The Education Connection Project

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Content Development & Activities

Approach: The WHYY Education Connection has developed over the past four years 8 actvities that teachers can use to get their students started using their computers at home while learning standards-based mathematics and science concepts. But as soon as students and teachers feel comfortable, the project asks the classrooms to participate in a statewide activity coordinated by the Delaware Law Related Education Center where students are asked to research a public policy topic using their home-based technology in order to make recommendations to their state legislature during a student summit. In the future, the project will begin to develop new instructional tools in collaboration with the WHYY Public television news broadcast in order to better involve the parents in local policy decision issues.

Partners: Math and Science Educational Resource Center, The Electric Schoolhouse, The Delaware Law Related Education Center, The University of Delaware Internship Program.

Standards-based Activities: This year, the Math & Science Center will be working with the teachers to finish up the 8 lessons. In addition, they will be adding an assessment component as requested by the National Education Connection Partners as well as a method for teachers to adapt their own standards-based educational activities to this project's technology.

This coming year the Education Connection Project will be participating in the following standards-based activities:

The Education Connection will be developing its own experimental online content in collaboration with the Delaware Law Related Education Center and the State of Delaware as part of a student summit last year.

Suggestions & Questions: The Education Connection gives some of its teachers' stipends to develop and test activities that everyone can use as part of the project. Furthermore, because it is associated with the schools, the activities must match the state standards? Do you have anyone capable of developing activities that would take advantage of the home-based technologies? Is there a cost associated with this?

Timeline Content Development & Activities
Before June	Meet with teachers to discuss potential activities Research potential activities for the coming year
June-August	Develop activities for the year
August	Meet with teachers to go over plan
Sept/October	First student activity
April	Student Policy Summit Activity

Page last updated on 08/13/00

Send comments to the Education Connection Project Director, Jay Cohen

Table of Contents

Title Page

About the project

Low-Cost Home Technology

Workforce Dev. Technology Support

Standards-Based Content
   Content Dev. & Activities
   Teacher Collaboration
   Classroom Presentation Facilities
   Family Outreach Activities

Administration & Partnership

Project Links
   Calendar (in development)
   Tech-Support (in development)
   National Project
   Project Materials (in development)
   Student Pages (in development)