Up at the top of the site you’ll now see a tab titled “CTD News.” This page provides continuously updated links to recent coverage of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. The page is powered by RSS feeds in delicious with the tags capetowndeclaration+news and capetowndeclaration+blog. When you find material online about the declaration, please tag it this way so that those resources will show up here. If I start seeing a lot of garbage in the feed I’ll change my approach.
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Via eSchoolNews comes the exciting news that Florida public schools have added a CC-licensed resource to their approved list of curricular materials:
Tired of investing in expensive textbooks and proprietary software programs, Florida education officials are looking to an open online-learning platform to teach young students basic reading skills… Florida has adopted FreeReading.net on its short list of K-3 supplemental reading programs that schools may use state instructional money to purchase for the 2008-09 school year. This is the first open instructional program to be approved through an official state adoption, officials said.
The story also covers the Cape Town Declaration and the “open education movement” briefly. Hooray for Florida!
It wasn’t a question of whether or not Stephen would criticize Cape Town, just a question of when he would. 
A response to several of his criticisms is in order. His final criticism is the crucial one, so I’ll start there first and then return to the beginning and work through the others:
Continue reading ‘Responding to Criticisms of Cape Town’
