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Turning kids on to computing

11/24/2006  
Relevance: 9.06
Tis the season to be deluged with ads for all manner of crap for kids, including “educational” computer games. Yeah, right. Wouldn’t you rather give your kids something of value, and that will help them develop real skills? Instead of turning into nearsighted wheezing lardbutted obsessive-compulsive button-pushers?
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Foresight Linux 1.0 Kids Edition ScreenShots, Linux built for learning

10/11/2008  
Relevance: 8.65
I finally found a good Linux Distribution for kids. My daughter who is turning 5 soon completely loved the learning games on Foresight, especially TuxTyping. I highly recommend this OS for us Linux Geeks that have kids. It has a nice set of learning games, fun to play games, OpenOffice, and more. I just feel it is lacking a good proxy wizard so that kids are not allowed to hit certain sites. I feel any distro targeted at kids and learning should have a great proxy wizard. Well I hope you enjoy the screenshots below.
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KOffice in educational settings

11/11/2007  
Relevance: 7.93
Some years ago the idea came up to fork KWord and refurbish it to be more stripped down, and have simpler and bigger buttons. The effort was applauded by many but in the end didn't really work out. It was a great heads up and I took it with me for the next generation of the applications. As I've been working on KOffice2 high-level design I had 2 user groups in mind, the lawyers office and the Kids 'office' . The two extremes that I wanted to be able to both have a real use for KOffice. In the last days I finalized a plugin for KOffice that is targetted directly to the 'kids office' . I reused the artwork that was created for the kids-office by Dannya well over 2 years ago and ended up with a simple replacement for the more complex standard interface. I hope that kids, and many parents, will appreciate this new user interface.
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Kids say"thank you" to (Ed)Ubuntu team

10/21/2006  
Relevance: 7.57
Weve just installed two donated computers in a community nursury and breakfast/after schol club in Lincolnshire. The kids absolutely love them, most are from underpriviledged backgrounds and many of them have never used a computer before. As a result they will grow up computer literate.
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Red Hat High 2007: Getting Started

07/10/2007  
Relevance: 7.53
Today, Sunday, is the first day of Red Hat High, and I'm expecting 47 kids. It's 4:00 in the afternoon, and orientation starts at 4:30. Of those 47 kids, how many have arrived so far? Three, that's how many. Three anxious middle-schoolers and their families, all milling around the huge, empty meeting hall at Red Hat headquarters.
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OLPC Mali: Kids Take Home the XO Laptops

10/11/2008  
Relevance: 7.41
After introducing the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop to the teachers and then the third and fourth grade students involved in our OLPC pilot project in Ouéléssébougou, Mali, we finally got to see how exactly the kids use the XO laptops. We found out in the fifth and sixth weeks of the program lots of good news: the kids love the XO, especially since they have now started taking the small green laptops home at night. In addition they have really taken to navigating the Sugar OS and have become speedy typers. Even better is the collaboration that takes place in the classroom to teach each other how to use certain applications.
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Can we afford not to give our kids Linux?

11/11/2007  
Relevance: 7.38
For any parent, myself included, setting your kids loose on the net is a daunting prospect. We have to do it because the net is a fact of life - it's in our schools, the workplace, public libraries and in many if not most homes of the developed world. Therefore, do we really have any option but to give them Linux?
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Open source will always have Paris

02/07/2007  
Relevance: 6.63
Got to hand it to the Open Source community. They are kind of spinning their wheels here in North America, but they made some headway in, of all places, France. They are giving 175,000 school kids USB keys loaded with open source software. This will come at a cost of 2.6 million Euros (roughly $3.97 million). So much for it being free. At least to the kids it's free and that is the point.
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XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?

05/17/2008  
Relevance: 6.37
On the surface, a little choice isn't going to kill anybody. In fact, choice is good. And if some poor kids can get a laptop, learn a bit and be exposed to the world I don't care about the operating system. But here's what gives me pause about XP coming to the XO (statement, Techmeme): There's no way Linux will get an equal shake on OLPC's XO. In fact, I reckon that more XO units will ship with XP than Linux in the not too distant future. Why? Governments are making the buying decisions. Not kids.
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Linux in Education: Concepts Not Applications

06/12/2008  
Relevance: 6.20
One of the biggest arguments used against Linux in grade school level education is that we aren't teaching kids to use the applications they'll use in the"real world". As the Technology Director for a K-12 school district, I've heard that argument many times. After all these years, I still don't buy it. Truthfully, to really give kids a well rounded education, we should expose them to as many different types of technology as we can. Children should be comfortable using whatever tool is at their disposal to accomplish a given task. This isn't a new concept by any stretch of the imagination. For some reason, when it comes to computers however, the"Microsoft Mantra" is all too prevalent.
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