FW: NOPE Curriculum and pedagogy resources for OLPC countries

[David Leeming]

To: nope

French Polynesia held its first consultation on One Laptop per Child this week, marking the 14th Pacific nation moving to introduce the XO laptop in their schools.

As countries develop their own approaches to working with ICT in the classroom, several have asked me what resources are available on curriculum development. One example is the materials developed by the Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs. MCEETYA have produced valuable curricula development and pedagogical guidance on introducing ICT in schools, documents which Pacific educators might consider adapting to their own needs in the absence of existing resources.

• The Statements of Learning for ICT is specifically for curriculum developers, and provides a description of knowledge, skills, understandings and capacities that all students should have the opportunity to learn, and identifying baseline essentials for all students to learn. There are statements for all subject areas but the ICT document is particularly useful.
  See  http://www.curriculum.edu.au/verve/_resources/StmntLearning_ICT_2008.pdf
• The Pedagogy Strategy – Learning in an online world focuses on ICT as an enabler of good pedagogy.
  See:  www.mceetya.edu.au/verve/_resources/pedagogy_strategy_file.pdf
• More resources can be found here:
  http://www.mceecdya.edu.au/mceecdya/default.asp?id=11582#Information%20and%20communications%20technologies

In Australia, many of these resources were developed under the last Howard government. Now the Rudd government is rolling out its "Digital Education Revolution" and is providing a welter of resources online for educators, meaning Pacific countries dealing with capacity constraints can leverage these and adapt them for use in a Pacific context. Here's an interesting place to start:

• http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/digital_rev/english/gettingstarted/index.htm

Kind regards

Michael


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