Good question, perhaps a bit late to be useful
I'm not an engineer
I'm not an engineer
I'm not a developer or a computer scientist
I'm not an engineer
I'm not a developer or a computer scientist
My English is dreadful, but my French is even worse
I'm not an engineer
I'm not a developer or a computer scientist
My English is dreadful, but my French is even worse
I'm no politician, nor have any decision power
The history of ICT in the Andalusian educational system
The Guadalinex project is not the first project having to do with ICT and education in Andalucía
But not everything had been a success
A project to Fight this Situation
A project to Fight this Situation
Maybe the largest educational single network in the world,
administered centrally (it is planned that
by 2012 all
Andalusian schools will be ICT schools).
Two servers in each school, providing
firewire, proxy, cache, NFS homes and contents service.
Computers are IN the classrooms
Period 2003-2005
One desktop every two students
Period 2003-2005
Heavy desks with a hole for the CRT monitor
Period 2005-2009
As many computers as the school staff thinks necessary
(four models are possible: one desktop every two students,
ICT corners with two/three computers,
desktops for groups of 6-8 students or shareable laptops).
Period 2005-2009
Laptops, wifi
Period 2005-2009
Laptops, wifi
Period 2009-2012
Brand new model
Period 2009-2012
II. The Advanced Management Centre (CGA)
The Advanced Management Centre (in Spanish CGA) of ICT Schools was created as a consequence of Decree 72/2003.
Its tasks are
«Guadalinex» is the name
of the customized distribution
of the regional government of Andalucía.
Presently based on Ubuntu (click here for history), it is developed by local companies through a yearly public tender. The development is open.
No one-year cycle, please!
Teachers want a stable system.
Why?
1.- Upgrades are difficult. Remote massive upgrades are a nightmare.
No one-year cycle, please!
Why?
2.- Generic distributions...
No one-year cycle, please!
Why?
3.- The agency responsible of managing Guadalinex in the schools needs time to adapt the new version to the schools' infrastructure and hardware, to create the educational packages missing and to install the new distro in the computers of the new schools in the project, plus upgrading the old ones.
Averroes, "The Andalusian telematics network"
is the name of the educational portal of Andalucía.
Although the portal has existed since 1998, providing news, resources and hosting to the schools, a new Averroes was presented in 2008.
RSS feeds and the active participation of the teachers are key features of the new site.
Of the tools available, the resources repositories were the most demanded.
The idea behind the repository is to create an index of the quality resources already in Averroes, as assessed by experts in each of the educational fields, and after that to start adding new valuable resources.
It will permit social tagging, tag clouds and even personal portfolios.
Free software in schools, two independent challenges often mixed up:
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Need for real educational distributions: tools to reuse and share resources (browse, find, use, assess, adapt, improve, comment...)
Need for a previous reflexion on the role of computers in schools. Just a tool? That means nothing
Legal Note: this document has a Creative Commons 3.0 Licence with clauses Recognition - Share alike and Spanish jurisdiction.
All the tools used to create this presentation (especially Slidy) and the resources used are believed to be free, at least for non commercial usage. Please inform me of any mistake you find.
Thank you for your patience.
Doubts, questions, suggestions...?
Picture: «Find X», by dullhunk, uploaded to flicvkr on March 19, 2007 Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/426622486/sizes/o/ Rights: Creative Commons 2.0 en -by-nc-sa The smily pictures are from the openclipart package Picture: «Orilla» (orilla.jpg), by pericoterrades, uploaded to flickr on March 16, 2006 Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27094055@N00/113266658 Rights: Creative Commons 2.0 en -by-nc-sa The pictures of the schools and the school facilities are from various CGA and ISE documents.
«IES Azahar - TIC y coeducación» was created by teachers of the IES Azahar Secondary School. «Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves - Video on TED.com» is subtitled at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html Licence: There are links to download, share... I guess they allow to.
The tools the CGA designed for the use of the coordinators are documented at the CGA site. The statistics on training (formacion.png) are from the article by Carmen Rodríguez Martínez «Las TIC y la educación. Una política de integración en la comunidad autónoma de Andalucía» (noviembre de 2005)