On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Tony Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > Actually the model for the website/wiki already exists. It is DART at > the Bering Straits School District. They have married mediawiki with > their own software to provide a killer tool. The standards, lesson > plans, etc. are in a wiki. DART maintains a data base which allows > teachers to see/record the status of each of their students in each area > of each subject/strand. > > Having the curriculum standards in a wiki makes it trivial for each > deployment to set that up for their own requirements cross linked to > anything relevant. > > Tony > > Berry wrote: > > >From Michael's questions: > > > > * Is there anything we could spend our time on which would yield a > > > greater > > > return on investment? > > The most helpful thing I can think of right now would be a > special-purpose website/wiki only for curricula. Each curriculum should > map to a course in moodle.sugarlabs.org. We need to start the process of > mapping standard curricula to the open-source resources (quizzes, > readings, activities) that are available in some sort of intelligible > order. Then an interested developer or educator could start plugging in > the holes. > > Really, all is needed is some kind of special-purpose wiki mapped to > moodle. No special software. The hard and incredibly *unsexy* work is > uploading the n curricula from X states/countries and mapping it to > sequenced materials. We can talk about quality, pedagogy ad infinitum > but the vast majority of teachers don't have a starting point to even > provide mediocre education beyond what they are currently provided by > their own governments.
This is *exactly right*. I've hoped to have more time to devote to this effort, but my day job has be stretched pretty thin. But this is exactly where we need to go. --g -- Got an XO that you're not using? Loan it to a needy developer! [[ http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Exchange_Registry ]] _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep