[OLPC-Philippines] Content Development and Curriculum Integration

[Caroline Meeks]

I'd love to help!  I'm getting exactly the same feedback from the schools I
am talking to. "How does it fit in with our curriculum and testing
standards?"

I think even just very concrete and compelling examples of how it can be
used with very rigid curriculum/standards would be helpful.

How can I help?

Thanks!
Caroline

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Cherry Withers <cwithers at ekindling.org>wrote:

> Hi Caroline,
>
> One of the things that Ryan and Sandeep have found out during the course of
> talking to various educators is how this technology (both hardware and
> software) will work with existing curriculum.
>
> I'm working with the Squeakland education team in developing a baseline
> curriculum integration of Etoys for 4th graders. I took on the task of doing
> it for the subjects: Social Studies (Geography, Economics, History, Civics)
> and Health, but can expand this in other subjects. In the next few months my
> work will be tailoring some of these projects to the Philippine curriculum
> and will include the use of Sugar activities and apps as well. This will be
> useful in future pilots and deployments as guidance is critical when we deal
> with rigid curriculum in some (if not most) of the classrooms.
>
> I know you've work extensively on the use of Sugar in the classroom and my
> team and I are hoping for your help and guidance on this as we develop our
> lesson plans.
>
> Regards,
> Cherry
> P.S. I started a FlossManual called SugarEtoysCurriculum and would be
> populating it in the next few months. I hope to get contributions from the
> community on this. Take care all!
>



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