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This is the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach's wiki noodlespace. It is here in order for the Science Academy design team to begin to understand how wikis might best be used in the service of our goals. It's not being used at the mo' but it will be soon.

Let's talk about goals. To my mind they include:


 * attempting a dynamic and forward looking program intended to address the growing crisis in K12 science education (perhaps this program might bleed over into other areas of K12 education, many of which are similarly challenged, though perhaps laden with less dramatically threatening consequences for the future of our children)


 * creating curricula that take advantage of the way today's and tomorrow's students 1) like to learn and 2) learn best.


 * tracking development for documentation and also to make sure technology is integral, not add-on after the fact


 * setting a model for curricular units of study at grades 9-12 that will remain both constant and flexible--constant in that it will be the "template" upon which all CSO SA classes are built, flexible in that when elements within the model change they will change for all current and future classes. This will require collaborative technologies that bring all faculty and staff into ongoing realtime communication (the first tool to explore in this effort is Groove Office)

To edit this space, simply click the edit tab. To add a new page you might try, um, "New Page!" Cheerio, and welcome!

Scott