EdIncubator" projects are designed to help education projects or initiatives build advisory councils with real educators, administrators, parents, and students giving real feedback. Current projects are below.
Groups interested in participating can contact Steve Hargadon directly.
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We are known as SITACT Incorporated and we operate out of Chicago. You can
find more about us at www.sitact.ent. We are into developing virtual
learning environments and course settings so that it becomes easy to set up
an online course for a teacher. A sample of what we do can be seen at
www.lms.sitact.net . Please use the guest login
and use "frankieuncle" as the guest access code. What you will see in here
is a simple course that describes the software, but this course can be
designed to teach diverse subject matter to students. If you feel the kind
of work we are doing will be useful for you, we will be glad to work with
you setting up such virtual courses for collaborative dissemination and consumption of knowledge. Even if you didn't like the work we do, please let us know if we can do anything else for you.
Regards,
Sanjib
sanjib@sitact.net
The University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Hospitals are in the middle of high poverty South side neighborhoods and could be much more active in helping tutor/mentor programs grow in more places. This technology can be used to connect volunteers and kids, and to help people find ideas for constantly improving what happens in their programs. The result can be more kids coming to school better prepared to learn, and more adults helping kids in poverty move to careers.
This is a neighborhood and youth centered strategy, rather than a school centered one. Kids in high school service learning and technology classes could be collecting this type of information, and creating maps, or writing blogs, to draw attention to it. In so doing their learn communications strategies, and leadership habits.