Praxis Makes Perfect

Ok, so in the previous post I critiqued the problem of thinking about networks and technology in general terms. Here is an example of thinking about networks in a more focused, and I think more helpful way. Check out this link:

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I came across this post from Weblogg-ed today, and spurred some thinking I’ve been doing about “networks”. There has been a lot of punditry these days where various folks tout the rise of networks and the power of technologies which connect people. The intuitive thought is that the Internet, mobile communications, and applications like Facebook etc etc etc create networks of people in ways that we’ve never seen before. I think this point is true, but not as provocative as some would make it seem. Here are some of my quick thoughts on social networks:

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HippCampus: http://hippocampus.org/?loc=interstitialskip

This one is not really an open source project, but a free resource for curricular materals. They invite academic institutions and publishers to contribute.

A friend pointed me to this link the other day and it got me very excited. It is an open-source hub for early literacy curriculum. We definitely need more of this kind of open curriculum, sharing, and dissemination that is built by the collective wisdom of teachers everywhere. IMO, one enhancement of any open-source project would be to explicitly show how various curricular activities help to address particular state standards.

Are there other good examples in other subject areas? Please send them my way, I’d love to build a directory to point others to.

Here’s the link: http://free-reading.net/index.php?title=Main_Page

Here’s a post from Ray Schroeder’s Educational Technology blog: http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/2007/11/free-online-materials-could-save.html

And another story done by USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2007-11-06-freereading_N.htm