Books explaining Free Software for Children
Duncan
dguthrie at posteo.net
Thu Jun 15 22:38:43 UTC 2017
Hi Matthias,
Although I can't recommend any particular book, I'd like to say
something.
I didn't get to appreciate free software by reading news articles or
books. It was more an interest in technology, and then a few of those
issues that go beyond simply applying the technology became apparent,
and I decided to see how one can solve these.
In my opinion, the best way to encourage kids to love free software, is
to make them love technology, and then when they are more mature (or
when issues crop up at school) to explain free software. If they are
into programming it's not unlikely they might encounter these concepts
themselves.
What would really help the (more young) kids, in my opinion, might be
flash cards / card games / mobile apps, introducing some of the issues
that pop up around technology (which I believe that are almost always
best solved by using free software) such as privacy, the extension of
the so-called "right to repair" to software, accountability. If there is
no Wiki page (on FSFE or related organizations) regarding this, then I
think it might be interesting for someone to collate information and
resources around this.
In the meantime, let them program/play with computers to their hearts'
content!
Any other thoughts?
Best,
Duncan
On 15.06.2017 09:25, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> does anyone of you have good recommendations for books explaining Free
> Software topics, basics of computing, source code, etc. to children. I
> am interested in books for the age from 3 to 12. Also things which are
> slightly connected would be appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
> Matthias
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