[ Cloud Computing ] Re: eyeOS and cloud computing in education

That's good to hear.

However, I'd still agree with the other comments above about
practicality for the students. What they'll learn best is what they
use most, and I'd say this will particularly be an issue for non-CS
majors.

Motivating tools and importation of information can be done with
conventional operating systems. Why not have it based on Linux, for
example?

Additionally, the school is now in the position of providing
continuous support for this system, which assuredly will be more
expensive than more standard OSs.

Greg Pfister

On Dec 10, 3:17 pm, "Llorenç Vallès" <llor...@eyeos.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the comments.
> Just let you know that this school has a lab with more powerful PCs to
> get software skills. eyeOS desktop is oriented to all other subjects,
> as history or sciences classes for instance. Thanks to eyeOS all
> information is coming from all around the world, not only from 1 book
> and they can work with more motivating tools.
>
> Llorenç
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Konstantin Ignatyev
>
> <kgignat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Kids learn when they see something bigger, more complex than they are
> >>> 'supposed' to deal with at their age! That is how humans are wired by
> >>> evolution.
>
> >> Hm, something bigger and more complex... like a giant TV running Cisco
> >> Telepresence in their classroom, right?
>
> >>  - Chris
>
> > I missed word 'real' in the sentence. Big and small TV's only cause
> > dwindling attention span :(
>
> > --
> > Konstantin Ignatyev
>
> > PS: If this is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen
> > million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of
> > tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate
> > between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons
> > of topsoil, add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase
> > their population by 263,000
>
> > Bowers, C.A. The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement
> > Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools. New
> > York: State University of New York Press, 1997: (4) (5) (p.206)

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