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Re: [LUG] FLOSS in schools redux.

 

> The latest government edict is that the curriculum should be taught in a 
> more holistic way in the form of themes which include cross-curricular 
> topics (ie. a scheme of work which covers colouring in shapes counts for 
> both maths and art tickboxes). With this in mind, a lot of schools are now 
> reviewing their current approach and looking at developing a whole new 
> one. There are commercial companies supplying this market with 
> shrink-wrapped material (for about £8-9000, as I understand) but my school 
> at least is looking at building their own from scratch.
>   
I think I can see some usefulness in this,  for example

if you were studying metabolism,  then you could use different subjects 
to collect, record and presetn data

Science, or PHSE use to predict what will happen to heart rate during 
exercise
PE collect the data
Maths / IT,  look at data, and create graphs etc
English, write the data up,
IT sort / manipulate data on computer and create charts etc.
Science or PHSE discuss conclusions and present data to the class, 

This is where your wiki and learning platforms come in,  you split the 
class into groups, of equal boys / girls,  in each group,  they go away 
with this tasks,  and come back with the results.   If children enjoy 
science, but not PE as much,  then the need to do the PE lesson to get 
the results,  it becomes part of the lesson, and rather than just being 
PE, its data collection so has an additional purpose to it.   Its also 
where schools can share the data,  and perhaps as a follow up,  get the 
kids in different schools to compare the data,  for example a school in 
a rural area, to say central London or Manchester,  collaboration, team 
work skills are also developed at the same time.

notice I am using science and PHSE lessons to set the tasks and get 
feedback to the class,  of course this would work if the lessons were in 
the right order,

I am not a teacher,  this is how I interpret this approach.

Paul

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