This is where it started...a simple question. How can we help improve our world?
Kids all over the world want to learn, yet some have no access to schools, technology, or teachers. We are in a privileged society, with more technology than we often know what to do with. How can we connect kids that want to learn with free educational resources and provide them with teachers and technology?
A team working together is the answer to that question. Here are two of our inspirations and collaborating partners.
Oceans Project - A non-profit organization devoted to fundraising to put technology in schools in developing nations and raising awareness about the importance of science education in schools.
Kaya - A non-profit organization finding schools in developing areas and providing them with teachers.
So how can students at Coppell High School help?
We are creating educational materials for the iPads in those schools, or for anyone else who wants to download our work. We are collaborating with schools in New Zealand, Kentucky, and Minnesota to make the best possible products. Students are working together to create resources to teach the world.
The Project:
A collaboration, involving around 200 students from four different locations, creating an interactive textbook using iBooks Author, inspired by the work of E. O. Wilson's Life on Earth, will inspire our young student audience to read, be healthy, and interact with peers around the world. Special thanks to Tricia, Geoff, and Amanda for connecting your classrooms with us and helping create this product!
The iBook will not only be published to the iBook Store, but will be linked in the iTunes U course that my students created last year, Health Without Borders. This course currently has an audience of around 45,000 subscribers around the world.
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| Thank you Coppell Education Foundation for providing us with this awesome new iMac station to create our iBook on. |
What a fabulous collaboration!
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