Re: BYOD in schools

2014-12-01 Thread Gabor Szabo
Thank all of you for the responses. Only about 60% of the parents have supported the project and for now it has been cancelled. regards Gabor ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: BYOD in schools

2014-11-25 Thread sara fink
Gabor, it's worse than that. I don't know what programs they want to install, but I heard a talk on reshet bet few days ago (program of keren noibach). First, they mentioned that it's not legal to ask the parents to buy notebooks/tablets etc due to discrimination. There are parents who can't

BYOD in schools

2014-11-19 Thread Gabor Szabo
In our school the management is trying to implement BYOD = Bring Your Own Device Some details here: http://schooly.co.il/rabin-modiin/page.asp?page_parent=105646 First they talked about tablets but now it seems they talk about making us buy notebooks. Among many other issues, please note the

Re: BYOD in schools

2014-11-19 Thread Mord Behar
I don't know about students, but my mother is a teacher and she has to use some legacy software that was written for Windows XP and fails on Win 7 about 70% of the time. It's proprietary software written by the ministry for education and could not be easily ported to Linux. On Wed, Nov 19, 2014