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Road map 10/9/07 Session started 9:28 AM

K12 education is encircled by applications, operating systems, There are no on-ramps for users in schools – we ask schools to clear the path each time Key is access – //student access// drives success The “shot heard around the world" Vendors still think they are in charge Global issue Scattered implementations--vendors ignore, don't focus on. Where there are large implementations, the vendors have to take notice.
 * Mike Huffman** started discussions

Facilitator
 * Steve Hargadon**

How can we use this equipment to impact kids Get the word out Getting buy-in from teachers Deal made: If teachers will go through transition, $ saved by using OO.org spent on professional development. $60k this summer of $85k in professional development. The operating system is sacred ground--don't talk about when introducing OSS
 * Randy Orwin** – Washington State

Intersection of 1: and open source How to manage large roll outs Student maintenance Student development
 * Jim Gerry** Illinois Math and Science Academy (IMSA)

Ways open source can help bridge the gap between K12 and higher ed Making sure that technology doesn’t take center stage over the real mission of teaching and learning
 * John Gosney** – IU Faculty liaison for learning technologies

Academic computing – Wayne State Develop strategies in large urban school districts in bridging the digital divide Zero maintenance profile for the desktop scalable to 5 – 6 digit numbers of users Working with Detroit public schools – with very large numbers of low income students Transformational "Full compliance with legal issues" as a legitimate strategy for helping introduce OSS "Mike Huffman / Jim Hare" model: don't sell Linux, sell results or success
 * Jim Hare**

Revolution Linux company now - was a science teacher Director of pedagogical services Scalability of solutions Getting OSS into upper management The problem with "free" is that the schools don't want to pay. Where is the "Open Source Salesforce?"
 * Benoit St-Andre** - Canada

Teacher in primary school in France Remember the teacher-users side Software must be designed and updated based on user specification
 * Jean Peyratout**

Objective is to be a messenger to bring this to areas she works in: industry and the educational community Software as a service is a change in the commercial philosophy--will lead commercial company ed tech services to be more relevant. Managed wide area network services – manage Indiana and Tennessee Emerging technologies as a passion
 * Lillian Kellogg** Education Networks of America (ENA)

Spain (Extremadura) 80,000 Linux boxes, one for every two students Teacher and engineer The key point is the users – teachers Share experiences and errors How to integrate some many solutions around the world
 * Jose Luis Redrejo**

Teacher training advisor working on the training of teachers in the usage of Guadalinex, the Andalusian Linux distribution. The Andalusian project ~200,000 boxes administered centrally. Highlight the importance of training:
 * Juan Rafael Fernández** - Andalucía (Spain)
 * Sharing and how to encourage
 * "How to do things" - help teachers do things with computers in their classrooms

Double burden/solution/**opportunity**: //Teachers don’t know what to do with computer free or not free.// The culture of schools and the need for change for the 21st century. The understanding that technology can be TRANSFORMATIONAL. Also knowing that we don't know fully what those transformations will be. Changes in pedagogy toward 21st century skills: skills that are not new, but that the open technologies promote and facilitate. "Passion:" a passion for technology, and for learning. How does OSS provide added value to enhance and extend learning?
 * SIDEBAR DISCUSSION:**
 * Participatory
 * Mentoring / apprenticeship model
 * Open code

Office of learning resources 11K lessons and 20K review items – all public domain and on Moodle Need critical mass – 4 -5 teachers. Moodle as killer app
 * Laura Taylor** IDOE

"Non-intrusive technologies" – not replacing something that IT already offers.
 * SIDEBAR DISCUSSION:**
 * Wikis
 * CMS - Content Management Systems
 * Moodle
 * WIMS

Chemistry & Physics in Dunkirk, north France High School Software/hardware for experimental physics WIMS application Made a connector between WIMS and Moodle WIMS delivers exercises and promotes collaboration of concepts – on the fly tasking solution WIMS is perfect for technical subjects (mathematics and physics) Takes little time to produce a new task or exercise
 * Georges Khaznadar**

Project-based learning (Problem-based learning?) Schools need a transition to a form of education that is more collaborative, engaged, and project based and they will get to that with OSS. This is a change in pedagogy. What is success? And how does it get measured? Documentation of results
 * Kevin McGuire** (Michigan City)

Michigan City Lead tech on one-to-one How do we help teachers to accept alternatives? Managing machines
 * Keith Belzowski**

Free software in schools OpenOffice and Firefox: showing the legal alternatives (Firefox?) Use of thin- and low-fat clients Study of results by Norwegian government. Developing a community effort of Linux distributions – either thin client or workstation Why use free software – because you can get help from others in the user community Passion to learn is inspired by OSS Change of culture with teachers, IT and management – change of focus on education Focus on technology as a driver for education Policy of open standards How local government legislation for Open Docs / Open Standards has been very helpful. Politicians do it because they can claim benefits to local economy and vendors.
 * Anders Kringstad** - Norway

Open source curriculum Translating open source methods of distributed authorship into curriculum Using open educational resources to support and provide outreach for open source use in the classroom
 * Rob Lucas** – curriki

21st century skills Kids can drive adoption Affordable and sustainable one-to-one laptop program Use of terminal services to handle Windows programs in the Linux environment Educational collaborators – support of one-to-one programs Define values of technologies to enhance and extend learning Lower anxiety around the change, technologically, manage deployment ad updates, how do we support this? Story: started using Linux to reduce virus issue from laptops at home. Discovered students preferred.
 * Ale****x Inman**

“Windows” approach The “cooler” Development of a support community - good OSS support options Hardware compatibility – certified to run with Linux
 * Forest Gaston**

Iibrary / assistant principal Gave all students laptops
 * Correna Begay**

Translate reports Balanced approach: make sure Windows will work in the system Support tends to be underestimated Computers are 70% maintenance Need maintenance organization behind the introduction Do everything centrally Split maintenance and pedagogy How to bring computer use to schools New "digital divide"
 * Knut Yrvin** – Norway

Free software in a voluntary way – getting fame in Europe Win: “Honey-pot” is wiki, built as a support community. Seems important. Community Win teachers by getting applications that save time for them Publisher problems with development of free teacher software--publishers only suggest proprietary software in books/activities Environment protection – energy consumption of computers. Intel site with tips. Concerns about carbon footprint. "4 year rule" - how long it takes people to learn about and understand Libre/Free aspects. Sales force Adaptability of software to languages
 * Kurt Gramlich** - Germany
 * teachers (it's about saving time / automate bureaucratic solutions)
 * students (not an issue, on board or will be)
 * decision makers,
 * parents

4-year rule for learning about Libre/freedoms. Therefore... Lead with educational benefits. Don't ignore freedom benefits--need to remember importance of--but decisions won't be made on the Libre philosophy, they will be made on practical benefits of implementation.
 * SIDEBAR DISCUSSION:** **APPROACH**

CoSN IBM Intel Shuttleworth / Canonical HP
 * SIDEBAR DISCUSSION: WHO?**

Open source administrative software for schools Jeff Elkner in Arlington Virginia teaching OSS programming Can-do module – student written application School reform direction – tie and school reform can be tied too closely. Tom argued that you need to separate these to succeed. Can't tie them together or you'll be disappointed. Scale, access, sustainability – must realize that this is not going away
 * Tom Hoffman** – SchoolTool Project

High School English Teacher, Teacher in Residence at DOE for this school year
 * Carla Beard** - Indiana

Ubuntu project developer Doing some work for the OLPC project
 * Mako Hill**

Dedicated to fostering international cooperation around Open Source in Education
 * Bryant Patten** - National Center for Open Source and Education