Uma iniciativa muito interessante, cujo objetivo é promover o ensino com
materiais livres.
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"Math hasn't changed since Isaac Newton," declares Scott McNealy. So
why, he asks, is California paying some $400 million annually to
"update" grade-school textbooks?
That's just one of the practices questioned by the Sun Microsystems
(nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) chairman. And one of the problems he
believes can be solved.
McNealy, who handed Sun's chief executive reins to Jonathan Schwartz
earlier this year, is now applying his know-how to steer the Global
Education and Learning Community (GELC). (...)
McNealy's vision is worldwide access to a free Web site for
kindergarten-to-12th graders (K-12). Beyond a mere Google (nasdaq: GOOG
- news - people ) search, the open-source site would allow content
creators to donate their own material. Think of online encyclopedia
Wikipedia -- but with dependable standards. (...)
Likewise, says McNealy, the GELC plan would allow K-12 classrooms to
instantly access the same approved online textbooks--instead of the
expensive products hawked by "a great salesperson talking to the PTA."
And his free-market background has also shaped McNealy's vision: Far
from a mere sidewalk charity, the GELC will also amass funding to enable
professors to create textbooks specifically for the Web site.
http://www.forbes.com/2006/08/04/sun-mcnealy-education-cx_gl_0804autofacescan02.html
https://edu-gelc.dev.java.net/nonav/index.html
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Nelson Corrêa de Toledo Ferraz
Segula Technologies (www.segula.fr)
Free Software Foundation Associate Member #3203
Sociedade Perl do Brasil (www.perl.org.br)
Rede Livre de Compartilhamento de Cultura Digital
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