ATO2014: Open Source Schools: More Soup, Less Nuts
Charlie Reisinger works for Penn Manor school district and was our final talk tonight. Tablets are all the rage in schools these days and if we give them laptops we lock them down. And then we wonder why kids are so turned off of computing. Charlie shared with us the store of stone soup.
Last year they gave every one of their students a laptop powered with Linux and the program has been tremendously successful. In addition to the laptops they spun up a student help desk where the students could work together to unbox the laptops, label the, inventoried them, etc etc. They wrote a tool that is shared at: github.com/pennmanor/FLDT.
With this model they taught the students not just how to use the computers, but how to be part of the community.
See more in Charlie’s Ted Talk.
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