Bren Smith writes about his transformation of resource-hunting fishermen to ecological sustainable ocean farmers, using open source ideology to share techniques and knowledge between his fellows.
Hal Plotkin compares the push for closed-source digital education material owned by profit-seeking ed-tech companies with the situation of pharma industry and public funded, privately owned research in the field gene technology
During the 10th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Brazil (2015), I happened to be a panelist on a workshop that I had helped organize. Amongst the panelists were ICT4D experts Dr. Mikhail Komarov, Patrick Ryan of Google, Sarah Kiden of the Uganda Christian University, just to mention a few. The workshop sought to answer the question of whether Open Educational Resources (OERs) could bridge the digital divide gap, especially in the Global South..
Academic learning is usually in the spotlight at school, but teaching elementary-age students “soft” skills like self-control and how to get along with others might help to keep at-risk kids out of criminal trouble in the future, a study finds.
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde served his prison sentence last year but still owes the entertainment industries millions in damages. Some might think that he's learned his lesson, but with a newly built copying machine he's generating millions of extra 'damages,' which might be worth a mention in the Guinness Book of Records.
There’s no question that computer science skills are helping students succeed. But, computer science is about more than just learning to program. Students also need to learn how to think programmatically, to use programming as a problem-solving tool, and to understand the global impact of computer science and computing
Lacey Williams Henschel draws fascinating parallels between coding python and writing novels, and explores the connection of style guides for for both.
Report of my visit to the Maker Faire Rome 2015 with many photos and some personal impressions of Rome, Italians and the Maker movement. Enriched with travel tips, a promise to come back next year and "how to troll the press center" and "how to make Makers happy" tutorials.
Horst tells his report of the Scratch conference in Amsterdam 2015: Turtlestitch Workshop, cool stuff from the MIT media lab, 3D turtles and upcoming visual programming languages.
Impressions of the open source/open hardware camera project AXIOM (seen on Linuxtage Wien) and axiom teams' insights given in a talk about crowdfunding