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Re: KDE EDU
by Anne-Marie Mahfouf on Wednesday 12/Sep/2007, @23:31

This software is coded mainly by parents or teachers or students themselves. All of it was started to fullfill a need. I started KLettres to get my 4 years old prepared to read for example. Since then I have heard that illettrate adults also use it. Are you in the above category (parents or teachers or students)?
Another point: not sure about your background but what most European and American people easily forget is that KDE is world wide and Education is more needed in some countries. I happen to be involved in a charity which motto is about education.
Our programs are learning helping tools or educational games (hmm, isn't that concept of educational games or mind-training games heavily used for the Wii?)
About making kids code aged 11: well this is not our objective. We have KTurtle which is based on Logo, some teachers use it but that's it. Of course if you coded aged 11 I can see why you see our tools uninteresting...

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Re: KDE EDU
by Benoit Jacob on Thursday 13/Sep/2007, @01:33

Very interesting, I didn't know that KLettres was used by illiterate adults.

Of course, being myself a proud contributor to KDE-Edu, I disagree with Martin when he says that education apps are useless. Both the apps for children (KLettres...), and the apps for students (Kig...), are very useful IMO.

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