My first thought would be for term papers that students write to be
published on Wiki - so students can (in any discipline) do research on a
topic, and write the paper/entry - correct any errors that the teacher
finds, and then create the entry on the Wikipedia. Given the number of term
papers that are written by students worldwide, we'd get a lot of content
very quickly. Then they'd also be sharing the knowledge that they have
gained.
Jacqueline A. Morris
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First of all, it is a joy to learn from you and to know about all of these
new technologies. I keep learning and catching up. I was impressed by what
Andy shared with us. I looked at Noah's , statement.. and thought
How do we invite, attract, explain and involve teachers in meaningful ways
in this conversation?
What is the gateway to this material for use in schools? Pros and cons. I
did note that few women were involved in this great conversation.
. I may have missed it, ie how do we
share to inform teachers of Wikis ie best practices in using them?. I have a
lot of time most of the time. How do we create enough time for teachers to
explore, evaluate, add, augment, and try out these new practices?
With the current policies in education, how do we allow, create , share
possibilities for educational use in this very NCLB testing , memorization
era?
Teachers want to know.
Andy said...that Tim Berners Lee said...
What I'd like to see happen: I'd like to see lots of curricula like the
MIT open courseware initiative being picked up by K-12 The tricky
thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia
articles, like Wikipedia, you really need to keep education materials
sown together.
So I'd love to see a student be able to fly through this
courseware, maybe in 3-D, following his or her interests. I know it
takes a huge amount of efforts to keep these things [like Wikipedia and
the Open Courseware Project] up to date, and I'd like to see teachers
help contribute to it
There are some amazing projects out there.. so how do we share with
teachers?
With whose permission?
Students can work together when they can interact with simulations, with
teachers, but particularly with each other. And for that we need lots of
tools, lots of standards, lots of technology. There's lots of work to do
out there
Bugscope
http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/
The Bugscope project is an educational outreach program for K-12 classrooms.
The project provides a resource to classrooms so that they may remotely
operate a scanning electron microscope to image bugs at high
magnification. The
microscope is remotely controlled in real time from a classroom computer
over
the Internet using a web browser.
Bugscope provides a state-of-the-art microscope resource for teachers that
can be readily integrated into classroom activities. The classroom has
ownership
of the project - they design their own experiment and provide their own bugs
to be imaged in the microscope. The Bugscope project is primarily oriented
towards K-12 classrooms and there is no cost to participate in the project.
Some of the work is involving teachers in meaningful practice in education
with professional development and support.. see www.eot.org
EOT-PACI Projects
These projects are undertaken by and in association with partners of the
Education, Outreach and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational
Infrastructure (EOT-PACI). With an emphasis on how projects may be used by
students,
teachers, science and engineering professionals, government planners and the
general public,
EOT-PACI invites everyone to take advantage of the wide variety of useful
tools, resources, workshops and technological know-how generated by the more
than
thirty collaborating organizations of EOT-PACI.
Biology Student Workbench
http://www.eot.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=print
pa
geartid=7
The Biology Workbench is widely recognized as a significant bioinformatics
resource that provides a suite of interactive tools which draw on a host of
biology databases and allows people to compare molecular sequences using
high
performance computing facilities, visualize and manipulate molecular
structures,
and generate phylogenetic hypotheses.
ChemSense
ChemSense is an NSF-funded research project to examine the impact of
representational tools, chemical investigations, and classroom discourse on
chemistry
learning.
http://www.eot.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewa
rt
icleartid=10
First a conversation needs to be started about linking technology people
with
teachers and some kind of time sharing and understanding. I saw Tim Berners
Lee at WSIS