On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 01:13, Mike Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Here in Afghanistan we have worked over the last couple months to put > together a thorough briefing note on the state of education here; the > barriers to effective education as they are understood through > conventional research and how OLPC can rapidly change the input > variables to effective education.
I love your work. What sorts of research do you plan? You can't get useful answers if you don't ask the appropriate questions. For example, is the current curriculum designed on the basis of what the country needs right now, or are parts of it inherited from the various earlier systems under British, Russian, Taliban, and US rule? > I'm quite sure that a lot of the challenges mentioned in the Briefing > Note in Afghanistan are applicable to quite a few other countries. Even the US there are issues of poverty, community violence, ideology, and lack of funding. > Just to be clear here in Afghanistan we and I'm sure no one else is > arguing against the need to improve conventional educational systems > like school buildings, teacher training, etc. But unfortunately > Afghanistan doesn't have the luxury of waiting as long as this might > take. > > http://www.paiwastoon.af/olpcbn/ > > Any comments/ discussions more than welcome. What is available in English on the Afghan education system, particularly on curriculum? http://english.moe.gov.af/ is rather sparse. > Please feel free to > reference / quote the document / use it to construct new arguments; > just we ask for attribution. If anyone is interested in helping out > here in any way (advocacy, software, etc) please do email [email protected] > . How are you planning to transform The Ministry of Education standard curriculum into interactive books with support materials for teachers? I am working on a similar project with a school system in Indiana, and there are many other such projects. http://www.earthtreasury.org/wiki.cgi?ReplacingTextbooks Here is one in California. http://www.clrn.org/fdti/ Free Digital Textbook Initiative Review Results 16 math and science texts are available from the California FDTI. Many others on many subjects are listed at http://www.librarianchick.com/ free and open educational resources > Regards, > > -Mike > _______________________________________________ > Olpc-open mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
