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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-13T15:41:02.000Z",
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    "my reply to TenPlus1's comment",
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  "textContent": "> I understand what you're saying, and I agree with your motivations. However, if Luanti for Education were not advertised or even given a nice footnote/page somewhere, it might not get discovered and used by people would instead just use Minecraft. There are still legitimate uses of a computer class and if an educator is going to use some voxel game somewhere, I'd rather it be Luanti.\n\nI agree, and my reply to this would largely be the same as my reply to TenPlus1's comment: using Luanti for programming exercises in an IT class is fine and may be better than a generic Python installation assuming a good setup, but that's not what this is about. I and Dr. Horvath both agree that computer classes are a must, but that doesn't mean every class should also be a computer class, it just makes learning worse.\n\n\n> By offering Luanti for Education, the Luanti team is not forcing anyone to use more screen time in schools. An advertisement for a popular brand doesn't make that brand the only option, or require that people consume that brand. I think we need advertisements/offerings/listings for FLOSS alternatives as much as possible!\n\nThey really aren't forcing anyone, but so weren't 19th century pharmaceuticals forcing anyone to listen to the snake oil advertisers and buy their cure-alls. There appears to be a very real pit into which most if not all EdTech users (as educators) are falling into thanks to, as I mentioned in my reply to Astrobe's comment, the harmful EdTech culture of gamified, engagement-hogging, fragmented, task-based learning. Unlike the Big Tech, we in the FLOSS world are not constrained by profits or shareholder value, and can thus choose how we want to pose our product (Luanti) for its potential consumers. And yes, this does include the way we advertise Luanti for Education and whether we emphasize the way it should be used and which content should be shown in order to help both the interested educators and their students in the long run. It should be much less \"digitized classroom\" and much more \"modelling how volcano eruptions happen and how they affect the environment\", or something in that regard :)\n\nStatistics: Posted by rudzik8 — Fri Feb 13, 2026 15:41\n\n* * *",
  "title": "General Discussion • Re: Maybe we *shouldn't* advertise Luanti for Education?",
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