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The Argument For F/OSS In Schools

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the teaching-freedom dept.

pfaffman sends us word of a two-part article in LinuxInsider that lays out to an audience of non-tech educators a cogent argument for using F/OSS in schools. The piece was written by a University of Tennessee professor for the education journal TechTrends. It makes the case that proprietary software is inconvenient and that when schools choose to use proprietary products they spend their constituents' money. The article won't contain a whole lot of surprises for Linux initiates (save perhaps some software recommendations for educational use), but it's interesting to see these ideas presented so clearly to a wider, and influential, audience."

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  1. The blackboard pic by GFree · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why does the "Education" icon contain an incorrect equation? Are the Slashdot editors so bad they'll screw up a simple addition as well as their stories? Or are they simply representing the state of the US Public Schooling System?

  2. Summary needs to be more specific by r_jensen11 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know I'm going to be modded troll here or off-topic, but terms like 'Schools' are extremely vague. For the purposes of this article, which I refuse to read because I am to lax, what type of schools are we looking at here? K-12? Elementary? Secondary? Post-Secondary?