Educators

There are a number of ways to become involved with the OLPC project. Educators and educational publishers are invited to

• Read some background material on constructionist education;
• Share ideas for innovative educational uses of the laptops;
• Share ideas for educational content that could be distributed on the laptops or to OLPC's partner countries (see below);
• Share ideas for educational activities, lessons, and curricula that could make use of the laptops in one of their many capacities;
• Help modify and package existing content for use on the laptops;
• Test early-stage laptops and content modules, and provide feedback on teacher and student experiences
• Contribute to a Wikibook text in progress, like
  • OLPC_-_Algebra_1_in_Simple_English
• Contribute articles to Simple English Wikipedia. Information in simple English will be critical to these new learners.

Project Ideas

See Activating educators for some general ideas and organizational principles.

Synthesizing Info from Pilot Programs

• Extrapolate ideas for activities from Carla's reports, including:
  • Example activity. (See Activity template).
  • Anecdotes/pix from actual activity

Expand presence of educators on wiki

• Begin w/ template for educational org user page.
• Ask specific orgs to seed:
  • MaMaMedia
  • E3F
  • WikiEducator
  • Curriki

Educational bundle as part of each release

Emphasis on mixed/multi-media format, composed of:

• Activity
• Sample lesson plan(s) for activity
• Example of activity in use, possibly including...
  • Kid's final product (if generative activity) or
  • Page that documents activity in classroom (anecdotes, pix, etc).
• Explanation of theory behind activity.

First one for a July release? (Or practice w/ eToys for late June).

Educational activity guidelines

See Educational activity guidelines. Basically, the HIG for educators, w/ examples.

Educator Jam

Cf. Game Jam, but for educators w/ aim of designing activities for Activites.

Discussion begins 6/18.

• Dates?
• Locations?
• Agenda?

Meta-indexing for library

How to be able to search existing content repositories?

• XML spec/namespace?
• thing to embed?

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