[plug] WA Govenment iPads for year 1 and 2 students

[Simon Wise]

On 09/02/12 22:58, Gavin Chester wrote:

> So, sorry to be mr negative, but you won't get anywhere with campaigns to change
> technology use and purchasing in schools :-( I despair that powerful people and
> parents have their heads too far up their proverbial to see the folly of their
> ways.

campaigns may get nowhere, or at least may not get very far ... but silence will 
certainly get nowhere, while in other parts of the world (perhaps less deeply 
committed to the private/corporate ideology which is almost ubiquitous here) 
education departments have apparently taken up open source very heavily.

I'm studying with 18 year olds ... looking around the lecture theatres the split 
is fairly even between Linux, mac and windows ... and many of the windows users 
are also a bit familiar with Linux. I'm told this is a huge change from only a 
few years ago. So at least those interested in computers and programming (and 
entering the computing field) have changed their habits  ... despite our 
schools, and our education departments, efforts to the contrary.


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> Gavin
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