Op 09-09-10 22:51, jean7491 schreef:
d. Ubuntu and Education
A lot of things are related to Education: contacts with PCVO's a.o.,
promotion in schools, "buurthuizen", what can we propose to schools ?,
“ICTpraktijkdag” - Hasselt in November, ... And not everybody has
teacher skill.
I'm supposed to have a teacher skill, as I'm a teacher :-) (of
informatics and maths). Awareness of Linux is important, especially in
education. I don't teach thát long (sth. like 7 years), but I already
see a shift that nicely follows the market share: a lot more use Mac
then it used to be, some already know about Linux and even one's father
uses Linux at home (so that's the 1 out of 100).
We need an “Education-team” with teachers (and others) to help
promotion (content and how to?): there are a lot of readers of the
mailing list who are education related. Someone should take initiative
to start a discussion group - Just do it! mazzimo21 will contact a
teacher at TIKB Houthalen.
Although I'm very much interested in Linux and education, I really don't
have the time to take initiative (building a house, second baby on it's
way,...). But if somebody will start it, I'm going to be a spectator for
sure (just like I am with this mailinglist).
What I already do is:
* Awareness: if we our talking about software, then I split up
between regular applications and operating software.
* We have the study area 'Informaticabeheer' with 11 lessons a week
about things related to IT. I teach 5 of those lessons. I have
setup an LTSP setup with Ubuntu. If we only need internet and a
text writer eg., then it's just fine. But the course uses Windows
7 and then the pupils can use VirtualBox to install and configure
Windows 7 by themselves. The LTSP-setup works fine, but when they
start to use Windows 7 inside VirtualBox, then a network
bottleneck appears. We are using a 10/100 switch and the system
monitor shows an downlink of 11,8 MiB/s. So I will need a switch
with at least one gigabit link, but for the moment there is no
budget (if somebody would have one in spare... :-) ).
* Maintaining a list of schools already using Linux, just to see
"who dunnit":
http://nl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Systeembeheer/Linux-scholen
What I don't believe in at all, is making a total switch to Linux in the
study areay 'Informaticabeheer'. It's true that our education system is
(much) too focused on Microsoft, but by making a total switch to Linux,
it's too focused again. If my LTSP+VirtualBox setup is going to work:
then it's going to be just fine for me.
Additionally, but not main task for the Education team, we should gather
information about the existing Linux/Ubuntu courses. Organizations with
such courses could be added to the link page (see above).
I've once started such a list for OOo, but it wasn't much of a success:
http://nl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Portaal:OpenOffice.org/OOo-opleidingen
Greetings
Mattias
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