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'''Curriki''', a play on the words 'curriculum' and 'wiki', is a nonprofit organization that aims to bridge the educational divide. Curriki serves as a platform on which to host Open Source Curriculum (OSC), to provide universal access to free curricula and instructional materials for grades K-12. |
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The educational organization envisioned for the OLPC initiative is that of a network of learning communities applying the following design principles: |
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Curriki’s initial focus is to develop an online repository for K-12 curricula in the areas of mathematics, science, technology, reading and language arts, social studies, and languages. To do this, the organization is partnering with publishers, curriculum developers, not-for-profits, and universities. Once a core repository is developed, the resource will attract a committed community of educators to populate, modify, and enrich it. |
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- Locally grounded but with boundary-spanning individuals who connect their local community to other communities |
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- Initially strong leadership that transforms into distributed leadership |
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- Increasingly supportive of a diversity of online activities linked to the curriculum and/or part of the schooling process |
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- Astonishingly capable of demonstrating agency |
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Curriki is also reaching out to a broad community of educators to share in, upload, or author content. (Content can be anything from a stand alone learning resource to a comprehensive unit of study.) |
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The above principles are based on previous work with networked learning communities, be they communities of learners, communities of practice or knowledge building communities. The first principle, local grounding, encourages specific educational organizations (e.g., a Department of Education) to develop partnerships with local schools and regional universities. We will provide later exemplars. |
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For more information, visit the [[Curriki]] page on this wiki or [http://www.curriki.org/ Curriki] on the web. |
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Latest revision as of 23:35, 30 November 2008
Curriki, a play on the words 'curriculum' and 'wiki', is a nonprofit organization that aims to bridge the educational divide. Curriki serves as a platform on which to host Open Source Curriculum (OSC), to provide universal access to free curricula and instructional materials for grades K-12.
Curriki’s initial focus is to develop an online repository for K-12 curricula in the areas of mathematics, science, technology, reading and language arts, social studies, and languages. To do this, the organization is partnering with publishers, curriculum developers, not-for-profits, and universities. Once a core repository is developed, the resource will attract a committed community of educators to populate, modify, and enrich it.
Curriki is also reaching out to a broad community of educators to share in, upload, or author content. (Content can be anything from a stand alone learning resource to a comprehensive unit of study.)
For more information, visit the Curriki page on this wiki or Curriki on the web.