TODAY'S TRENDING ENVIRONMENT NEWS INDIA

🙈 Gurukul-themed nature classes in all schools under NDMC

🙈 Agroforests in the tropics provide key conservation landscapes for amphibians

🙈 The Leh airport’s journey towards carbon neutrality

🙈 Amai Mahalinga Naik the Padma-winning Karnataka farmer who changed barren land into lush farm

🙈 Khaman seller from Surat gets PETA award for saving birds from kite string: Gujarat

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#conservation #environment #india #schools #Agroforestry #Agroforests #Airport #AmaiMahalingaNaik #Amphibian #BanChineseManja #BanManja #ChetanPatel #ChineseManja #Delhi #Delhi #Ecology #environmentind #Forest #Gujarat #Gurukul #Gurukula #Karnataka #Ladakh #Leh #Manja #NDMC #News #PadmaShri #PETA #PETAIndia #SaveWesternGhats #SonamWangchuk #Surat #WesternGhats #Wildlife

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Gurukul-themed nature classes in all schools under NDMC In a bid to bring students closer to nature and teach them how to preserve the environment, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) is plannin…

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/

Right-Wingers Are Pushing to Take Over School Boards in Leadup to Midterms

The left must have an inclusive, diverse, united front against the right's threat to destroy public education.

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
#Blog, ##education, ##opensource, ##schools, ##technology, ##whiteboard

● 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/

Schools Need More Resources Before They Can Open Safely, Chicago Teacher Says

A Chicago teacher discusses this week’s vote to move to remote learning and the backlash from Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

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

COVID outbreak declared at New Era School

Over the weekend, public health officials advised parents of École New Era School that a potential outbreak of COVID-19 has been uncovered in a Grade 4/5 classroom. The outbreak has since been confirmed by public health and the spread is...

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 […]

https://gadgeteer.co.za/north-german-state-schleswig-holstein-plans-switch-open-source-software-including-libreoffice-its

German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

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...

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/

What Is the Difference Between GUI and CLI?

Do you use a GUI? How about the CLI? What do these acronyms even mean, anyway?

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.

https://gadgeteer.co.za/stockholms-official-schools-app-was-disaster-so-annoyed-parents-built-their-own-open-source-version

These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops

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

makes sense...

#makessense #finland #schools

● 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/

Reopening Schools: Is New York City Keeping Its Most Vulnerable Kids Safe?

The mayor calls the city’s Covid-19 protocols the “gold standard,” but epidemiologist Michael Osterholm says there’s a lot more the city can and must do.

eradicate...

#eradicate #vaccines #passports #schools #poiio

Exclusive Data: An Inside Look at the Spy Tech That Followed Kids Home for Remote Learning — and Now Won’t Leave | The 74 ⚓ https://www.the74million.org/article/gaggle-spy-tech-minneapolis-students-remote-learning/ #microsoft #espionage in #schools

Exclusive Data: An Inside Look at the Spy Tech That Followed Kids Home for Remote Learning — and Now Won’t Leave

A week after the pandemic forced Minneapolis students to attend classes online, the city school district’s top security chief got an urgent email, its subject line in all caps, alerting him to potential trouble. Just 12 seconds later, he got a...

Nits vs Covid-19 in UK Schools

https://twitter.com/mrs___dee/status/1430972978108538881

#BorisTheButcher #BorisTheLiar #ScienceMatters #DutyOfCare #HealthAndSafety #Covid19UK #schools #nits #ToryProfiteers #ToryCorruption #ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern #GeneralStrikeUK

#education #schools #indoctrination https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/schools-become-political-battlefield-culture-wars-trump-cultivated-n1278257

Schools become political 'battlefield' in culture wars Trump cultivated

"Normally, our kids have been off-limits," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. "Now, they are the battlefield."

● NEWS ● #TruthOut ☞ #Texas #Schools Allowed to Defy Abbott's Ban on Mask Mandates — for Now https://truthout.org/articles/texas-schools-allowed-to-defy-abbotts-ban-on-mask-mandates-for-now/

Texas Schools Allowed to Defy Abbott's Ban on Mask Mandates — for Now

The Texas State Supreme Court also ruled in favor of districts, for the time being, to enforce mask rules in schools.

● NEWS ● #Quillette #Education ☞ As US #Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World’s STEM Leader https://quillette.com/2021/08/19/as-us-schools-prioritize-diversity-over-merit-china-is-becoming-the-worlds-stem-leader/

As US Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World’s STEM Leader

All three of us are mathematicians who came to the United States as young immigrants, having been attracted by the unmatched quality and openness of American universities. We came, as many others before and after, with nothing more than a good...

● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ Despite Funding Threat, #Florida #Schools Defy DeSantis's Ban on Mask Mandates https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/05/despite-funding-threat-florida-schools-defy-desantiss-ban-mask-mandates

Despite Funding Threat, Florida Schools Defy DeSantis's Ban on Mask Mandates

"Now that students are required to return to school in person, prohibiting mask mandates is an action of the state that affirmatively puts them in danger," said the Southern Poverty Law Center of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's executive order.