About COOOL STEM Games Collaborative Open Online and Ongoing Learning through STEM games, activities and projects and earn badges from the referees!
Essentially this project bootstraps a frugal lab for STEM by building simple DIY lab instruments that can then be used to develop STEM habits. The platform is open to everyone, parents, teachers, students. Attached is a photo of a simple web cam I rigged up and a video grabbed from it. https://stemgames.metastudio.org/about On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:05 AM Michelle C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > I am fairly new to the group. > > I am part of a team that runs an "Open Education" initiative, Tamarind > Tree <https://tamarindtree.org> at Dahanu (about two hours north of > Mumbai). > > Our space is grounded on the open source philosophy, believing that > every learner must have access to high quality learning through Open > Educational Resources (OERs), enabling them to become life long learners. > > Towards this, we have a combination of Open hardware (SBCs), open > gamified tools installed on our customised OS (Treebian!) and content > and courses hosted on an open LMS (My Big Campus > <https://mybigcampus.in> on moodle). Content is generated based on the > NCERT courses and being released under a CC-BY license. Its a DIY space > with all this being developed, run and managed in-house by a handful of > people. > > The school is recognised by the Maharashtra Government, catering to the > local adivasi children from Pre Primary to Grade 8. We we will be going > up to Class 10. Its run in English. > > We would he happy to host members of this group for a visit here or even > offer our space for meetings and share some of our challenges with > setting up an open digital model in a rural area. We serve food to the > kids, so hosting a group of 10-20 people is not an issue on a weekday. > The train takes 2 hours from Bandra and comes straight to Dahanu Road. > > We are also looking for collaborations on the following fronts: > > 1. A Moodle and network administrator (can work remotely) (paid position) > > 2. People to come and volunteer and lead open source projects (building > weather station, Open Street Map, teaching imaging, etc) with our students > > 3. People interested in building educational content, learning videos, > games in open source. > > 4. Our students have been working on Scratch, but we need people for > mentoring and inspiration! > > Please do let me know how to take this forward. > > Regards > > Michelle > > Tamarind Tree > > +9284254470/+8806661235 > > twitter: @tamarindtree2 > > Fb: Tamarind Tree <https://www.facebook.com/ttschooldahanu/notifications/> > > > > -- > https://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- https://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
