On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:00:07PM -0400, Indigo196 wrote: > > Thanks for the fantastic ideas -- I think your suggestions make it > obvious I have to 'focus' on 'who' the audience is. In general most K-12 > teachers will be relatively low tech and interested in how 'open' can > improve the learning process. They may teach math, social studies, > foreign language, science or business. Very few will be teacher who are > teaching computer science or programming, but if there is a core group > of those -- the topics would expand in scope.
Charles, OK, thanks for the clarification. To be clear here, I am definitely not coming from a computer science or programming focus. My ideas were specifically for the kind of teachers you describe -- math, social studies, languages, science, business, etc. -- but they are about teaching participation. A key part of how open can improve the learning process is the open participation. It's only marginally better to use CC licensed open educational resources (OER). It is, however, MUCH better if you, as a teacher, find a way to contribute back to those resources; help spread them through distribution; make new resources that are derived or influenced by the original OER and release those under a CC license; etc. All that can be covered in your session. I could be dead wrong, but I think it's a missed opportunity if we stop short of showing teachers the real power of free and open, and I think you can do that in the time allowed. So, for example, you could do this: 1. Break the group up in to related disciples. 2. Have the sub-groups find an OER related to their discipline. 3. The sub-groups review the OER for any improvements or additions they can make. 4. If there is time, they make the changes and submit the changed version back to the OER originator. This all surrounded with explanatory content about what they are doing, why they are doing it, etc. At the end, they have a concrete example, may have actually made a contribution somewhere, and have real experience to apply to their real work. Again, just another random idea :), but I'm trying to get closer to what you need for going that extra set of steps to participation beyond observation. - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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