[Tuxpaint-devel] UK National Curriculum (for 0.9.18 or 1.0)

[Caroline F. <car...@go...>]

I've had a quick look at the approval stuff for ICT support for the UK
national curriculum. (I'm not a teacher, I'm a former public sector
worker, but not in education).

I'm looking at this to see if we need some specific content or
documentation or a something to tap into the UK education software
market. 

http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk/default.htm

http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk/SupplierCentre/supplierwelcome.htm is
the guidelines on being a "supplier". Whether we could be a supplier,
whether it would be Tux4Kids, or whether it would be a downstream like
Edubuntu I don't know. 

I don't know who (if anyone) is interested in this but I'm doing to try
and compare tuxpaint to the national curriculum to see if there is
anything we are obviously missing, that could be implemented easily, say
with some extra stamps.

http://www.nc.uk.net/webdav/harmonise?Page/@id=6016

The plan would be both for the website (and we could do this for other
countries with national curricula) and as a plan of action for
additional content.

In UK education jargon we cover key stages 1 & 2. Key stage 1 is 5-7
years old (years 1 to 2), Key stage 2 is 7-11 (years 3-6). We also cover
pre-KS1 but I'm not sure what that's called and how regimented it is..

I think it would be pretty easy to point out how we fit in with this:
http://www.nc.uk.net/webdav/harmonise?Page/@id=6004&Subject/@id=3331
(ICT KS1&2 programme of study).

I'm pretty sure our stuff is considerably better than other programs out
there - I just think that schools don't know about it. The education
software I've seen has been dreadful. What do we do?

Caroline