<p>Where is your school located? I have spent years struggling to get my education project to critical mass. Closest thing so far is OLPC but they focus on younger children in third world countries. My idea is to reach high school students to be self sufficient. They make their own slate computers and run the school network. These days I see too much corporate influence. Off the shelf tablets, commercial software. Little change -- improvement -- in teaching methods.</p>
<p>Gary Dunn<br>
Open Slate Project<br>
<a href="http://openslate.org">http://openslate.org</a></p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 14, 2011 4:58 AM, "David Corking" <<a href="mailto:lists@dcorking.com">lists@dcorking.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050">Chuck Smith wrote:<br><br>> We are starting a different school that runs by having the students<br>
> create w...</font></p>This reminds me of the choice Victorian co-operators made to select<br>
education as one of the key Rochdale Principles.<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><br>> We are using the advancement in energy to take it to the next level which<br>> will bring us to an o...</font></p>You are probably already aware that the Smalltalk community has been<br>
heavily involved in programming education, for example:<br>
Squeak Etoys<br>
Scratch and Build Your Own Blocks<br>
Alice (also built in Java)<br>
Bots Inc (<a href="http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/botsinc" target="_blank">http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/botsinc</a>)<br>
<br>
Also, you may be interested in following these new UK-based communities:<br>
<a href="http://codingforkids.org/" target="_blank">http://codingforkids.org/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/</a><br>
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Hope that helps, David<br>
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