Building Students 4 the 21st Century
Most of the blogs I read have covered the story in Time Magazine's December 18th issue. "How to Build a Student for the 21st Century." Even though I read it online, I bought a print copy of the magazine to keep and to remind me of the content of this article in the coming months.
Certainly there are not enough Web sites that have readable content for young children. Is this because teachers of early grades are not creating them? I was interested enough in the Curriki Wiki mentioned in this article to put it at the top of my list to explore tomorrow.
At this time of year, it is hard to find time when you are a teacher to even know that Time magazine featured this article as most teachers struggle with teaching, their own education, aging parents and young children on a daily basis. It's hard to be a citizen of the world when you sit in traffic, worry about overspending and are asleep on the couch at 9PM.
Certainly there are not enough Web sites that have readable content for young children. Is this because teachers of early grades are not creating them? I was interested enough in the Curriki Wiki mentioned in this article to put it at the top of my list to explore tomorrow.
At this time of year, it is hard to find time when you are a teacher to even know that Time magazine featured this article as most teachers struggle with teaching, their own education, aging parents and young children on a daily basis. It's hard to be a citizen of the world when you sit in traffic, worry about overspending and are asleep on the couch at 9PM.
2 Comments:
Recently renewed interest in online educational resources (and a bit-o-Googling) led me to your site. A former teacher and webDev hobbyist, I am curious...
I am watching for Curriki.org to go live with wikis and forums. Soon will be submitting content I have posted at edparadigm.com... I have even created a wiki to start some conversation about the space (what do we want, what do we need?). Would you be willing to join a wiki-conversation about education?
If you are curious, maybe you would visit Curriki Workshop, and share 2¢ about online curriculum development. What do you think should emerge from Curriki? BTW - XWiki is the wiki engine that Curriki is deploying, so by posting at Curriki Workshop, we can learn the wiki markup that will be in play once Curriki goes live.
Cheers.
By john, at 2:39 AM
Just a heads up to folks about what's happening over at Curriki. The site has been adding content and updating tools so that members can develop, publish, and access open source curricula. The new Curriki.org includes something called the Currikulum Builder - it's an editing tool that allows members to develop curriculum materials through a collaborative, wiki-based platform. Here's an interesting lesson that one educator created using the Currikulum Builder:
http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_rmlucas/Stoichiometry
There's lots of great stuff and the more the community uses it, the better it will be. If you haven't already, check it out.
www.curriki.org
By Bobbi Kurshan, at 1:25 PM
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