On 21 Sep 2009, at 08:24, paul perrin wrote:
I think it is mad that the government don't provide lesson plans as
part of the national curriculum - as you say thousands of teachers
are doing exactly the same work all over the country assembling
what they need to present for a lesson, when they should be
focusing on *how* to best present the information specifically for
their students.
I'm guessing when you say "lesson plan" you're actually talking about
classroom resources. A lesson plan is specific to a class on a
particular day, and of limited value to others. As to whether central
government should provide them, I think it'd be a waste of their
time, as different teachers present things in different ways
according to both their own preferences and those of their class, so
what works brilliantly in for one situation wouldn't be suitable at
all for someone else. At that point, it seems like a better solution
to have teachers creating their own, or buying what they like from a
private sector provider.
I am messing around with http://www.wikidot.com/ at the moment -
only wiki I have used, so can't compare - but seems pretty straight
forward so far - work in progress... http://ovingdean.wikidot.com/
Just one suggestion off the top of my head -- trying linking to
OpenStreetMap.org instead of (or at least as well as) Google Maps.
Looking at the two maps together:
http://tr.im/zgVy
they have just about all the same streets on, but OSM includes two
schools, numerous footpaths, names of hills, etc., and it's likely to
get more detailed more quickly too.
You could even suggest that people contribute to it as an act of
civic engagement. This might be handy:
http://walking-papers.org/print.php?id=7mv2p9b3
Enjoy.
Tim
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