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Carolyn Fox is an educator, librarian, historian, and an un/homeschooling mother. She lives in Massachusetts with her UK husband and son.
Carolyn Fox
Carolyn Fox is an educator, librarian, historian, and an un/homeschooling mother. She lives in Massachusetts with her UK husband and son.
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I agree except I keep seeing questions every week posted on the International Society for Teachers in Education (ISTE) LinkIn Group about whether corporations should be allowed to run publicly funded online schools or something equivalent. I also keep seeing little knowledge about open source.
People are used to paying for information - copyright, trademark material dominates. I think people have forgotten about the public domain and what public institutions mean. The country's largest provider of public virtual schools is a private, proprietary-based, commercial enterprise who lobbies to get in.
Cities and towns rely on and do not question paying money for print or digital information and content, even though digital information and content is freely available and accessible with open source today. There's a dissemination issue and intellectual freedom issue at stake.