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

John Lewis oflameo2 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 7 21:49:12 EST 2015


Sure, are you coming to the General User Meeting this Saturday?

We can talk after the meeting.

On 03/07/2015 09:39 PM, Dave Sevick wrote:
> 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>
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> Dave  Sevick
>>> Executive Director
>>> Computer Reach
>>> Humanitarian Computer Outreach
>>> Mobile:  724-779-0099
>>> Email:  dsevick at ComputerReach.Org <mailto:dsevick at ComputerReach.Org>
>>> Site:  http:// <http://computerreach/>ComputerReach.Org <mailto:dsevick at ComputerReach.Org>
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