Two important points can be made from a survey which Randy Fisher noted last month: http://www.oerafrica.org/SearchourDatabase/tabid/295/mctl/Details/id/36643/Default.aspx "Why teachers chose resources (i.e., OERs) The top two responses (by far) The content matches the grade level of my students The content is up to date"
Educators are managers of information. Like all managers (in and outside of education) they want operating information quickly and they want it current. WE needs to work on portals like Brent Simpson's http://www.wikieducator.org/Portal:Primary to provide information by grade level (and/or age - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_education ) cross referenced with subject. This will help users find information quickly thus making WikiEducator.org the choice of educators. Secondly, WikiEducator has as one of its missions to help different learning communities to develop courses and materials. Being of the old “New Math” teaching approaches a greater emphasize on examples, as opposed to “this is the definition” approach, is needed. Examples, illustrations, activities, “reflections on what we see around us”, content filled situations, etc. need to be emphasized. This will do more to help learning communities formalize educational programs in the context of their language, economic and social environment. Some math examples are available in my sandbox section http://wikieducator.org/User:Jkelly952 Jim Kelly --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
