Comments on: One Laptop per Child SF Community Summit 2010: Wrap-up https://princessleia.com/journal/2010/11/one-laptop-per-child-summit-2010-wrap-up/ Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph's public journal about open source, mainframes, beer, travel, pink gadgets and her life near the city where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars. Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: Dinda https://princessleia.com/journal/2010/11/one-laptop-per-child-summit-2010-wrap-up/comment-page-1/#comment-3155 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:51:35 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3611#comment-3155 “It also introduced me to people who feel the same way about open education that I do about open source, and it was fascinating to see how much overlap there was in our goals and how open education on open source technology really is a match made in heaven. With both, now not only can students and teachers learn material, they can manipulate their whole learning environments to meet their specific needs and push the boundaries of what they can and have access to learn.”

EXACTLY! Many in FOSS don’t yet understand how truly disruptive, in a good way, their work is to the traditional education model. The potential for open learning to feed into FOSS and vice versa is truly stunning.

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