Online Curriculum

A couple weeks ago, Ashleigh Rhodes had us thinking about using an online curriculum, particularly the generation of "Curriki." Curriki is an website for teachers to share their lesson plans on various subjects from math to literature, etc. Looking at the website, it seemed pretty cool. What struck me about it was that the lessons posted on the website weren't particularly tech heavy, so the lessons could be accomplished in schools without computers. I think this is one of its great strengths. In the forum, we discussed the costs of an online curriculum and came to the conclusion that with updates and repairs, it could be just as costly. On the other side, we thought that integration between textbooks and technology was a good plan. We also looked at the accuracy of things like Curriki and editing. It proved an interesting discussion considering our transition into the authoring project. Probably if anything, technology and education, particularly when it comes to authoring, proves that people need to be more critical about the things they find and what they take in. Technology does inspire a spirit of learning because there's so much information out there and people have to evaluate it and make it meaningful for themselves, at least that's the ideal. I do hope people go through their evaluation processes...but only time will tell.