On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: Edu in linux": > Hi Ely, > You are wasting your time. Israeli K12 has no use for Linux. Been there, > done that. If the kids don't have the same OS at school as at home then > forget it. If it doesn't run MS Word, then forget it. > Regards,
I admit it's been a few years since I went to school (I left highschool 11 years ago), but my experience was completely different from what you describe. In elementary school (6th grade) we learned arithmetic on a computer for one hour a week; That computer had some unknown OS that we had no access to - we only used the arithmetic-teaching software itself. In 10th grade we learned BASIC (!) on antique Apple II machines (!!) - both the language and the machine and its OS were almost obsolete at the time, and NOBODY had these at home. In fact, most of the kids probably did not have a computer at home at all! But the ideas we learned were (or at least supposed to be) universal. In 11th grade we learned Turbo Pascal on DOS. Windows (3.1) was already available, and common, at the time, but it wasn't considered "pchitut kavod" not to study on it. We never studied MS-Word, or any word processor, when I was at school. Kids were free to use it (or whatever word processor they had) to write schoolwork, but nobody tried to force a specific set of tools on them. -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Jan 2 2003, 28 Tevet 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |If glory comes after death, I'm not in a http://nadav.harel.org.il |hurry. (Latin proverb) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
