Great stuff! Thanks for the link, Sabbu. I need more time to explore this, but it looks very much like the old frontier one-room schools in the USA. Actually, there are still a lot of them in places like rural Montana. A lot of great people came out of this type of school with wonderful educations, so we know it can work. I wonder how the XO and Sugar could best be integrated into this. I would love to see a sample of the "School in a Box" Caryl
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:23:26 +0530 > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher > > On Monday 01 Nov 2010 9:43:28 am Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: > > Are y'all familiar with the RIVER Project? (Rishi Valley Institute for > > Educational Resources) > > their website doesn't do quite justice on how concepts like this > > multi-age social-based mentoring that is being shared have in a most > > appropriate approach to education in poor areas. > > > > http://www.river-rv.org/ > Thank you for this link. It is good to know of other efforts towards > educational reforms. MGML is already in place for grades 1-3 in all public > schools in my state and is being expanded to higher grades every year. > > MGML is a problem only in curricular-driven environments. This is how > children > learn, say, in homes or in playground. Grouping happens naturally by level of > competence and interest rather than by age. > > Previous efforts that I tracked did not close the loop. That is, they would > train teachers and expect changes to happen but did not verify if learning > actually happened. No method works for every child. That is why Sikshana > decided to work backwards - ensure every child is able to learn and keep > learning and support teachers to use their own masala (mix) of methods. > > Subbu > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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