[OLPC-Philippines] Content Development and Curriculum Integration

[Caroline Meeks]

One way to think about is in terms of what one of my profs calls "Targets of
Difficulty"

What is hard to teach and learn?
and very important?
and technology could help?

Once you have your topic it'll be easier to find the standards.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Cherry Withers <cherry.withers at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hahahaha. Just thought how ironic this statement was " I was trying to stay
> away from too much US-centric lessons to adopt it to a world wide community.
> "
> now that I read it since most, if not all, of the standards on that website
> is US-centric. :-)
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Cherry Withers <cherry.withers at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Caroline,
>>
>> This is great! Now where to begin? :-)
>>
>> I'm thinking we could begin with a 4th grade curriculum. I'm hoping to get
>> this from UP Integrated School. Ryan's mailing me one (unfortunately it's
>> only in hard copy) and I'll ask for another copy. I've chosen this grade for
>> a baseline because Squeakland's education team is already starting work on
>> this. I used the Standards that I found on this website when I was thinking
>> of projects to do with Etoys for the subjects that I mentioned:
>> http://www.education-world.com/standards/  . I was trying to stay away
>> from too much US-centric lessons to adopt it to a world wide community.
>>
>> Admittedly, I have not read the ClassActs manual extensively so I have not
>> done independent research on this. But I am hoping for examples on how the
>> other Sugar activities are used, which ones are popular (therefore easier
>> for the teachers to adapt to and integrate), mesh networking use, etc. in
>> the classroom. I have not looked at the available Sugar Activities/ Apps
>> recently but are there any teaching tools that can substitute for existing
>> pen and paper use like: a multiple question creator app, graphing paper app,
>> a grading/report card app?
>>
>> When I was brainstorming this in the past, I was looking at the browse,
>> camera, read and write apps but there may already be new apps to consider.
>>
>> Will send you a sample of my initial draft of the Squeakland courseware.
>> I'm still working on the detailed lesson plans for them.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Cherry
>> P.S.  Pssst! Hey there community!! Chime in! Would need your inputs here
>> as well!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Caroline Meeks <
>> caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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!
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Caroline Meeks
>>> Solution Grove
>>> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>>>
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