Penn Manor: The power of open in education

Charlie Reisinger, IT director for the Penn Manor school district, helped bring an open educational model and a 1:1 laptop program to Penn Manor High School. Follow Charlie as he shows how an open philosophy and a collaborative team of teachers, administrators and students leave traditional educational models behind in favor of a future of open possibilities. #opensourcestories
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[@DustinKirkland]

Yay for more OpenSource in Education! Note that the school featured here are running Ubuntu in fact, on these PCs. See Unity at 3:07 and 4:35. Beautiful promo video, Red Hat. Here's an article from March 2014: insights.ubuntu.com/2014/03/25/an-ubuntu-pc-for-everyone-in-penn-manor-school-district-pennsylvania-usa/

[@robtongue]

Oh... My God.... I couldn't help but lose a little bit of composure with this. If I had a program like this when I was going through high school, it would've..... hell... I don't know.... The sky is the limit. I want to commend everyone on a job well done, and every school in the universe should strive to do exactly what it is you are doing.

[@SearchingPeaceInside]

Excellent ..... Truly open source......
I feel open source means ...... being true, Good human, Thinking very positive about All...
Giving off everything..

[@Clink74]

I'm from Germany and I was an exchange student at Penn Manor High School in 1991. Man, has that school changed! Today I am a teacher myself and I was truly inspired by the approach presented in this video. Makes me proud to have been a Penn Manor student!

[@stillwaters4840]

"we trust you" THAT is what students need to hear. (THAT is what everyone needs to hear :) 1:30 "when students have a chance to explore you're teaching them to be responsible". 2015 was so long ago! and this is still vital. I would LOVE to know where these students are now :) Thank you for these 8 minutes of inspiration.

[@linuxgeek87]

I work at a Open Source School in NZ. The IT departments of Open Source schools should stay in contact we need to start a mailing list so we can bounce ideas and get advice from each other. Open Source in schools comes with a lot of challenges and we need to learn from each others failures and successes.
A mailing list would allow us to ask for advice or find out how other schools have found solutions to problems. I might look into starting a mailing list, if any one knows of any more open source schools please mention them as I would like to invite as many IT departments of Open Source schools to the list as possible.

[@logicawe]

Wonderful video, thanks for sharing the story.

[@Maxt3r1]

Great video