Re: [fsf-community-team] Free Software in Education Re: Our approach

[Edward Cherlin]

Thank you. Adding this to the Sugar Labs education bibliography page...Added.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team/Education_Bibliographies

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 17:30, Simon Bridge <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 17:05 -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>> Let's talk about our approach to various sorts of issue. For example,
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/04/open_source_america_lobbies_government/
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> http://www.hbclinux.net.nz/blog/apa-article.pdf
> ... this is a lit-review I did as a term paper towards a Master of
> Education Degree - covers free software in education.
>
> I have a thesis proposal in the works for this area as several NZ
> secondary schools have adopted varying implementations of free and open
> source software... something that has been more of a community
> college/university thing so far.
>
> Curiously, NZ Universities faculties of education universally use mac
> software and distribute documentation using proprietary formats. This
> despite lip service given to solving digital divide issues and
> accessibility...
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