Hey Rita, maybe someone from OLPC Association in Miami (e.g. Melissa) can connect you with the folks at Liberty City’s Holmes Elementary School where a Knight Foundation sponsored project started last year: http://blog.laptop.org/2012/01/27/olpc-and-knight-foundation-launch-digital-literacy-program-in-miami-school/#.UO73nW_K5AI
Cheers, Christoph On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Rita Freudenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > on behalf of my colleagues I'm looking for a school they can visit while > they are attending FETC conference in Orlando at the end of this month. > Here in Magdeburg, Germany, we are working in a project "classroom of the > future", dealing with the technological and educational challenges when > using laptops in the classroom. They are very much interested to see how > these things work in other countries. > If you know a school they could visit or a person they could talk to, > please let me know. They are not only interested to see best practice, but > also, what kind of problems arise. Since we are at the beginning of this > here in our area, we want to learn what works and what to anticipate. > > For plan b, do you think I could just approach schools in the area and ask > if they can visit? They are both computer scientists, but their first > training was to become teachers. Now they work here at the university in > Magdeburg in the teacher training group. > > Thank you for your help! > > Greetings, > Rita > > Rita Freudenberg > [email protected] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: [email protected]
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