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by smcg 1651 days ago
Bloated administration, expensive tech that doesn't work or is less good at educating than pencil and paper...
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aaomidi 1651 days ago
Oh boy when you find out about all the "edu-tech" companies that have sprouted up, creating "solutions" to non existent "problems". A lot of them also have family/friend relations to local governments :)
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Buttons840 1650 days ago
Want to do some good with your coding skills? Build open source edu-tech.

Imagine questioning the district on why they're spending so much when an open source options is both cheaper and better.

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mcv 1650 days ago
I imagine good edu-tech requires some expertise that not every open source developer has, though.

On the other hand, look at the massive amounts of high-quality data in something like Open Streetmap. It should be possible to do this.

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aaomidi 1650 days ago
> Build open source edu-tech.

They existed, they just didn't get adopted really. E.g. https://moodle.org/

There's so many ways of justifying not open source. Heck it's so easy to create FUD around open source projects.

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mcv 1650 days ago
Is it too much to ask to first spend money on teachers and basic supplies, and only if money is left over after that, spend it on extras, new tech, experiments, and administration?
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