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Please help us to better organize the wiki for educators to use. Currently, there is an overbalanced amount of technical content because a lot of hardware and software is underway. But the OLPC is not a project to create a cheap Linux laptop and will be a '''TOTAL AND UTTER FAILURE''' if that is what comes out of it. |
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== How many bytes? == |
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For the OLPC to succeed as an education project, it needs top quality educational content. This is a major challenge since the world is currently awash in mediocre educational content in digital form. Someone has to sort out the gems that already exist. This may require licencing negotiations. |
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All the people participating in writing this wiki have internet access. |
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Most of the children will not have internet. |
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To put some useful content to the laptop when it is delivered is important. |
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However, as an open source project we expect that we can harness the efforts of many people to create some truly innovative educational content. Stuff like MATLAB for kids ([[Squeak]]'s Etoys come close to this). |
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The laptop will have 500 MByte for |
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*Operating System |
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*Applications |
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*Content |
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*The files produced be the user |
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How much is reserved for Content? |
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== Sites for Reading the Standards used in US Schools and the UN Sites for Education Policy == |
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I did a Google search and found this site for locating the current standards written for education in the US. The site gives a summary and then connects to sites for a more indepth collection of the actual standards. [http://www.education-world.com/standards/national/index.shtml] This site tells a little about the organizations involved in writing the standards. Although Project 2061 was discussed as the results of the work of those writing the science standards, the short description did not mention NSTA or the contributions of NSTA in developing the standards in Project 2061 for science. I did not test the other links to other standards. |
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This site also links to state standards. |
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I looked at the UN sites for education. I saw policy statements, and a push for basic education for all with reports from several conferences. I did not locate a comprehensive set of standards, except for the goal of basic literacy in language and arithmetic. |
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The UN sites of interest to the project will include these sites and the information linked to them. |
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[http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/ed_for_all/background/world_conference_jomtien.shtml] An original call for policy in 1990 |
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[http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/ed_for_all/dakfram_eng.shtml] A more advanced policy statement from a conference in 2000 |
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The home page for UNESCO education page is |
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[http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22896&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html. |
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A new database of educational information, experts, and institutions will be |
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[http://www.unesco.org/education/emap/public_index.php?] |
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--[[User:Valerie@vforteachers.com|Valerie@vforteachers.com]] 18:50, 26 May 2006 (EDT) |
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Revision as of 21:36, 4 July 2006
Please help us to better organize the wiki for educators to use. Currently, there is an overbalanced amount of technical content because a lot of hardware and software is underway. But the OLPC is not a project to create a cheap Linux laptop and will be a TOTAL AND UTTER FAILURE if that is what comes out of it.
For the OLPC to succeed as an education project, it needs top quality educational content. This is a major challenge since the world is currently awash in mediocre educational content in digital form. Someone has to sort out the gems that already exist. This may require licencing negotiations.
However, as an open source project we expect that we can harness the efforts of many people to create some truly innovative educational content. Stuff like MATLAB for kids (Squeak's Etoys come close to this).