Forget the apple; surprise teacher with open-source software
Few things are quite so technically cutting edge as open-source software, which is why you expect to see it used by really cutting-edge folks.
Like . . . kindergarten teachers?
“I’m discovering the switchover isn’t as horrible as I feared it would be,” said Kim Stinson, one of three primary-level teachers from the Orono, Maine, public school system who found themselves surrounded by uber-geeks at a recent conference on education software, held not far from the White Mountains.
Orono’s kindergarten-through-second-grade classrooms are getting equipped with computers running Linux and other “open-source” software – meaning programs that are usually free to buy, and always free to tinker with or distribute, unlike software from Microsoft, Apple or other big companies.
That tinkering has led volunteers, semi-pros and some for-profit companies to create open-source alternatives for programs ranging from Word and Excel to grade-school favorites like Reader Rabbit and KidPix.
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