About Ubuntu - Education - Courses and the need to collect information
mainly for new Ubuntu users:
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
I just updated the related wiki page
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/Education/NL/Courses
with information I found.
Please feel free to complete and update the page.
jean7491
Ubuntu Belgium Events Team
On 12-09-10 08:46, Mattias Campe wrote:
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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