[OLPC_Boston] Olin OLPC Curriculum Team - High School level Service-Learning curriculum

[Caroline Meeks]

Hi Sandra and The Curriculum Team,

I wonder if we should set up a separate mailing list for the curriculum
work.

I've talked to a "Tech-Savvy Teacher" she says:

Here are some programs that I know of

   *  http://mouse.org/
   * http://techyes.org/programs/techyes/
   * http://www.fbla-pbl.org/


At my school, we have added a stipulation to the techyes.org model
that the two projects need to be service projects, not just "tech
projects".

I agree about the bridging gender gap.  It's the entry points for many
females into technology.

Lucie deLaBruere
www.LearningWithLucie.com <http://www.learningwithlucie.com/>
www.InfiniteThinking.org <http://www.infinitethinking.org/>

http://twitter.com/techsavvygirl

Does the Olin team have cycles to devote right now?

Here are some suggestions for what we could do next.


   1. Review the programs she has pointed us to looking for the following
      1. Could we partner with these people? Partnering helps with publicity
      and potentially content
      2. What can we learn from this site? Is there model curriculum we
      could use as a starting place?
      3. Is there content here that we want to include in our curriculum
   2. Brainstorm Learning Objectives
   3. Logistics
      1. How will kids get Sugar
      2. How will they know what needs testing?
      3. Where and how will they report bugs?
      4. How will they follow up and retest when bugs are fixed?


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Sandra Lam <Sandra.Lam at students.olin.edu>wrote:

>  Hello!
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> An Olin OLPC team would like to be the *Curriculum* team for OLPC.
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> We plan on visiting schools that use the XOs once a week for about an hour
> to see what kind of activities the children like to do with the XOs, and
> which ones they can learn from.  From this we would like to integrate the XO
> with the material they are learning in school to create activities the
> teachers can use in school.  This way the XO can be used to facilitate the
> learning of all different subjects in school.
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> If you have any questions/concerns, feel free to contact me (Sandra Lam).
> Thanks!
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> Sandra Lam
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