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Re: [school-discuss] DSS for Teachers, Adminstrators....



hello,

i went through the harvesting process for louisiana, dept. of education -
it is a moving target.

i haven't found a single repository for all or even most states.

anything like that exist?

mike eschman, etc ...

On Thursday 30 January 2003 08:35 am, David Bucknell wrote:
> Dear Schoolforgers,
>
> I may be off here, but on first (quick) reading, my reaction is to wonder
> if, perhaps, some of you might be less than totally aware of what is
> already available on the Web that is not open source, but is, for practical
> purposes, in the public domain.
>
> Not only does each state have its standards, and so do all of the
> commonwealth countries, but each national organization,
> discipline-specific, has linked standards to actual lessons -- and they are
> _very_ well done and complete.
>
> You might also be interested in these sites because they introduce you to
> current pedagogy which, interestingly, supports the open source software
> development model, by the way. I am going to address a group of
> international teachers and technology leaders in March and I plan for to
> make this correlation a central part of my talk. Anyone interested in
> discussing it with me would be a welcomed collaborator.
>
> If you already know all this, please forgive me for butting in. I just want
> to make sure that you have current information. For this reason, I am
> attaching (html) the draft of a page I began preparing for my faculty to
> show them examples of what the Web offers in place of the traditional
> textbook. Please have a look if interested in curriculum because the first
> part (top chunk of links) is about how to build standards-based lessons;
> the next parts are discipline-specific and include a totally open and
> simple idea, the Web quest. If you want an idea of some of the neat things
> teachers are doing these days, look at the Web quests.
>
> Speaking of databases such as you describe, have a look at the McRel links
> and the English Language Arts links from NCTE (National Counsel of Teachers
> of English) and the IRA (International Reading Association). Go slowly and
> read deeply. It will help you in whatever you decide to do with curriculum.
>
> Feel free to use my list as a starting point for your database.
>
> For me, what's needed is something that pushes, or invites, teachers to
> publish their own lessons under open licenses and to tie their lessons to
> the use of free and open software.
>
> Just a quick thought.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> David
>
> ==
>
> Quoting Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>:
> > Gerard Lam wrote:
> > > Just a thought - We can obtain and compile a master database of each
> >
> > state's
> >
> > > curriculum standards (or link to another DB system)?  Then the next
> > > step would be to have a system (some call it a curriculum manager) or
> > > program
> >
> > in
> >
> > > which it can match the right lesson plan (or content)  to fulfill the
> > > specified requirements. Lesson plans (pulled form a pool of content)
> > > can then be presented to the educator, which in turn can pick the one
> > > to
> >
> > fulfill
> >
> > > that requirement (or have it be done automatically)...  [...] Of
> > > course,
> >
> > time has
> >
> > > to be spent on gathering the functional requirements, process,  and
> > > many other details...and more importantly is there already something
> > > like that out there?
> >
> > Chris Hornbaker is working on something similar to this at
> > OpenSchooling.org:
> >
> > http://openschooling.org/en/about.php
> >
> > I don't know the current status of that project, but I think it's
> > best to collaborate with him on this rather than to start anew.
> >
> > --
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> >
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> >
> > Doug Loss                 Courage is resistance to
> > Data Network Coordinator  fear, mastery of fear --
> > Bloomsburg University     not absence of fear.
> > dloss@bloomu.edu           Mark Twain

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