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Re: [school-discuss] DSS for Teachers, Adminstrators....
Hi Mike,
I don't know what you mean about Lousiana being a moving target. Maybe it is. I
do know that if you have a look at the ... Language arts lessons from NCTE and
how they are correlated with standards, you'll gain a good picture of what's
available.
Have a look at McRel and the links to the National Orgs supporting various
disciplines. Each of the states, by the way, have based their standards on those
created by these national orgs. Then the university- school consortia are pretty
darned well-done. Think-Read-Write is a stunner.
David
Quoting mike eschman <meschman@etc-edu.com>:
> 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.
> > >
> > > --
> > > If this helped you please take the time to rate the value
> > > of this post; just click on the Affero link below.
> > >
> > > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=drloss
> > >
> > > 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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>
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