A fun activity that I've used at the middle school level to teach the open source principles of collaboration and transparency is Candy or Swag: https://opensource.com/education/16/6/candy-or-swag-game-teaching-open-source-kids
HTH, Gina ----- Gina Likins University Outreach, Open Source and Standards Red Hat 100 E. Davie St.; Raleigh, NC 27601 [email protected] (919)890-8322 or internally 48322 ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Heidi Ellis" <[email protected]> > To: "Discussions about Teaching Open Source" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 3:44:11 PM > Subject: Re: [TOS] STEM education in K-12 with Open Source focus > Welcome Daniel! > I'm not sure how many of the TOS community are looking at K-12 education. I > can point you to some learning materials. This is a listing of learning > activities: > http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Category:Learning_Activity > You might want to look at the activities for CS Principles, CS1 and CS2. > There are other activities that are aimed at a more introductory audience. > I might also suggest contacting Rick Weinberg (@rickweinberg) and Francis Ann > Squire (@FASquire) on Twitter as they both teach at the K-12 level and have > some wonderful ideas for learning. Heidi Ellis > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Daniel Henry < [email protected] > wrote: > > Hello all, > > > I'm new to the education sector, and now in a Director of Technology role > > in > > a small K-12 charter public school. > > > I see that your website has material for the undergrad and graduate level, > > and I'm curious if your community has addressed how K-12 schools can > > incorporate FOSS into their curriculum. I'm interested in establishing > > classes for our students in a variety of technology disciplines, to include > > everything from understanding hardware (taking apart old PCs, littlebits), > > robotics (beebot, Lego) to coding (Scratch, etc.). > > > I can imagine how open source concepts could be introduced into these > > classes, but I'm looking to share ideas. > > > Thanks, > > > -- > > > Daniel Henry > > > Director of Technology > > > Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans > > > 504.620.5500 || www.lfno.org > > > The information contained in this email is confidential and is intended > > only > > for the use of the individual(s) named above or ‘copied’ below. If you are > > not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > > distribution or copying of this document is strictly prohibited. If you > > have > > received this document in error, please immediately destroy the received > > email document in its entirety and notify the sender. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > tos mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
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