Teaching Materials
This page contains teaching materials about free software. No matter if you are a teacher looking for materials for your classroom, a student planning on showing fellow students what free software is all about, or a free software activist going on a classroom visit, you might find these materials useful and may use them as stated in the licenses attached to the materials.
Looking for volunteers to teach your students about free software? Have a look at the Group:Teaching_Volunteers.
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Presentations
Presentation for a high school class
Description: This is a presentation about free software and the FSF. It covers the following topics: What's free software? What's the FSF? FSF campaigns How to get involved? Free social media, and free software and cybersecurity.
Potential use cases: This presentation can be used for any high school class. Section 6 is ideal for students with a focus on cybersecurity and can e.g. be replaced with a section on free software in education.
License: This presentation by the Free Software Foundation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.
Files: File:Presentation-for-high-schools.pdf
Presentation-for-high-schools.odp
Handouts
The four freedoms -- Questionnaire
Description: This handout contains a survey with seven questions about the four freedoms.
Potential use cases: We recommend using this handout as a conversation starter when talking about the four freedoms and the free software definition.
License: This handout by the Free Software Foundation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.
Files:
File:Questionnaire-4-freedoms.odt
File:Questionnaire-4-freedoms.pdf
The printer story
Description: This handout contains an excerpt of the Transcript of Richard M. Stallman's speech, "Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation" at New York University in New York, New York on 29 May 2001.
Potential use cases: You could e.g. use this handout to explain how the free software movement started. We recommend distributing this handout to the class before your class visit and asking them to read the story as an optional assignment.
License: This handout by the Free Software Foundation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.
Files:
File:Handout-printer-story.pdf
File:Handout-printer-story.odt
Lesson plans
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