Am Freitag, 4. M�rz 2005 08:43 schrieb Knut Yrvin: > The main problem is that the teachers don't give an real answer what > they want or expect from an applications when we aks them. A lot of > activeties is therefore reorganised to learn the teacher how to make > choices when looking for applications as a part of their teaching.
Hi Knut :) as a teacher I have to declare my point of view, here. I understand the wish for clarity, for having a "round and sound" product, with a finished menu of applications, not to confuse the pupils. I agree that an overload of supplied software might shrink the value of usage, somehow. But from a phenomenological view to education, I appreciate the variation which is there with free software: The pupil will understand the essence of a word processor by variating the application and detecting the invariate. Likewise they will learn that the idea of a window manager / desktop system is exactly in what gnome, icewm and kde have in common. Furthermore, I believe hat kids of today are much more used to cope with a multiplicity of options that most of us teachers. Hence I'd focus on - space issues (what minor important package can be removed)? - promoting of new packages / packaging (e.g. unignuplot) Raising "one app per task" to a maxime seems rather contraproductive to me. We have to consider that _using_ Skolelinux at the same time is _evaluating_ its advantages. By cutting off this and that from the very beginning we prevent teachers from knowing software that otherwise could become a "killer application" one day. Regards Ralf.
