IAE-Pedia
Wednesday, August 29th by carla
Dr. David Moursund of the University of Oregon has launched the nonprofit Information Age Education. He writes:
Its major current activities are embedded in the IAE-pedia, (Information Age Education-pedia) that is patterned after the Wikipedia, but aimed just at supporting and improving teaching and learning. Access at http://iae-pedia.org/.
The IAE-pedia currently has three main components:
- Articles aimed at preservice and inservice teachers, teachers of teachers, parents, and other educators. Part of the initial focus in this area is to focus on what it means to empower students and their teachers, and how to better empower them. For me, an important part of empowerment is providing tools and instruction in use of the tools that increase their
expertise in posing and solving hard problems. (For those of you who teach preservice and preservice teachers, a good team term project is to have a team write an article and post it to the IAE-pedia.)- Digital filing cabinets. Imagine a preservice or inservice teacher receiving electronic copies of the types of material that experience teachers have stored in their filing cabinets. Imagine a teacher of teachers receiving the same thing, but also the types of materials that teachers of teachers have stored in their filing cabinets. This is a huge project that needs lots of volunteers who will contribute some of their materials and help in editing the materials. If you have good materials you want to contribute, please contact me. These materials need not be just about computers in education. Rather, consider anything that contributes to children getting a modern, Information Age Education.
- The computer in education Pioneers project. The goal is to identify the pioneers and tell their stories. I am particularly interested in personal stories written by people who know some of the pioneers and/or who are some of the pioneers.
Moursund adds that volunteers are welcome, including those who work in languages other than English.
