I'd love to help! I'm getting exactly the same feedback from the schools I am talking to. "How does it fit in with our curriculum and testing standards?"
I think even just very concrete and compelling examples of how it can be used with very rigid curriculum/standards would be helpful. How can I help? Thanks! Caroline On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Cherry Withers <cwith...@ekindling.org>wrote: > Hi Caroline, > > One of the things that Ryan and Sandeep have found out during the course of > talking to various educators is how this technology (both hardware and > software) will work with existing curriculum. > > I'm working with the Squeakland education team in developing a baseline > curriculum integration of Etoys for 4th graders. I took on the task of doing > it for the subjects: Social Studies (Geography, Economics, History, Civics) > and Health, but can expand this in other subjects. In the next few months my > work will be tailoring some of these projects to the Philippine curriculum > and will include the use of Sugar activities and apps as well. This will be > useful in future pilots and deployments as guidance is critical when we deal > with rigid curriculum in some (if not most) of the classrooms. > > I know you've work extensively on the use of Sugar in the classroom and my > team and I are hoping for your help and guidance on this as we develop our > lesson plans. > > Regards, > Cherry > P.S. I started a FlossManual called SugarEtoysCurriculum and would be > populating it in the next few months. I hope to get contributions from the > community on this. Take care all! > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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