User:Vtaylor/IAEP 4 UR school

Summary

The Table of Contents looks backwards, but this guide is for educators who must work with the current state of education and the infrastructure in place while promoting and adopting the ideal of It's An Education Project (IAEP) - formerly known as One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).

There are programming classes and activities associated Science and Technology programs in local public and charter schools. This is the optimum entry point for introducing the technologies and working toward general acceptance of the big ideas that need more extensive hardware and software commitments as well as teacher training and support.


 * Summary


 * Teaching and Learning - IAEP and how to get it, why it is important for U.S. schools, adoption options, teacher training, roadblocks and speed bumps - personalized learning, collaboration, global / flat world thinking and necessary life-skills - communication, literacies (reading, math, media), trickle-up involving other family members
 * Activities - Science and Math - start here - already developed, just run and explore
 * Activities - Programming - introduction with graphical interface, drag and drop, basic concepts and constructs, immediate friendly results, tinkering, step-wise refinement
 * Sugar, Linux, hardware, oh my... - new environment, more complexity, more unknowns, software versions, upgrades
 * XO - the Green Machine - very cool, not readily available in US, viewed as "toy" - not mainstream (too much new information for teachers, support, administrators)
 * To infinity and beyond - what is important, why, other ways to provide learning the IAEP experience within the constraints of the now-current education system

maybe - publish as a booki