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Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:28:41 -0500 (EST) |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Dora Scilipoti <dora> 20/11/11 11:28:41
Removed files:
server/staging : teachers-help-your-students-resist-zoom.html
Log message:
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/teachers-help-your-students-resist-zoom.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.2&r2=0
Patches:
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-<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
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-<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
-<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
-<!--#set var="TAGS" value="resist" -->
-<title>Teachers: Help Your Students Resist Zoom
-- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
-<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/side-menu.css" media="screen" />
-<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
-<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
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-<div class="nav">
-<a id="side-menu-button" class="switch" href="#navlinks">
- <img id="side-menu-icon" height="32"
- src="/graphics/icons/side-menu.png"
- title="Education Contents"
- alt=" [Education Contents] " />
-</a>
-
-<p class="breadcrumb">
- <a href="/"><img src="/graphics/icons/home.png" height="24"
- alt="GNU Home" title="GNU Home" /></a> /
- <a href="/education/education.html">Education</a> /
- <a href="/education/resisting-proprietary-software.html">Resistance</a> /
- <a href="/education/whats-wrong-with-online-teaching.html">Online
teaching</a> /</p>
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-<div style="clear: both"></div>
-<div id="last-div" class="reduced-width">
-
-<h2>Teachers: Help Your Students Resist Zoom</h2>
-
-<div class="article">
-
-<p>Today more than ever, technology has become an instrument of
-surveillance and oppression that can only be fought back
-by empowering citizens with the ability to inspect and control the
-software they use. It is the responsibility of all educational
-institutions to provide the means to that end by teaching and
-installing only <a
-href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free/libre software</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Zoom, a proprietary online conferencing program that is becoming
-more and more dangerously popular, is an example of such harmful
-technology. No educational institution should ever use it.</p>
-
-<p>Please don't force students to install Zoom on their computers, or
-to use its web version.</p>
-
-<h3 id="to-all-teachers">To all those teaching remote classes with
-Zoom</h3>
-
-<p>It is unfortunate that you are using Zoom, a nonfree program that
-spies on users and takes away your students' computer freedom, along
-with your own. By using Zoom, students are dependent on a software
-they cannot inspect, study or change. Their freedom to learn about
-technology and how it works is destroyed.</p>
-
-<p>If you use Zoom, some students might decide to continue using it
-beyond your classes, effectively surrendering their privacy over
-communication, and would hence miss on the opportunity to learn how to
-keep control of their data and computing.</p>
-
-<p>There are better programs you can use for teaching remote classes,
-free/libre programs like <a
-href="https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/";>Jitsi</a> or <a
-href="https://bigbluebutton.org/";>BigBlueButton</a>. By choosing these
-programs you are enabling motivated students to learn about the
-software they use everyday, and some of them one day will be able to
-adapt it to their needs, serving a larger community. Those who will
-not pursue such curiosity, will still benefit from using a software
-that respects their freedoms and doesn't spy on them.</p>
-
-<p>Choosing free software for your classes will positively impact
-life-long learning, a crucial skill for any student. In fact, students
-will learn that it is in their power to run, study, modify and share
-any free software they wish, according to their own curiosity and
-needs. In contrast, by adopting proprietary software, students are
-taught to become mere consumers of a user interface, with no power
-over the technology they are using.</p>
-
-<p>If you independently opted for using Zoom in your classes, we urge
-you to switch to software that respects your students' and your
-freedom.</p>
-
-<p>If Zoom was imposed on you by your school's administration, we
-recommend you to contact them and ask to drop Zoom in favour of a free
-program. Ask other teachers for help, and explain why software freedom
-is paramount for education.</p>
-
-<h3 id="last-resort">Last resort</h3>
-
-<p>If you really can't remove Zoom, we propose this temporary
-workaround only as a last resort to help your students avoid using
-Zoom in the short term. We do not recommend it as a stable, long-term
-solution.</p>
-
-<ol>
- <li>A day or two before the class, post the visual materials for
-each day in some freedom-respecting way, so students can download
-them.Any simple old-fashioned web site is suitable for this.</li>
-
- <li>Encourage students to phone the Zoom server; tell them the phone
-number and the code for the conversation. That way they can listen to
-the audio of the session, while they follow the visual materials
-alongside.</li>
-
- <li>Tell them that you regret the use of Zoom and show them which
-are the free programs to replace it. Explain <a
-href="/education/edu-why.html">why</a> proprietary software such as
-Zoom has no place in schools (and in any other aspect of life.) You
-could take this opportunity and talk about free software, and why <a
-href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">software
-freedom is even more important today</a>.</li>
-
- <li>Make a recording of the Zoom conversation for each session, and
-post it in a freedom-respecting way soon after that session ends.</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>If there were situations in which this solution is not feasible,
-such as examinations, and students refuse to use Zoom, then you, as a
-teacher, could set up a different meeting in parallel or an
-alternative exam session using one of the free programs mentioned
-above. Or you could provide a computer in your school with Zoom
-installed, and ask the student to join the exam using that computer.
-That way, the student won't be forced to install non-free software on
-their computer, and the use of Zoom will be limited to the exam. If
-you opt for this choice, we recommend the school computer to run a
-<a
-href="/distros/free-distros.html">free software distribution</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Simply by telling students about this possibility, which you can do
-more than once, you will help inspire resistance to Zoom and other
-freedom-trampling programs, and avoid inculcating surrender.</p>
-
-<p>You will still be using Zoom, which is deleterious for your
-freedom. Some of your students will probably still be using Zoom,
-which is deleterious for their freedom. But, thanks to your efforts,
-some of them will avoid using Zoom.</p>
-
-<p>Please note that the workarounds we suggest here are only meant as
-a short-term solution to help teachers react quickly to oppose the use
-of nonfree software for remote lectures rather than deferring to the
-new academic year. In the long-term, it is crucial to migrate to
-free/libre software and online conferencing programs like Jitsi and
-BigBlueButton.</p>
-
-<p>All software and technology as a whole must be free, and this is a
-small step towards that goal. <a
-href="/philosophy/saying-no-even-once.html">Saying <em>NO</em> to
-unjust computing even once is progress</a>.</p>
-
-</div>
-</div>
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