Promoting Open Source in Schools

Marc Lijour marc-bbkyySd1vPWsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org
Sun Dec 18 17:57:28 UTC 2005


On Saturday 17 December 2005 22:25, Igor Denisov wrote:
> > C is not in the trend today. People (students and teachers alike) want
> > graphics, games  and flashy things. One teacher is offering PHP, which is
> > a great idea you will agree.
>
> Maybe we should start with a "Change the CS Curriculum" manifesto :-)
> Or maybe the school boards should recognize other OSes and make
> classes for graphical design and the like all Mac-based (like they
> will likely be in colleges), make CS into real CS, with a base of C
> and C++ taught in a Linux environment (like U of T Engineering), and
> leave proprietary labware and the rest to Windows...
>
> Hmm, this is beginning to sound like the real world...

Why not?

Here a few links were advocacy can work:

1) http://wiki.acse.net/index.php/Main_Page
Computer Studies Educators are working on a curricular reform:

http://wiki.acse.net/index.php/Curriculum_Reform

2) http://www.ecoo.org/index.php

3) Ministry of education
check www.curriculum.org
 and http://www.ccpalo.org

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