#schools
Adobe plans to make Photoshop on the web free to everyone – Does it mean it will finally run on Linux too?
The company is now testing the free version in Canada, where users are able to access Photoshop on the web through a free Adobe account. Adobe describes the service as “freemium” and eventually plans to gate off some features that will be exclusive to paying subscribers. Enough tools will be freely available to perform what Adobe considers to be Photoshop’s core functions.
The question of course will be how useful the core features will be. We do have open source cross-platform GIMP, which is really powerful (and very likely more so than Photoshop’s web product), but GIMP is still a difficult UI can casual users (once you use it very often I imagine you’d know exactly what is where).
So yes, Photoshop follows Microsoft Office then in exposing young children to getting used to a product they’ll probably have to pay for later on if they want to progress a bit further with it. I’d really prefer that schools teach the principles of the various products on completely free and open source software, and apart from the freedoms of use, so that they are familiar with there being alternatives, and so that schools themselves don’t get locked into a specific proprietary product.
See https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/14/23162580/photoshop-web-free-freemium-version-adobe
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Event in the UK, 11 May 2022, Online:
Peace at the heart launch
A new report from #Quakers in #Britain
Join the launch of the report, #Peace at the heart: A relational approach to #education in #British #schools.
In this online event, join the Peace Education team from Quakers in Britain to unpack the case for a relational approach at every level.We'll hear from #educators leading this work in British schools, and see examples of peace education in #action.
Caukin Studio adds classrooms with "raw" aesthetic to school in Zambia
Architecture practice Caukin Studio has added four classrooms built from locally sourced materials to the Evergreen School in Zambia.
Designed for charity Mothers Of Africa, the buildings were created to reduce classroom sizes at the school in the Chongwe region of Zambia by adding additional teaching space.
Caukin Studio added four classrooms and a teachers' office to the rural school
"The concept of the school design was to create a fluid, open and adaptable learning environment for the students at Evergreen School," said Caukin Studio co-founder Josh Peasley.
"With classrooms that individually maintain strong internal to external links via natural lighting and ventilation but are also comprised of paired sets."
A pair of classrooms (left) and the teachers' office (right) enclose an outdoor area
The studio added two blocks, each with two classrooms, along with a teachers' office to the school. They were positioned to enclose an outdoor space.
"These offset pairs of class spaces also aid the dynamic intent of the wider school, having students able to pass in and around the school freely between lessons through external corridors and walkways," said Peasley.
"As an intervention, the project looks to encircle the main, linear, existing classroom blocks and create a central focal point for outdoor learning and assembly points."
The new classrooms stand near the existing school
Caukin Studio designed the building's structure so that it could be entirely constructed from locally sourced materials. The team amended the design as construction took place to incorporate available materials.
"The choice of materials was informed entirely by what could be obtained locally," explained Peasley.
"Naturally, these materials then complement the existing skillset of local people and are representative of the area and of the people," he continued.
"Many of the finer design details were refined on site, through collaborative processes, with the local team – with only the structural design set in stone before construction started," he continued. "This type of approach enabled the design to be responsive to the material availability."
Materials to build the classrooms was sourced locally
Concrete blocks were used to form the buildings' structure, which was infilled with locally made bricks and hexagonal tiles. Windows were covered with steel shutters that can be locked when the school is closed.
Above the classrooms, the steel roof sits on steel trusses to allow air into the buildings. Throughout the design, Caukin Studio left the majority of raw materials exposed.
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Annabelle Selldorf designs new primary school for rural Zambia
"We believe that there can be beauty to materials in their raw, exposed state and so aim to bring this out as much as possible," said Peasley.
"Often materials like the exposed clay earth bricks in the scheme have the perception locally of being a cheap option or 'poor person's' material so are avoided generally," he continued.
"However, by careful attention to detail on site, including these materials in a designed capacity can add perceived value through innovation and we hope that long term this aids in changing perception."
The materials are exposed throughout
The final aesthetic of the classrooms was the result of collaboration between the architecture studio and locally based construction force.
"The international team brought design expertise whilst the local team brought an in depth understanding of construction methodologies, local materials and the culture/context within which the project is situated," added Peasley.
"It was a combination of these things, alongside comments on didactic material exposure above, that gave rise to the project's ultimate aesthetic – with a large majority of the details being designed on site."
The classrooms were topped with steel roofs
Mothers of Africa, which aims to improve maternal health and reducing maternal mortality in Africa, was keen to use the project as learning opportunity and the classrooms were constructed by a gender-balanced local team.
"Through leading by example and utilising a balanced workforce split of male and female labour, the project set a visible precedent to the kids on site – with a number of the female students at the school going on to study construction in local technical colleges," said Peasley.
"One of the apprentice welders who fabricated the steel trusses and windows on site, went on to set up his own business selling the hatch window systems that were specified on the school."
Also in Zambia, Selldorf Architects designed a school in Mwabindo Village in the south of the country for charity 14+ Foundation.
The photography is courtesy of Caulking Studio.
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● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #Schools #Education ☞ Economists Say Raise Pay to Solve Public #School Staffing Crisis https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/04/economists-say-raise-pay-solve-public-school-staffing-crisis
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The attacks on #schools and on #education takes another step ahead https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/inno/stories/profiles/2022/01/20/column-tech-focused-charter-school-comes-to-pnw.html #billgates et al looking to control kids; for profit, too http://techrights.org/wiki/Gates_Foundation_Critique
● NEWS ● #TruthOut #Schools ☞ Right-Wingers Are Pushing to Take Over School Boards in Leadup to Midterms https://truthout.org/articles/right-wingers-are-pushing-to-take-over-school-boards-in-leadup-to-midterms/
OpenBoard for Windows, Linux and macOS: An Open Source Interactive Whiteboard for Educators or even YouTubers or Virtual Conferences
There are several open-source tools available for education. But, not all of them are impressively well-maintained at the level of commercial software put forward for schools and universities.
OpenBoard is one such exceptional free and open-source tool that enables education without any compromises. It is an interactive whiteboard program that features all the essential functionalities along with support for a variety of hardware.
It also can draw over the desktop background, which is ideal for YouTubers to illustrate explanations.
See https://itsfoss.com/openboard/
#technology #opensource #schools #educators #whiteboard
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● NEWS ● #TruthOut #Education ☞ #Schools Need More Resources Before They Can Open Safely, #Chicago Teacher Says https://truthout.org/articles/schools-need-more-resources-before-they-can-open-safely-chicago-teacher-says/
iophk: #schools paying of ransomware attacks are just underwriting bigger and # better attacks against harder targets; the way out is to leave #microsoft products
#schools are #covid19 superspreader venues; this should surprise nobody. https://www.brandonsun.com/local/COVID-outbreak-declared-at-New-Era-School-575750491.html
The north-German state of Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch to open-source software, including LibreOffice, in its administration and schools
In doing so, the state wants to reduce its dependence on proprietary software, and eventually end it altogether. By the end of 2026, Microsoft Office is to be replaced by LibreOffice on all 25,000 computers used by civil servants and employees (including teachers), and the Windows operating system is to be replaced by GNU/Linux.
The necessary steps for this are specified in the planning of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament (German), as digital minister Jan Philipp Albrecht explains in an interview with c’t.
See German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
#technology #opensource #germany #LibreOffice #schools
The north-German state of Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch to open source software, including LibreOffice, in its administration and schools. In doing so, the state wants to reduce its dependence on proprietary software, and eventually end it altogether. By the end of 2026, Microsoft Office is to be replaced by LibreOffice on all 25,000 computers used […]
Guess which one they should teach in #schools if they aim at giving #education instead of training kids... memorising GUIs that change all the time https://www.makeuseof.com/difference-between-gui-cli/
Stockholm’s official schools app was a disaster. So annoyed parents built their own open source version — a good case for open APIs
The Skolplattform, which has cost more than 1 billion Swedish Krona, SEK, ($117 million), has failed to match its initial ambition. Parents and teachers have complained about the complexity of the system—its launch was delayed, there have been reports of project mismanagement, and it has been labelled an IT disaster. The Android version of the app has an average 1.2 star rating.
A pity that the parents' open source alternative was originally so negatively received by the officials, but good that in the end there was acceptance. It goes to show though that with open data APIs, some tremendous innovation and improvements can be made available. There is nothing wrong with having two or three alternative apps to use. Application Program Interfaces (API) just need to differentiate between public data to be used vs data that an authenticated individual is allowed to access.
See These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops
#technology #schools #sweden #opensource
Stockholm’s official app was a disaster. So annoyed parents built their own open source version—ignoring warnings that it might be illegal.
#schools have become superspreader "hubs" that connect households and children forced to attend such indoctrination ("education") help the government control the households, preventing isolation
● NEWS ● #TheNation #Education ☞ Reopening #Schools : Is New York City Keeping Its Most Vulnerable Kids Safe? https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-school-new-york/
