USB flash drives with Live Lernstick distro deliver educational software in schools
Smart Settings
The Lernstick free distribution provides a unified and mobile environment for students and teachers. At home or in the classroom, you always have access to the same programs.
With just a USB stick and a portable hard drive or SD card, teachers of primary through secondary courses can provide their students a consistent learning experience, in and out of the classroom. The Lernstick (learning stick) distribution [1] is a slightly modified Debian 7 Live system with numerous educational programs aimed at different ages, including the 3D Marble Virtual Globe, the computer game TuxMath, a vocabulary trainer named Parley, and the music notation program Reunion (Figure 1).
School Days
A lack of education funding means that schools are rarely able to provide their students with computers. Instead of sending parent teacher associations begging, the students could bring their own laptops to classes. This also offers the advantage of being able to continue working at home with the same device.
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