[DC LoCo] Off Topic: Edtech, Debian, Raspberry Pi
jerry w
jerrywone at gmail.com
Wed Nov 7 10:44:15 UTC 2012
on gmail I get the following prepended to your email
<quote>
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so this message could be a scam to steal personal information. Ignore,
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</quote>
someone may not like your open source views,
and perhaps with public money?
I'm not ready to say I trust the message,
but something to consider, calling someone
a spammer, or phisher is one way to reduce
the freedoms...
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:59 PM, rik goldman <rikgoldman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greets,
> I'm working on a project that I hope will become collaborative. I'd by end
> of July to have produced as an open and free document, an IT/ICT curriculum
> for grades 7-12 (US) that share the Raspberry Pi as a primary resource.
>
> The curriculum I have in mind will be standards-based, rely heavily on
> contructivist learning theory, and will encourage reading and writing across
> the curriculum. I specify July as a prospective deadline because adoption of
> the Common Core curriculum goes into effect 2013-2014 academic year.
>
> In addition to fed and district mandates, I have learning objectives from
> Linux+/LPI, Network+, Security+ and A+ in mind (only the non-proprietary
> learning objectives). I have to ground this essentially in the CIsco program
> schools in DC and MD have adopted and will make substitutions where
> appropriate.
>
> That doesn't even touch what the Raspi is intended to do, and that's where I
> need help. I'd like to infuse each year with software engineering objectives
> and hardware/electronic engineering objectives. I'm weak to worthless at
> both. I can see where they'd fit in, and could elaborate or clarify if I
> were asked.
>
> When essential part of the vision that I have articulated to Raspi
> Foundation and Cambridge (they both gave a nod of support) is the reliance
> on authentic assessment. Because the assessments are to be projects and
> tasks that serve a real-world purpose, I'm at a significant loss because of
> my lack of experience in programming and EE.
>
> I have setup a cluster of sites here:
> http://badsville.ignorelist.com/moodle.
>
> Feel free to browse (let it know you're a guest) or feel encouraged and
> welcome to create an account (top right of home page). Please spread the
> word to others who are a) possibly interested in discussing possible and
> realisitic projects b) collaborative writing and publishing or c) interested
> in a community of educators with an appetite for Raspi in the classroom.
>
> Thanks for reading through this. I appreciate your time and encourage you to
> spread the word.
>
> Rik Goldman
> Chelsea School
> Silver Spring
> rikgoldman at gmail.com
>
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