On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> 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.
Hi Nadav,
A bit has changed in eleven years. I suspect that you experience is no
longer relevant. All the schools have Windows. The kids have windows at
home. The Windows vocabulary has entered our daily Hebrew speech. My kids
(all 10 of them) had to submit a portion of their homework assignments in
doc format (Gush Etzion school system) for the past four years. My wife
is in a masters program at Touro College and Beit Morasha where the
homework assignments are distributed in Word and the homework must be
submitted in Word. I suggest that you actually go try to talk to these
people about Linux and see what happens.
There is also persistent institutional resistance to Linux at varous
places in the relevant ministry.
Regards,
- yba
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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