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Why Public Education Must Use Public Software
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| But the current state of the American public
| education system is no longer innovative. By
| now, many have realized that America no
| longer holds a monopoly on the math and
| sciences, and some question if we ever did.
| Other nations have been making such quick
| progress that a second Sputnik doesnât seem
| far-fetched in the near future.
|
| We canât risk falling behind on the math and
| sciences. According to Jefferson, âscience is
| important to the preservation of our
| republican government, and . . . also
| essential to its protection against foreign
| power.â Thankfully, our current President
| claims to be aware of our education systemâs
| troubles, but is awareness enough?
|
| [...]
|
| Public education is supposed to provide a
| model for its students. Freely available
| software for the public that anyone can use,
| learn from, modify, and send back to the
| system for improvement is certainly an ideal
| and practical model. Here is software that
| endorses cooperation and functions on peer
| review â software that promotes creativity
| and independent thought. Why subjugate the
| student to the black boxes of proprietary
| software when they can learn freely with
| free software?
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http://linuxbsdos.com/2009/10/11/why-public-education-must-use-public-software/
Recent:
Frances Pinter on the (Academic) Value of Sharing
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| So much of academic output is now available on the web, and when you talk to
| academics they are not 100 percent happy with how difficult it is becoming to
| find their works. They are looking for tools; a digital means of selecting,
| filtering, and ranking the materials they are using and recommending. We are
| actually in a period of transition where we are still relying on the old, but
| wanting to experiment with the new. People like myself who spend a lot of
| time with the open access crowd can kind of forget there are a lot of
| academics who arenât so vocal, who are primarily interested in producing
| their content, getting materials in front of their students, and getting
| their promotion and their recognition for work that they produce.
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http://www.good.is/post/frances-pinter-on-the-academic-value-of-sharing/
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