,000 by October 2011. The offer is used by around 70,000 schoolchildren in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and contains quiz questions on around 5,000 books of children's and youth literature (as of October 2011). Schoolchildren processed far more than eight million questions (as of October 2011). The focus is on grades 1 to 7.

criticism

Lepion is questionable from a data protection point of view, as personal data of the students are passed on to a non-public body, the operator (see e.g. § 11 LDSG-SH). A profile of the supposed reading performance of the students in private hands can be created, the further use of which is not subject to the supervision of government agencies.

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