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?"<div><br></div><div>I think even just very concrete and compelling examples of how it can be used with very rigid curriculum/standards would be helpful. </div>
<div><br></div><div>How can I help?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Caroline<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Cherry Withers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cwithers@ekindling.org">cwithers@ekindling.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Caroline, <br><br>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. <br>
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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. <br>
<br>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. <br><br>Regards, <br><font color="#888888">Cherry <br>
</font>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!<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>
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