Re: [school-discuss] NETS (Nat'l Edu. Tech. Standards) lesson plans for OSS edu software?

[Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Kendrick a écrit :
> A teacher-and-grad-student over on the 'tuxpaint-users' mailing list
> asked if the Tux Paint project had any lesson plans available which used
> the software.  (There are some "didactical laboratories" published in
> Italian, but beyond that, I know of none.)


It is a very interesting subtle shift in the free software education
community.

At first we need free software we can use in education. Some time later,
educators become aware of free software and they start using these
software, then they naturally look for contents they can use with.

I think this is where we stand right now. Once we start to get more and
more contents for free software we will attract more and more teachers,
then we will have more and more contents, and so on. We will enter in a
virtuous circle to the benefice of free software users.
Future looks quite bright for free software in education.

Did I told you about GNU-Edu Odile Benassy is developing. Take a look at
http://www.ofset.org/gnuedu and http://gnuedu.ofset.org


Hilaire Fernandes

> 
> She also wanted to know how such lessons would align with NETS standards.
> For those who don't know (like I didn't, before being asked about this :^) ),
> 
>   "The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project is an
>   ongoing initiative of the International Society for Technology in
>   Education (ISTE) and a consortium of distinguished partners and
>   co-sponsors."
> 
>     http://cnets.iste.org/
> 
> 
> Ben Armstrong suggested I bring this topic up over here on
> 'schoolforge-discuss'.  I was wondering if anyone out here knew much
> about NETS, and/or how to put together lesson plans for Open Source
> educational software that would adhere to the standard.  (Is there any?)
> 
> In the meantime, since I couldn't easily find any information for
> educational software developers/publishers over at the NETS website,
> I took the liberty of dropping Lajeane Thomas, the NETS Project Director,
> a line to ask her directly. :^)
> 
> I'll keep you posted on any response I receive.
> 
> Thx in advance,
> 

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