I sent my son to Hagley Community College for reasons other than this, but it was a pleasant surprise to find it on their website.
Miles has met the head computing honcho, and will hopefully have more contact to come. http://computing.hagley.school.nz/about/opensource "About the College of Computing Open Source Our belief is that at secondary level students should be learning the fundamental skills of what a computer is and how and when it is appropriate to use them. We feel it is also important that students learn to evaluate software (and hardware) based on its performance in real and practical situations and its availability to people. To this end we use software that has been released under an open license and is freely available to use, distribute and alter. Operating Systems In 2007 the College of Computing moved to a dual boot environment for all workstations consisting of Microsoft Windows XP and Linux Ubuntu to allow students to explore and evaluate these operating systems. The addition of Ubuntu opens up a range of teaching and learning opportunities and the open source nature of the operating system means students are able to install Ubuntu on their own machines without the concern of license fees. Applications The majority of software used during project work is open source for two key reasons: 1. Learning opportunities Students have often used proprietary software before and the use of open source introduces them to something new. They are asked to find solutions to both the project brief and the tools used which, we feel is closer to the realities of a small business in action. 2. License Costs Open source software has allowed us to provide tools for the students that they can continue to use when they leave school without the need to pay licensing costs. We want them to make decisions about the tools they use based on performance and not on price."
