[K12OSN] Making K12LTSP "school friendly"

[Sharon Betts]

"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Monday, February 07, 2005 at 7:22 PM +0000 wrote:
>And more ironic thing is that I have tried to get around the need for
>specific
>software by asking teachers/admins to document the computer skills the are
>attempting to teach the kids at each grade level, but come to find out no
>one
>knows what they are trying to teach, just that they have a curriculum with
>lesson plans setup by someone else and they just teach what they have.

I look at technology as the tool to curriculum and differentiation.  My
question to the teachers would be what are you trying to teach the
students by using this software?  Then if it is necessary to the
curriculum, we work out a way to get it to work (or find a substitute) and
make certain the students have the technology skills necessary to use it.

Sharon 
MSAD#71 Director of Educational Technology
sbetts at msad71.net          http://www.msad71.net     207-985-1100
"To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so."    
Robert Orben