Tonight we saw how open source extends into the world beyond software. Charlie Reisinger, IT director for the Penn Manor school district–with the help of a collaborative team of teachers, administrators, and students–helped bring an open educational model and a 1:1 laptop program to Penn Manor High School.
Penn Manor: The Power of Open in Education is a short documentary produced by Red Hat Films that premiered on the opening night of Red Hat Summit 2015. If you missed the general session, you can watch it here or view it on Red Hat’s You Tube channel.
The Creative Strategy + Design team at Red Hat came across the story of Penn Manor after viewing the Tedx Lancaster talk given by Charlie about the power of trusting kids in education. We were drawn to the story after our first conversation with Charlie when he said that he brought open source…
