Dave Ewart wrote: > On Sunday, 24.12.2006 at 09:37 -0000, Jonathan Lees wrote: > >> OO is offered as an alternative to MS Office, it sees about 2% usage >> from students that have it at home. Our IT teachers will not touch it >> as it involves rewriting worksheets for students which have all been >> based on MS Office. However whilst Writer and Spreadsheet does'nt >> cause problems, the database package does. [...] > > This is the problem. > > The kids are *not* being *taught* about word processors, spreadsheets or > databases. They are being *trained* to use MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access > etc. > > That's a very different thing, in my opinion, and not at all good. > > Dave. > > What people forget is that the teachers are taught MS Win , so that's what they teach!
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