I came across this article about schools using free software. I am a big fan of this idea.
These are the big ideas that Richard Stallman are as follows:
*Save the Schools money
*School should teach students ways of life that will benefit society as a whole. They should promote the use of free software just as they promote recycling.
*Free software permits students to learn how software works. Students can learn a lot about programing as many of these free software programs are "open" which I understand allows for programming by many, including perhaps our students. With the world/web changing so fast, we want our kids to keep up in theis "flat" world.
*Schools that use free software will enable gifted programming students to advance.
*Teaching the students to use free software, and to participate in the free software community, is a hands-on civics lesson. It also teaches students the role model of public service rather than that of tycoons. All levels of school should use free software.
Big Ideas, cool stuff, mind expanding, thanks PLN
I can't wait for the school year to start to use the network. I think we are at a disadvantage in terms of seeing the posibilities of PLN without school being in session.
Thats all for now
Jasper
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Hey Jasper, what article and/ or software are you referring to here? Can you post a link?
ReplyDeleteIt was probably 1200 articles ago on google reader... there is a downside to tech. Usually I would paste a link, everything's been so blurry the last two weeks. Openoffice instead of Micosoft for example. There are free versions of excel, word, powerpoint, publisher, AVG free versus a costly antivirus software package
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