Hi Daniel- Our students use open source software every day. Penn Manor’s entire K-12 student laptop fleet runs Linux and open source software exclusively. And our district has replaced the majority of our infrastructure with FLOSS alternatives to proprietary school systems. Red Hat produced a lovely documentary about our program: https://www.redhat.com/en/open-source-stories/penn-manor.
You may be interested in our Student Help Desk Blog; the articles are all student generated: http://blogs.pennmanor.net/1to1/. I’d be happy to exchange more ideas. Charlie -- Charlie Reisinger Technology Director Penn Manor School District 2950 Charlestown Road Lancaster Pennsylvania 17603 technology.pennmanor.net 717.872.9500 x2226 @charlie3 From: tos <[email protected]> on behalf of Gina Likins <[email protected]> Reply-To: Discussions about Teaching Open Source <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 5:19 PM To: Discussions about Teaching Open Source <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TOS] STEM education in K-12 with Open Source focus 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 ________________________________ 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]<mailto:[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, -- [http://www.lfno.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Seal-small.png]Daniel Henry Director of Technology Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans 504.620.5500<tel:504.620.5500> || www.lfno.org<http://www.lfno.org> [http://www.lfno.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/FB-icon-e1468952921485.png]<https://www.facebook.com/lyceefrancaisnola> [http://www.lfno.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/YouTube-icon-e1468952946374.png] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIlPOn-FqaK-ykZ0ObtQiDg> [http://www.lfno.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Twitter-icon-e1468952935475.png] <https://twitter.com/lyceefrancaisno> 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]<mailto:[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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