One Laptop Per Child/South Carolina is a statewide partnership between the South Carolina Department of Education and the non-profit Palmetto Project.

More information at:  http://laptopsc.org/

Transforming Learners ....are generally highly motivated, passionate, often persistent even in the face of failure, and highly comitted learners. They most often:

* place great importance on learning ability, committed effort, independence, vision, and intrinsic resources.
* use personal strengths, ability, persistence, challenging strategies, high-standards, learning efficacy, and positive expectations to self-direct learning successfully.
* lose motivation and may become frustrated or resistant in environments or conditions that mismatch their aggressive learning needs.

More information at: http://training.trainingplace.com/loq/pop_trans1.htm

Successful Learning Strategies at: http://www.trainingplace.com/loq/strategies.htm

Open source curriculum (OSC) is an online instructional resource that can be freely used, distributed and modified. OSC is based on the open source practice of creating products or software that opens up access to source materials or codes. Applied to education,
this process invites feedback and participation from developers,
educators, government officials, students and parents and empowers them
to exchange ideas, improve best practices and create world-class
curricula. These “development” communities can form ad-hoc, within the
same subject area or around a common student need, and allow for a
variety of editing and workflow structures.

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