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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