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

[Dave Sevick]

John,

Thanks for your interest.  I look forward to talking with you offline.

We will be highlighting the works of Richard Stallman and the FSF.

Dave


> On Mar 7, 2015, at 9:23 PM, John Lewis <oflameo2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> Dave  Sevick
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>> Computer Reach
>> Humanitarian Computer Outreach
>> Mobile:  724-779-0099
>> Email:  dsevick at ComputerReach.Org <mailto:dsevick at ComputerReach.Org>
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Dave  Sevick
Executive Director
Computer Reach
Humanitarian Computer Outreach
Mobile:  724-779-0099
Email:  dsevick at ComputerReach.Org
Site:  http://ComputerReach.Org
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