[liberationtech] This is the free learning materials I'm putting on refurbished computers these days

[davidicus]

Dear Phil,

This sounds like a great resource Phil and harkens back to the times of
truly free and open source, community-building on/offline !

And your approach does not introduce some novel oligopolist ICT
appropriation of "community" or the "commons" or SillyCon Valley's version
of the "sharing economy" which has often become code-word for *unabated
greed and labour exploitation*. Let us hope we hear more such alternative
approaches like yours Phil in 2021.

Kind Regards,
~david

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Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
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On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 10:59, Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com> wrote:

> Hi refurbishers and other digital inclusion activists,
>
>      One of my hobbies is writing nonfiction reading passages -- the kind
> that show up on reading tests.  My reading passages show up
> on various reading tests around the country -- and also in various English
> language textbooks used in other countries. I also give them
> away for free on my web site at
> http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/stories.menu.html
>
> (scroll down past the children's stories to get to the nonfiction reading
> passages)
>
>     I've created some multimedia versions of these reading passages where
> the text is read aloud by a computer voice -- highlighting the
> sentences as the sentences are read.  These might be helpful for ESL
> students -- as well as native English speakers learning reading and writing
> skills.
>
>      I've collected these all together -- along with some other files --
> in a package titled Reading Passages and More.  You can download for
> free from the Internet Archive and freely distribute these files for any
> purpose.  The package is 1.3 GB in file size.  You can grab it from the link
> on the right side of
>
> https://archive.org/details/reading-passages-and-more
>
>       Use the torrent download, when possible, to save the Internet
> Archive bandwidth costs.
>
>             I'm hoping this small project of mine can spur others to share
> "digital culture" in such a way that the recipients of donated computers
> can spend several hours (or days) poking thru different multimedia and
> text files.
>
>             phil
>
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> http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/stories.menu.html
>
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>
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