Some concerns regarding Enciclomedia

searches001This have been some of the last searches, many of them regarding Enciclomedia.Im sorry to upset you guys, but i dont provide any content regarding enciclomedia mainly for the following reasons:

1. Its copyrighted: yes… indeed, and you might not distribute it for “el hermano mayor” would go sue-crazy on your ass. It seems someone thought that having closed and proprietary material for PUBLIC schools wasn’t a good idea.2. It’s based on commercial software: yes… you guessed it, good old balmer sold lots of licenses of windows, office and encarta to our schools so if you want content for your schools you would probably have to pay more for it. besides im unsure if uploading your own content to the platform is possible.3. I personally don’t endorse enciclomediaEven if it was open source, free and worked as they told it would. Goverment has invested big time in this technology, but has made a lot of mistakes of conceptions. Enciclomedia doesn’t change the way children learn nor help them develop requiered skills. If you revise the “white book” report of results, you might actually find that the children that used enciclomedia did worse than those who didn’t.

It uses the same old paradigm of teacher and a blackboard and discourse. the only real difference is that now drawings are fancy and materials are even more expensive.If you are a teacher looking for material for your course i personally would tell you to go open. Nothing tells you care for your students like open knowledge. Give them firefox, teach them how to use wikipedia (damn install your own for your class) introduce them to mit’s open coursware. If its not possible for you lack of internet you could always get a very cheap computer and install edubuntu and use open office and previously downloaded content.Theres a complete world of open knowledge out there, please do free your children from governments burocracy. Help them build their very own knowledge and learn to be responsble for their education. hey you might even get interested in Ukini.If you need any specific resources and references let us know, we will gladly help your school shift to open society paradigms.cheers and good look to all teachers

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