Teacher Jam Chicago
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Google Chicago
What's this all about?
An OLPC Jam is a content creation crunch that gets participants from idea to reality in just a short period of time. Anyone passionate about technology in education - teachers, students, parents alike - can come in for the evening (FLESH THIS OUT)
The Plan
Tuesday, July 29
5-9 pm
Google Chicago
20 West Kinzie St.
Chicago, IL 60610
Schedule
Tentatively slated out for 4 hours, weekday evening
[times not set]
5 - 5:30 pm: Introductory remarks
6:30 - 7 pm: Stuff thrown up on board
7 - 8 pm: Brainstorm and dinner
8 - 8:30 pm: Brainstorms
8:30 - 9 pm: Wrap-up - Determination of desired outputs (may need more time?)
The rough game plan
This is a draft, thrown up during the ILXO open house - it will be fleshed in shortly by Nlee.
- One day, all day, on a Saturday.
- Food provided.
- The IL K-12 curriculum standards (or a subset thereof) are thrown up on a very large wall.
- Teachers (and students and hackers, but primarily teachers) from across the state come in for the day to...
- Fill in the grid with ways (and perhaps curricular plans) existing materials on/for the XO can be used to address these standards (i.e. "you could use TurtleArt to convey this math concept in 4th grade, and again in 7th.")
- Identify gaps where the XO could support acquisition of these curricular standards "if only this one missing part existed!" and coming up with descriptions of what needs to be built, so that hackers can build it
- Brainstorm on pilots
