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I am hoping to be back in the UK shortly, so if I can get a job in a school will try and get some influence into schools, I find kids far more open minded than the adults in schools, There is a place in schools for both OSS and closed source to work and complement each other, for example moodle sounds like it would be useful to provide work to kids absent from school (e.g due to illness) if they have a computer at home, they could download work sheets, etc, and do the work at home, and perhaps get someone to drop it in to the school, for marking, just because your too ill to attend school may not mean you can't do school work and for some kids they ,may want to, esp if they are in the upper tier, at primary and want to goto grammar, and therefore not fall behind, if we can educate parents, they can then ask schools why are you not using this software, as it would really help us, help our kids. paul Tom Brough wrote: >Aaron Trevena wrote: > > > >>http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/reclaiming_ICT_education_why_free_software_is_a_necessity_in_schools >> >>Back on topic.. read the above article about why it's such a problem. >>The most popular and useful software to schools, such as moodle, >>isn't available through the BECTA framework. >> >>A. >> >> >> >> >> >Thanks for the link > >I liked the ironic analysis that compared the "investigative" methods of >modern teaching now used on traditional subjects against the old fashion >"learn by route" methods used to teach (relatively new) ICT skills. How >did we get in this topsy-turvey state ? > >Its very sad to think how they could apoint someone with so much power >in BECTA who clearly understands so little about the open source / free >software model. Unfortunately the lines of demarcation between closed >source, open source and free software are blurred by the multiple types >of license that occur in the range between Microsoft and GNU. Perhaps we >need some sort of "kite" mark to distinguish them better like most >appliances these days have an energy efficiency rating, perhaps we >should do something similar (for example A rated = GNU license X rated = >closed source) > >Tom. > > > > -- http://www.zleap.net -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html