I agree 100%!! I work tech support at a college, and all too often I deal with people who learned win - duh-oh-zzz in k-12 by rote. The primary/secondary school system in our community uses a very different configuration than our college (small community- 1 high school, 1 college). WHen they arrive here, the usual first complaint is " This isn't windows!" followed by "this isn't the windows I learned in school!". If they had been properly taught basic COMPUTER literacy, they could sit down at a Mac, windblows, or linux box, and be productive in minutes. Instead they are taught the Gospel of Bill, by dogmatic and brain dead instructors.
Ken Jean-Christophe Berthon wrote: >Hello, > >I think that in this thread, the problem of teaching Windows at school has >been misunderstood. I'm disagreeing that professors teach at school about a >system of Windows or Linux or anyother. That is NOT the school matter. >School has been made to learn students methods. Then, once the student >arrive in the real world, he will apply all this generic method and will >manage what ever the situation is, the systems or the tools to solve problem >or to choose a good solution. >Learning how to use a specific software is like learning how to solve a >specific mathematical problem. You can throw away that lesson after as in a >problem with different parameters (but the same method to slove) you'll NOT >be able to solve it. >So teaching Windows at school is a bad idea, and also teaching Linux! How to >use Windows or Word or Linux or whatever you like should be the personal >choice of the student for it's own (nothing to do with school!) >After for people who don't have access to technology because of financial >problems, the school should be delivering some optional extra Practical >Classes, where you could go kind of freely. There, they would be able to get >familiar with internet, with a word processing, etc. but they should be >trying different ones, see what they would prefer... Which means also to >have competent teachers in different systems and softwares. > >Jean-Christophe > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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