On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:54:15 +0100 LeeGroups wrote: >> Secondly, the majority of children don't care >> about how a computer works (any more than they care how a car works) >> - they just want to use it. > > Yes, this is very true. Even my own kids aren't bothered despite the > prodding from me. The kids at my school that I've discussed this with > can't get there heads around the fact that they could write their own > version of Angry Birds if they wanted to...
Bit of a broad generalisation. There are plenty of kids who would jump at the chance to learn how a car works... that's one of the reasons that automotive engineering courses are quite so popular at vocational colleges. Unfortunately the kids don't get a good grounding in what *can* be done with a computer - from primary school upwards, the vast majority of kids only ever have a very basic level of "Office" skills type IT classes and rarely is the opportunity to discuss other side of IT presented. I completely disagree that kids aren't interested in how a computer works or what you can do with one. They are never presented the opportunity to even entertain the thoughts that a computer can do more than just "office" and "games". In short, it is *not* the kids fault. As an example, my 6yo daughter is really quite into computers - she loves watching/helping me pulling them apart and fixing them up, she knows that the movies that play on her laptop aren't "on" her laptop - she has to turn the mediacentre on first (we haven't got around to setting up a NAS/home server yet), she is desperate to have her own website, etc, etc. What has she been doing at school in IT? I doubt any of the things that I do with her! Grant. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
