Educators

There are a number of ways to become involved with the OLPC project:

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, such as 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.

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

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

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).

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

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

Discussion begins 6/18.

How to be able to search existing content repositories?

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