What a great idea! When testing this out, the text from the articles is somewhat opaque, which makes it difficult to read. The images and headers seem look fine though.
For those of us with a black and white remarkable like RM2 could you add a setting to set all text to black including links? The blue washes out to gray.
Also setting the journal prompts to black would be wonderful - they are hard to see unlike the articles.
I have been teaching a Python course at my local jail M-F for over a year now, and something we have struggled with is finding potential internships or general employment for our students when they are released. We typically recommend our students to enter the local community college system, but we also have some students that are utterly brilliant and could succeed without a formal education.
Does anyone have any insight for how we should approach companies on their behalf? Is it more beneficial to teach web development (it seems like this is an easier way to break into the industry)?
I am also interested in hearing any opinions on how we should approach teaching in the setting where there is no internet access and the typical mathematics level is algebra.
> [...] how we should approach teaching in the setting where there is no internet access
Here is a link to a learning platform that is specially designed for the offline setting: https://learningequality.org/kolibri/
It can work both as a general purpose library (for self-directed learning) or as a LMS in a setting where there is someone who can "coach" the learners by monitoring their progress, organizing them into groups, and assigning specific lessons. In order for the content to work offline, it needs to be "packaged" as a Kolibri Channel (local copy of the content), then you can import it from a USB drive.
I've never been incarcerated, but the open source path worked for me. But on the other hand, my family is well off enough that I could afford a year writing code for free. I'd imagine that most people getting out of prison need to earn a living right away.
Ok, so a company which facilitates open source contributions by prisoners, possibly giving them greater leverage in their parole hearings as well as post-incarceration career prospects? Does that sound like something worth doing to anyone here?
I teach a programming course at my local jail, so there are institutions that allow it. In my experience, the jail prefers if the books come straight from Amazon or other known companies, so you might want to try that.
No - we don't have any formal internship program, but we've brought interns in occasionally, so feel free to introduce yourself via [email protected]
When we've done that, we're generally looking for people who can contribute as an equal member of the team, and we don't have much in the way of formal support for interns, so we can provide a better experience for final-year internships than for first work experience situations.
