Re: [school-discuss] Education Week: "Schools Combine Netbooks, Open Source"

[Les R <openadmin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bill

Yes, this is "Part" of a solution.  However, it's just the easy part.

The staff training and curricula to develop/use is the harder part
(and multi-year).


However, every journey begins with the first step.

Les Richardson
Open Admin for Schools
SK, Canada




On 15 October 2010 22:50, Bill Kendrick <nbs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Just saw this article via Google News (alert for "Tux Paint" ;) )
>
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> Education Week's Digital Directions: Schools Combine Netbooks, Open Source
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> http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/10/20/01netbookopen.h04.html
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>  The marriage of netbooks and open source has given schools the power to create and expand 1-to-1 computing
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>  By Patricia Mohr
>  Oct 15th (online), Oct 20th (print)
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>  Thanks to the relatively simultaneous development of smaller and
>  cheaper laptops and advances in open-source computing, schools that
>  could not afford 1-to-1 computing programs a few years ago are finding
>  ways to adopt them today. As they do, teachers are relaying the
>  message to students that their learning environments are becoming more
>  mobile, virtual, and interactive than ever before.
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>  "This year is different than any year in the past," Chris Scott, a
>  history and technology teacher at Santa Ynez School, a public school
>  serving students in grades 2-8 in Santa Ynez, Calif., says he told his
>  students on the first day of class. The 222-student school, now
>  wireless, gave every student in grades 6-8 a netbook computer to use
>  in language arts, history, science, and math classes.
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>  ...
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
> --
> -bill!
> Sent from my computer
>