[wplug] Teaching 9th-12th High School students about Linux

[John Lewis]

I am in, which means both WPLUG and Hack Pittsburgh has some interest. I
will forward this email to their mailing list to see if anyone else over
there wants to get in on this, because a couple of us wants to start
teaching some Raspberry Pi stuff. In fact I was just got finished making
a network cable for my B+.

This touches me especially, because I was introduced to Linux's
existence in High School in the first place.

I have some issues with your curriculum. First of all you are not even
going to cover GNU, even though it is the userland of the whole system,
the system they are using. Not teaching that would leave a typical
government school gap in knowledge.

I would also want to be more practical and tech the students about ssh
and web services before teaching them about particular services like
Wikipedia and Google Drive.

Sorry, Dave I am not going to reply to you privately because there is
nothing scheduled for April yet.


On 03/07/2015 08:48 PM, Dave Sevick wrote:
> Dear WPLUG list,
>
> The idea is to inspire and motivate young students about the entire Linux movement.
>
> Computer Reach is working toward a long term contract to teach high schools about Linux (not final yet).  It will be framed in the context of a "game changing worldwide computer platform, designed for everyone, based on open standards and free software".  We have a proposed course of study that includes experts in their specific field to come in as guest instructors.
>
> Guest instructors would get from Computer Reach:
>
> - a free meal during class-planning with our team prior to the class, helps to know your audience
> - allowance to share your business card and mention your business with students
>
> So far the topics we would like to cover are:
>
> History of Linux 
> History of Free Software
> History of LibreOffice
> History of WikiPedia
> History of Google Drive
>
> ....  many more topics will arise as we grow our curriculum.
>
> Class length is under negotiation at this time.  We are hoping for 2 hour hands-on labs.  
>
> The time schedule, exact class location, etc are still in the works ... we can tell you it will be within the city limits of Metro Pittsburgh.
>
> Please reply to me privately if you have an interest @  dsevick at ComputerReach.Org <mailto:dsevick at ComputerReach.Org>
>
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> Executive Director
> Computer Reach
> Humanitarian Computer Outreach
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