Ed Tech Day Ithaca College in NY

[Samuel Klein]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Karlie Robinson wrote:
>
>> Forgive the cross posting as this is sort of crossing over between an
>> Ambassador Event and an OLPC SIG item. I just got off the phone with EdTech
>> Day[1] organizers at Ithaca College and they will be giving me a speakers
>> slot in their program to talk about the XO - after all you can't get much
>> more edtech than that. I want the focus to be on what I know about -
>> obviously - Fedora/OLPC together in harmony and changing the world one line
>> of code at a time - specifically what's going on today at Fedora to propel
>> the OLPC Mission.  So most likely 4th grade math curriculum and the massive
>> amount of work being done regarding packages. More importantly, this is your
>> opportunity to fill me full of talking points. Of course I'm happy to wing
>> it, but I'd really love it if you could tell me more about what's important
>> to you.  If you were giving the talk, what should be said? ~Karlie
>>
>> [1] http://www.ithaca.edu/edtechday/
>
> Make sure that you have read "Disrupting Class", and then encourage
> attendees to think about how the principles therein -- disruptive
> technology, serving underserved markets like poor rural school districts,
> etc. -- dovetail with the unique value-adds provided by a Free Culture
> approach.
>
> Get people to think about the following problem: what if, instead of
> Addison-Wesley producing dozens of 4th grade math textbooks, a community of
> educators could get together to produce one single electronic 4th grade
> textbook?  Solving this problem unlocks a whole world.  Encourage people to
> think *deeply* about the ramifications of this.
>
> Man, I need to videotape the talk I gave at FOSDEM.

without seeing it, I'll second that.

SJ