[ubuntu-za] iSchoolAfrica

[Anwar arnold]

Hi Frans

The takeup of Raspberry Pi globally to teach basic programming skills
and understanding bears testimony that MS and Apple locked learning
are some of the major problems

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Frans de waal <meesterarend at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 2, 2013 11:55 AM, "Percy Langa" <percylanga at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2013/05/05 02:07 PM, Johan Mynhardt wrote:
>>>
>>> This is sad, to say the least: http://www.ischoolafrica.com
>>
>> I'm of the opinion that any tech is better than no tech. The real problem
>> in our schools on the MS-locked public education, from pre-school to
>> universities (the same applies to ESRI-locked university studies). I guess
>> there is no one solution to this challenge given the size of the problem,
>> especially in developing countries where govt's are failing to deliver books
>> on time and to build at least a decent library per school.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Percy
>>
>>
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> In the end the question stands -  are there realy any solution that would be
> sustainable?
> Even a linux solution would only stand while there are someone with the
> knowledge to assist, and not to mention schools tend to work with software
> from companies that do not support linux and are not planing to in the
> future either, at least Macs are Unix based wich can help to overcome the
> problem in a way.
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