<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Great stuff! Thanks for the link, Sabbu. I need more time to explore this, but it looks very much like the old frontier one-room schools in the USA. <div>Actually, there are still a lot of them in places like rural Montana. A lot of great people came out of this type of school with wonderful educations, so </div><div>we know it can work. I wonder how the XO and Sugar could best be integrated into this.</div><div><br></div><div>I would love to see a sample of the "School in a Box"</div><div><br></div><div>Caryl<br><br>> From: kksubbu.ml@gmail.com<br>> To: yamaplos@gmail.com<br>> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:23:26 +0530<br>> CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher<br>> <br>> On Monday 01 Nov 2010 9:43:28 am Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:<br>> > Are y'all familiar with the RIVER Project? (Rishi Valley Institute for <br>> > Educational Resources)<br>> > their website doesn't do quite justice on how concepts like this <br>> > multi-age social-based mentoring that is being shared have in a most <br>> > appropriate approach to education in poor areas.<br>> > <br>> > http://www.river-rv.org/<br>> Thank you for this link. It is good to know of other efforts towards <br>> educational reforms. MGML is already in place for grades 1-3 in all public <br>> schools in my state and is being expanded to higher grades every year.<br>> <br>> MGML is a problem only in curricular-driven environments. This is how children <br>> learn, say, in homes or in playground. Grouping happens naturally by level of <br>> competence and interest rather than by age.<br>> <br>> Previous efforts that I tracked did not close the loop. That is, they would <br>> train teachers and expect changes to happen but did not verify if learning <br>> actually happened. No method works for every child. That is why Sikshana <br>> decided to work backwards - ensure every child is able to learn and keep <br>> learning and support teachers to use their own masala (mix) of methods.<br>> <br>> Subbu<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep<br></div> </body> </html>