Re: [Fsf-kerala] Free Software in Higher Secondary

On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Sasi Kumar wrote:
> I think this is an important thing that we have to take up. Can we
> send letters from FSUGs? I will also arrange to send a letter from FSF
> India. Let us take this up seriously. We need to suggest alternatives
> too. I understand that they teach Tally for Commerce students. We may
> not have a Free substitute for it. So, perhaps, we can suggest
> alternatives. Maybe we can suggest that things like video and sound
> editing be taught to students of humanities. Please come up with
> suggestions.

Dear Sasi (Nardamuni) , it is very nice to have subscribed to a list where you 
are.
I subscribed to this list to understand  how Free Software - Free Knowledge is 
going on in India (since I'm from South-America and from Italy). (And 
specially Kerala since is apparently there where things are doing better). I 
want also to understand more the role of FSF-India in this topics. In 
South-America and in Europe we don't have good experiences with "our" FSFs, 
(considering we have them... :)

A suggestion:
Will be interesting to have part of the FSF-India web-site dedicated to 
education deeply, with wiki and also a very extensive list of softwares for 
education. There are lots.


warm regards
juan


>
> Best
> Sasi
>
> 2009/2/10 Renni P Mathunny <[email protected]>:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I hope most of you are aware about the use of proprietary software in
> > higher secondary classes following Kerala Government syllabus. (CBSE is
> > no exception, they also suggest using proprietary software.)
> >
> > It is very sad that the students, who have learned free software in high
> > school classes are forced to learn/use proprietary software in higher
> > secondary.
> >
> > Can we begin a campaign for revising the Computer Science and Computer
> > Application Syllabus of Higher Secondary classes – atleast to replace the
> > proprietary softwares with equivalent Free Software tools? There is no
> > doubt that the whole syllabus is to be revised. Outdated/obsolete
> > tools/languages like Visual Basic 6.0 and ASP are still taught in Higher
> > Secondary.
> >
> > The software/tools to be learned by students in higher secondary courses,
> > are listed below. There are three different streams in Computer/IT --
> > Computer Science for Science stream, Computer Applications for Commerce
> > stream and Computer Application for Humanities stream. All of them are
> > included in the following list.
> >
> > 1. C++ (Turbo C++ is usually used as the IDE)
> > 2. SQL (MS-Access / Oracle / MS-SQL Server)
> > 3. Visual Basic (Visual Basic 6.0)
> > 4. HTML / DHTML / Scripting Languages (VBScript / JavaScript / Perl / CGI
> > / ASP / JSP)
> > 5. MS-Office
> > 6. DTP (Adobe Page Maker)
> > 7. Text Editors
> >
> > The syllabus did not mention anything about using Free software. But it
> > suggests the different proprietary softwares that can be used.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Renni
> >
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