[TOS] STEM education in K-12 with Open Source focus

Tue Sep 20 23:14:26 UTC 2016

Hi Daniel-

Our students use open source software every day. Penn Manor’s entire K-12 student laptop fleet runs Linux and open source software exclusively. And our district has replaced the majority of our infrastructure with FLOSS alternatives to proprietary school systems. Red Hat produced a lovely documentary about our program: https://www.redhat.com/en/open-source-stories/penn-manor.

You may be interested in our Student Help Desk Blog; the articles are all student generated: http://blogs.pennmanor.net/1to1/.

I’d be happy to exchange more ideas.

Charlie

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From: tos <tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org> on behalf of Gina Likins <glikins at redhat.com>
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Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 5:19 PM
To: Discussions about Teaching Open Source <tos at teachingopensource.org>
Subject: Re: [TOS] STEM education in K-12 with Open Source focus

A fun activity that I've used at the middle school level to teach the open source principles of collaboration and transparency is Candy or Swag: https://opensource.com/education/16/6/candy-or-swag-game-teaching-open-source-kids

HTH,

Gina

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From: "Heidi Ellis" <heidijcellis at gmail.com>
To: "Discussions about Teaching Open Source" <tos at teachingopensource.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 3:44:11 PM
Subject: Re: [TOS] STEM education in K-12 with Open Source focus

Welcome Daniel!

I'm not sure how many of the TOS community are looking at K-12 education. I can point you to some learning materials. This is a listing of learning activities:

http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Category:Learning_Activity

You might want to look at the activities for CS Principles, CS1 and CS2. There are other activities that are aimed at a more introductory audience.

I might also suggest contacting Rick Weinberg (@rickweinberg) and Francis Ann Squire (@FASquire)  on Twitter as they both teach at the K-12 level and have some wonderful ideas for learning.
Heidi Ellis

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Daniel Henry <dhenry at lfno.org<mailto:dhenry at lfno.org>> wrote:
Hello all,
I'm new to the education sector, and now in a Director of Technology role in a small K-12 charter public school.

I see that your website has material for the undergrad and graduate level, and I'm curious if your community has addressed how K-12 schools can incorporate FOSS into their curriculum.  I'm interested in establishing classes for our students in a variety of technology disciplines, to include everything from understanding hardware (taking apart old PCs, littlebits), robotics (beebot, Lego) to coding (Scratch, etc.).

I can imagine how open source concepts could be introduced into these classes, but I'm looking to share ideas.

Thanks,

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