School using Linux

[Leo J Mauler]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:32:49 -0500 Bryan Richard <bryan at booknerd.net>
writes:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 04:20:10AM -0600, Leo J Mauler wrote:
> > I wish I could walk into some local K-12 
> > classroom using Linux and observe what 
> > they are doing with Linux in the classroom.  
> > I'd like to get into this area of Linux 
> > administration.
> > 
> > I might even drive as far as St. Louis to see 
> > such a classroom, or Wichita, KS in the 
> > other direction, or even the same distance 
> > south (even as far as Tulsa, OK).
> 
> I can tell you what the kids do with it. My son 
> went to a rather progressive private school last 
> year and several of us dads were geeks (one 
> was the co-author of the early O'Reilly 
> "Annoyances" books) and we tossed a couple 
> of Linux machines in with the Macs and 
> Windows boxen. 
> 
> They quickly found the games and played 
> FreeCiv. ;-)

Well, yes, we know what kids do with Linux boxes on their own.  :)  My
nephew found "TuxRacer" pretty darn quickly.

I'd like to see a classroom situation, though, where some teacher was
teaching the class and the students were following along or working on
essays and suchlike using their Linux-powered computers.

After all, in my entire K-12 period, most of it was dominated by Apple ][
(thats II for younger people) computers, with a brand new IBM PC in high
school (2400baud modem! we too used it to go online and play "Tradewars")
and a computer lab housing eight beige box Macintoshes (Go MacPascal!). 
I've never been in a K-12 classroom where there was a computer on every
desk.

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