New Zealand Schools OER Portal/Curriculum/Gne/Linux in the Social Science Curriculum Levels 1-4
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How using Gnu/Linux software fits into the NZ Social Sciences curriculum
Why people use Gnu/Linux?
Level 1 Social Studies
Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:
- Understand how people have different roles and responsibilities as part of their participation in groups.
- That a Gnu/Linux user is part of a group that shares their ideas freely with others.
Level 2 Social Studies
Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:
- Understand how people make choices to meet their needs and wants.
- In NZ we can afford to pay for software but in Africa software is provided by Freedom Toasters
- Understand how time and change affect peoples’ lives.
- In the past we used pen and paper, now we can use computers than run Gnu/Linux software
- Understand how people make significant contributions to New Zealand’s society.
- Gnu/Linux developers are people who share their ideas with others.
Level 3 Social Studies
Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:
- Understand how groups make and implement rules and laws.
- The freedom to release ideas for the common good of society with Creative Commons, GPL and Copyleft licenses.
- Understand how people make decisions about access to and use of resources.
- Access to computer software should not be available all – including disabled and poor.
Level 4 Social Studies
Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:
- Understand how the ways in which leadership of groups is acquired and exercised have consequences for communities and societies.
- Studies of notary Gnu/Linux players - Richard Stallman, Linus Torvald, Mark Shuttleworth
- Understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places, and environments.
- Collaborative approaches, Open Licenses lead to world wide distributions of free software
- Understand how producers and consumers exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities.
- Government passes laws that protect consumer. Consumers have a greater choice when there is competition in the market place.
- Understand how formal and informal groups make decisions that impact on communities.
- Gnu/Linux user groups are used to promote free software with consumers and government agencies.