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Children want to play minecraft. All their friends play that, not Minetest. Who will they play with on their minetest server? You? It's like when I was a young
by navait 10y ago
Children want to play minecraft. All their friends play that, not Minetest. Who will they play with on their minetest server? You?
It's like when I was a young kid, I wanted a game boy, but I got those shitty tiger electronic games. My parents saw it as the same thing, but I couldn't trade pokemon with my friends or talk about Zelda. Proprietary software either way, but children don't care. Let children find their own way to FOSS, not force them into using some half-baked clone.
- mikegerwitz 10y ago> Let children find their own way to FOSS, not force them into using some half-baked clone. A classroom setting is different than gameplay with peers. I have a son. It's inevitable that he's going to want to play the games that his peers are playing, and my ideals are not more important than his social well-being. But what a classroom uses and teaches is vastly different. It's _what_ is being taught that matters. For example, some teachers may choose to use online tools for teaching mathematics, whereas others will stick to textbooks and hands-on play. Both are viable methods. I've already met with the school district on student privacy issues, and I plan to meet with them on other issues relating to software freedom, which they were receptive to.