[Edu-sig] Excited about Crunchy Frog

[francois schnell]

On 02/08/06, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> In contrast, the way the public schools were historically imprisoned
> is becoming more and more evident:  a few big states, like California,
> would use their standards-making powers to serve the interests of big
> publishing, and steamroll the rest of us into docile compliance.


There is something original happening in France concerning math manuals for
K12.

There is a math teachers association (with 20000 people on their mailing
list) which collaborative produce free digital educational contents done by
math teachers.

Lately they produced the first math manual (for 12 years age) which is
completely "Open Source" (Free Document Licence) and done collaboratively by
teachers.
http://manuel.sesamath.net/

Schools can now also buy the published paper version if they want to. It's
the first time these main publishers are in direct competition with the math
teachers based on "Open source" manuals. It will be interesting to see how
many schools will adopt the manual and how the big publishers will react.

francois
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