On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:58 AM, ThiaguWinId <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well Mr. Kumaran, Nice Review > I am a Teaching Computer Science for the past 15 years for the Hr. Sec. > Students. > > Kindly consider the following > > # The custom distro should "attract" the students > # Unless there is a "syllabus" and "exam" in the school curriculum , > students will not learn from LINUX > Thats conventional wisdom. But since you are better placed to try a contrarian view, could you, as an experiment, tell your students that the only thing they are expected to do in the computer lab is to 'create' something they can be proud of at the end of each class - be it a program that calculates fibonacci numbers or a goggle earth flyby of mount everest or solving some problems in khanacademy.org or some art using, say, muro.deviantart.com!! The reward will be having their 'creation' posted to the school notice board, in your annual souvenier, mailing lists you follow! You can send the creations to me, I'll put it on my website! > # 95% of the students are only "computer users" not "learner" > My opinion is to target the 5% who can be pushed further, achieve great things and bring glory to themselves and the institution. This will motivate atleast another 5% to follow their lead. Focusing all efforts on average students makes even the top performers do only average things because that seems to be enough to get along. > # You can not eradicate MS from student's domain > > I agree. If MS is not solving a problem it will go out of the market itself. thanks, mano _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
