On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:17, valerie <[email protected]> wrote: > How about a little grassroots project? Does anyone have a curriculum > project that would be an appropriate pilot and would be willing to > have WE collaborators work on?
We actually have numerous grassroots projects worldwide, alongside numerous official projects. California has 16 math and science texts going into classrooms under Creative Commons licenses. You can download them from http://www.clrn.org/fdti/ . There are large numbers of free texts listed by Stacy Reed, the Librarian Chick, at http://www.librarianchick.com/ , on all school subjects. Worldwide, we need about 10,000 topic modules and sample lesson plans to cover every subject in every grade, K-12. Alan Kay, inventor of Object Oriented Programming, Graphical User Interfaces, and the Dynabook education computer concept, has a gravity lesson for third grade which I have reworked in Turtle Art and published at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art-0.86#Lessons . If you want to start a new project, we should ask everybody here what the possibilities are. What subjects do we know? What tools can we use? Where can we make a difference? A tiny project that could use help is to gather links to curriculum materials by state, country, and subject matter in one place at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education/Curriculum_Standards . It is just a matter of finding the Web sites for Departments and Ministries of Education, and subject matter organizations like NCTM, and locating their curriculum documents. > Ideally, this would be a real workshop or course that will be > delivered in the near future - 3-4 months (June 2010?). An outline and/ > or objectives would be good - doesn't have to be elaborate, but needs > to set the tone for the contributors. Then we will invite others to > collaborate. It's complicated, because we have little or no idea of what children and computers together are capable of, except that it is far more than is generally expected, as in the cases of the Edison Talking Typewriter teaching two-year-olds to read and type, or the various projects that have taught different programming languages in the third grade. How ambitious would you like to get? How will we test and > I'm have some time to contribute to such a 'proof of concept' project > as project coordinator, editor, researcher... > > Are you interested in working on this proof of concept project? In > what capability? > > Do you have a project that would be appropriate to collaborative > development? What subject matter expertise is required? What other > resources would be needed? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- 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/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
