https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/04d927df-f7c0-4993-9db7-dceb25a659b5 https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-17-tales_of_using_kde_software_for_teaching KDE software is tremendously useful for teaching. It greatly helps from teaching elementary school pupils to university level students. I believe that acceptance for using free and open source software in teaching environments has recently risen given increased attention on digital sovereignty. Given these circumstances, I was allowed to participate in two projects bringing KDE to local pupils and students last year. I would like to share some takeaways from these projects to hopefully motivate others to run similar projects. The perceived open mindedness to using KDE software in schools is certainly a great incentive. One of the projects took place in a local elementary school. It started with a 1000 Euro grant which was used to organize hardware to set up a popup computer lab. We were able to furnish seven individual computer workstations, each powered by a Raspberry Pi 7. Given these computers, we ran multiple sessions splitting a class' students in two groups so two students could collaborate per workplace. All of the RPs run KDE as sole desktop environment. We started with multiple sessions using Gcompris and eventually moved forward to smaller programming exercises and even assignments involving electronic components. The other project involves the evolution of two lecture rooms at a local vocational school. One of them is a pure Linux lab and the other is a dual boot lecture room. Both use KDE as main desktop environment. The key here is probably how we slowly increased acceptance from other teachers and how we are planning to spread KDE software further. The great acceptance of the above projects clearly shows that KDE offers great features for teaching. From pupils touching a keyboard for the very first time to students of post-secondary computer science programs. Gerald Senarclens de Grancy #kde2026 Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:28:18 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.kockatoo.org https://tube.kockatoo.org/lazy-static/avatars/75ca8476-e2c4-4f21-b5a3-a2d70922e464.png https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/04d927df-f7c0-4993-9db7-dceb25a659b5 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.kockatoo.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.