GCompris - Free education software for your child
I felt some relief after securing my Ubuntu PC at home for my son from the exposure of porn at early age with OpenDNS. To get the PC to serve me on educating him on letters, numbers, colors, shapes, sizes and almost anything that he could get from Disney Channel, I installed GCompris - the free education software.
I must say that it is very intuitive, interactive and attractive to my son. The advantage of GCompris compared to Disney Channel is interactivity - while he could only watch and learn from Disney, with GCompris, he could interact using simple mouse gesture and sometime keyboard.
GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. Below you can find a list of categories with some of the activities available in that category.
- computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, …
- algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, …
- science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulation …
- geography: place the country on the map
- games: chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku …
- reading: reading practice
- other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, cartoon making, …
Currently GCompris offers in excess of 100 activities and more are being developed. GCompris is free software, that means that you can adapt it to your own needs, improve it and, most importantly, share it with children everywhere.
And don’t worry. GCompris can be installed in almost any operating system (Linux, Mac & Windows) and has more than 40 language translation. Now give your child some good and free education!