Re: Open tablet --- Edu-EU Digest, Vol 46, Issue 1

Hello to all of you,

the fundamental discussion about tablets in schools has to be made.
But I try
to hide my displeasure
over remarks here, ignoring
the multimedial possibilities of digital systems like
tablet-pcs. I don't understand the educational sense of
hacking a digital camera, a gps, a hi-end-speaker-system,
a screen, a gyrometer, a keyboard, a microphone, a
surface for painting, a video camera, a computer, a system with
thousands of useful software for creating contents.... But I
do have hundreds of didactical ideas what to do with all
these features of a tablet.

But it is a difference whether you joining a process or criticize
it. Just for me it is watching Apple taken over the special and
sensible section in life: education!

This is taking place right now in Germany, and not only me would
like to offer schools an alternative to the (wonderful designed,
perfect working, good-looking, sensational easy-to-use and horrible
closed) Ipad and the well-organized and perfectly managed and
horrible closed-minded Apple e-book-campaign.

I need help to do this. There is hardware (maybe 'Spark'), there is
an open OS (for example the great KDE Plasma Active).

Now: there is some open software (which one is usable on
tablets?),where is support (for non IT-professional-companies like
schools are), how can we manage marketing?

I eagerly await the published official terms of contracts
( http://www.mk.niedersachsen.de/portal/live.php?navigation_id=26328&article_id=6525&_psmand=8 ),
which should be published today.

Daniel

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