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* Even among those who contribute, support and establish the right "voice."
* Even among those who contribute, support and establish the right "voice."


===Project Ideas===
==Project Ideas==


=== Synthesizing Info from Pilot Programs ===
=== Synthesizing Info from Pilot Programs ===

Revision as of 13:35, 15 June 2007

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Goals

1. Building a community platform for supporting and encouraging teachers who are using XOs. See educators below.

2. Building a community platform for involving volunteers of various abilities and backgrounds (educators, teachers, and others interested in visiting and contributing). See developers below.

Educators

Educators: teachers currently in the field and those about to receive XOs (along w/ OLPC staff and supporting orgs)

  • Emphasis: support, self-documentation, journaling/blogging, collaboration and exchange.
  • To be migrated to educator wiki: XO Teachers
  • Tutorials for teachers, incl.
    • MediaWiki training (take from WikiEducator site tutorials)
    • How to use and make activities
  • Teacher Activity in general?
    • Syndicated country/pilot blogs
  • User page templates...

Developers

Developers: teachers who want to volunteer/create lesson plans/activities.

  • Develop ties to companion repository/"Educational Content Management" sites. Features include:
  • Educational activity guidelines. Principles incl.
    • Constructionism. It's important to realize and emphasize that we are looking at inspiring and supporting two types of constructionist learning.
      • ... specifically connected to digital learning with activities with XO laptops in user-communities within developing countries around the world.
      • ... in these same communities, that is going on in and out of school, with or without the laptop. Find ways for integrating the laptop as much as possible to as many activities as possible, if it makes sense; but also, we are using the fact that we can talk to these teachers about education reform in general in this context. Become a constructionist educator - an agent of change to think with about new ways of learning and teaching.
    • Collaboration
    • Iteration
    • "Viewing Source"
      • Lesson plans embedded in actual activities, written for teachers (including children-as-teachers).
    • Example activities from MMM?
  • Lesson Plan Jam
    • Bring educators of early childhood who have experiences integrating computers in constructionist ways, in and out of the classroom. Let them work in teams to build learning activities and lessons.
    • Reflection in action, guideless co-construction, platforms evaluation, etc.

Thoughts on Activities

  1. Digital/collaborative Activities, some w/ corresponding physical activity
  2. Activities that expand/enhance existing efforts
  3. Local activities vs. those that require internet connectivity

Local work with activities - a preliminary set; and on a Wiki/Web in the global application that will arrive later because we first have to figure out how to work locally with teachers and students who are novices and do not have connectivity anywhere anytime...

General Issues

How to inspire teachers to contribute?

  • Not all teachers are eager to contribute. Engage those teachers who are interested in contributing. That's an "old art."
  • Even among those who contribute, support and establish the right "voice."

Project Ideas

Synthesizing Info from Pilot Programs

Expand presence of educators on wiki

  • Begin w/ template for educational org user page. (See Educational organization template).
  • Ask specific orgs to seed:
    • WikiJunior
    • OERCommons
    • CK12? (see also cnx, curriki, &c)
    • 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?

from MaMaMedia

Emphasis on local network activities
10 activities w/ versions and themes
Aimed at K-2, computer novices We now design for Both teachers and students who are novices.
Emphasis on 3Xs.

Including initial open playful engagement and exploration , combined with structure and learning values, skills, and objectives that are suitable to curriculum and relevant to culture, location and interest.

IN JUNE : LAUNCHING initial set of 3 prototype activities, each with 3 embedded lesson plans (incl. 1 that involves internet). We also develop a strategy for a Related developer wiki and educator wiki.

Lesson 1 is how to use activities. - open play exploration
Lessons 2 and 3 are how to make your own. - self expression, both free creative flow as well as based on thematic curricular goals.
Lesson 4-5 - Exchanges via mesh.