Hello all, I find this type of initiative very interesting, I'd like to have some similar educational project when I was in school.
I think the software approach commented by Jonas could be more affordable, in terms of management, and more cheap too. Said that, the idea of a kit to hack is really attractive. Perhaps it could be interesting to propose it as course in schools or online (like on Coursera or a similar site). Best regards, On 11/25/2016 02:53 PM, Jonas Forsslund wrote: > Hi, Matthias, > > In general I like these kinds of ideas. The whole Raspberry Pi concept > is well developed. > What I have been thinking recently however, is that there is perhaps > an overfocus on hardware. > Imagine instead a virtual small computer easily accessed and > programmed from a within > a web browser. It could visualize the memory, step-by-step debugging > could be very > straight-forward etc. I would even use it myself to "once and for all" > understand some > cs concepts i'm still unsure about or know in theory but have not > "seen". Maybe > such projects are available but I am not aware of any (please tell if > you do know). > A similar but more advanced projects is the nand2tetris.org > <http://nand2tetris.org> course that I would like to persue at some point. > > Some obvious benefits of a software solution include no distribution > issue, environmental concerns, > upgrades and not to mention zero duplication costs. > > With this said, if having your own small hardware computer gets the > kids going, that should > of course be great to support for fsfe I think. > > Best regads > Jonas Forsslund > Sweden > > 2016-11-25 14:32 GMT+01:00 Matthias Kirschner <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > I'd like to get some feedback about some ideas floating around my head > at the moment, and thought that some of you might be able to help > here. > > I was talking with some people who would like to fund some > concrete Free > Software activities, focusing on research and education. > > One idea which came up is to support pupils to learn more about how > computer work, and promote hacking by providing "science packs" with > small hackable computers, and some modules, sensors etc. > > What do you think about making it easier for pupils to get access to > such tools. E.g. by having some packs in the libraries or for school > projects? > > I would be interested what you think about that, as I am not yet sure > about it. > > If you like it, do you have an idea how you could make sure that > children who are interested in that are connected around Europe? (E.g. > in Germany there is something called "Jugend hackt" -- youth is > hacking > -- Is there something similar on a EU level? Or are there other > ideas?) > > Thanks for your feedback, > Matthias > > -- > Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe > Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 > <tel:%2B49-30-27595290> > Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join > <http://fsfe.org/join>) > Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner > <http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner>) - Weblog (k7r.eu/blog.html > <http://k7r.eu/blog.html>) > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion > <https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion -- Roger Sicart Rams
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