HIGH SCHOOL CIVICS

Andrew Pass, an independent educational consultant working to build the bridge between curricular content and technology, will be contributing a High School Civics unit for Curriki.

Andrew, a teacher for 20 years, has completed advanced doctoral work in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy at Michigan State University. Andrew’s work for Curriki will be posted as it progresses, and will be fully complete by the end of 2007. Check out his blog.

GEOMAPPING AMERICA'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Students from many disciplines studying at the Escuela de Graduados en Administración Pública y Política Pública (EGAP) del Tecnológico de Monterrey, have planned a project called “Geomapping in America’s Elementary Schools” which will serve as software for One Laptop Per Child’s XO project.

The project involves creating an interactive map of the Americas with geographical and sociological information that would help teachers in social science courses for children between 9 and 10 years old. The map will consist of two layers, one with graphical content and the other with language. Thus although the project will be in Spanish it can be easily adapted to other languages. Awardees include Fernando Rojas Sanchez, Dante Sanchez, Hector GHF, Nestor Guerrero, and Ricardo Martinez.

A warm congratulations to all winners!

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Curriki is accepting applications for projects that will make a difference to students and teachers everywhere. We may help fund your curriculum initiative to be built using the Curriki platform and distributed globally via our website.

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