Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (303 mails)

["Mark Evans" <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 10:07:01AM -0000, Adrian Wells wrote:
> 
> >I've often noticed many of those who work within 'fortress education'
> >like to believe they are the only ones who know anything about IT.
> 
> Boring! (nothing personal David, but it's one of my bandwagons!) The BIG
> problem with IT is that everyone who owns a PC thinks they know everything

They don't even need to own it, the PC paradigm is very much towards
"the person sat in front of it is God".

> about it. How sadly untrue this is (me included) that's not to say that we
> don't have our views! The sooner we remove PC's from the mass public and
> replace them with a 'box to do a job' the better (Computing used to be like
> 
> 
> witchcraft and I was one of the first advocates to get a computer into every
> home and demystify it, long before the PC - now I see the error of my ways)
> . The less tinkering and options to change the better. It you have a
> PlayStaion and a PC in your house, which is the most stable, the one you
> fiddle with or the one you can't. If we could stop the fiddling all would be
> smooth and headache free! Want a game? plug in a module, want a WP? plug in

With just about every other machine there is a demarkation line between
using it and maintanance/servicing type tasks.

> a module :-) I mean, tell me, why do you need to change the background
> colour of your folders and desktop? As for PC's in schools... The horses are
> slowing, time to jump off and take my tablets! :-)

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Mark Evans
St. Peter's CofE High School
Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109
Fax: +44 1392 204763