This page is crated as a support for institutions, teachers and students in their journey.

Software in schools

When it comes to the software used in teaching and learning we must make a clear choice of what is suitable for teachers and students.

The idea that everyone ought to be able to have an education, and that education is one of the most important human rights, are the most important ideas that mankind produced.

If education is that important, than the tools that we use in this domain of our life is also very important.

Teachers and students must have the freedom to use the tools for education in any way that they want and see fit!

When it comes to the software tools used, we must make a clear gradation:

Free Software > Open Source Software > Proprietary software OR Free and Open source software > Proprietary software

Read about this: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html , https://opensource.org/license , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software

When it comes to the licenses in the domain of intellectual work (papers, presentations etc.), the gradation should be as follows:

CC BY-NC-SA > CC BY-NC > CC BY-NC-ND > CC BY-ND = CC BY-SA > CC BY

Read about this: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/use-remix/cc-licenses/

Teachers and students should aslo use the software on their local machines, as they need to avoid sharing their data with any third party organization.

Read about this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

School software recommendation

The software that school should promote and use are:

Operating system: Linux based operating system or BSD > MS Windows

Web browser: GNU Ice Cat, Epiphany, LibreWolf > Firefox > Chromium > Google Chrome or Edge or Safari

Office: LibreOffice > OpenOffice > MS Office

Conferencing: GNU Jami or Jitsi Meet or BigBlueButton > Hangouts or Skype or Microsoft Teams or Zoom or WhatsApp

Art, graphics and design: Blender, FreeCAD, GIMP

Math: GNU Octave

Text Editors: Emacs or Vim > Geany or VS Codium > VS Code

Programming: https://gcc.gnu.org/ , https://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/ , http://gprolog.org/

Presentation, writing papers and LLM

LibreOffice Impress -> for presenting

OrgModePresentation (omp) https://www.xn–b1alabakegx2c7b8m8ai.xn–d1at.xn–90a3ac/omp.html -> Converts Emacs .org files into online presentations, how to use: https://github.com/VukojicicMilic/OrgModePresentation

ORG mode presentation: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/non-beamer-presentations.html epresent

GNU TexMacs -> writing papers

Emacs ORG mode or Markdown (convert with pandoc to .pdf or Beamer etc.) -> for writing papers or creating presentations

Takahashi method use .txt file to produce the presentation LINK: href="https://www.милићвукојичић.од.срб/tmp.html

Chat with LLM: chatwithLLM https://github.com/VukojicicMilic/chatwithLLM (substitution for ChatGPT etc.)