People need to be taught how to structure documents (headers, headings, sections, paragraphs, footers). I won’t discuss the not-use of MICROS~1 products for the benefit of Linux or UNIX or MacOS X now. If schools use MICROS~1 products, they should even mention that alternatives exist. The actual form of teaching IT produces computer illiterate people, expecting the PC telling them what they should do (because the PC knows itself and knows it better than you)…īut finally I agree. Instead, if they sit infront of another “Windows” or another “Word” version, they don’t know what to do. These generic concepts would teach a pupil getting his work done with any OS or application program.
Or if you’re familiar with the use of KDE or Gnome, you surely would be able to use “Windows”, except that some concepts would seem to you like they came from the history of computing, especially when you have learned to use a Mac… 🙂 If you are familiar with the use of OpenOffice or StarOffice, you won’t have any problems using “Microsoft Office”, except that you need to search for some functions in places where you don’t expect them. So it’s important to know, for example, about office applications.
Trial and error is no concept for productive work – and that’s what they are expected to deliver when they leave school. It would be much better if children learned generic techniques providing them means to solve problems, not stupid clicking around. Software used in schools usually is outdated and obsolete. “Are going to use” – future (not present). Your selection “what most people are going to use” makes me thinking you don’t really know what you’re talking about. First, I’d like to mention that I worked several years in the educational sector. OTOH, I don’t think it would be a bad thing to teach and expose students to alternatives either.” They need to teach what most people are going to use and, for better or worse, that’s Microsoft. We need our schools to actually teach IT, and the first thing would be to ditch microsoft.’
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