Teaching Students Computers... (Semi-OT)

Guys! That is kind of skills we like to see and that only works at its best combeing good understanding of a computer is and ablility to read and understand data crowding into one's head. These days, Colleges are taking on new students who can't tell which end of a mouse is?! Apple and 8bitters of it's ilks that is found in K-12 has it's places because these are what excels at teaching kids materials but in high school level, we need to convert guys over to real things like windows and 486 boxens, unix and like using word processing and speadsheets, such yak yak..of most types not including 100% dumb M$ stuff.

But this is not happening at right rates of putting out computer-ready students for colleges and U's. :) Sad!

My wpm is not that good as you do but very respectable about 50-60 wpm but it get higher when I look at paper and blast away. But this is thanks to high school grade 9, In canadian, it is K-8 then 9-12/13 in high school when I did first thing when I took up typing on those Selectric (!!) whirring, bopping spinning silver golf-ball in '88. (Note, as I went thru H.S. in next few years, I saw them replaced with ibm new PS/2 30 boxens. And at one time I had my own used Selectric (what a concrept! but my interest is waning to computers stuff at that time). The wpm effected because I pause often and think, do in-stream editing then contiune. I'm more of action and thinker like this. Uh, during that time in HS, I picked up several old discarded machines including 3 MBC-555 Sanyos , Horrible boxens when I heard about them again here finally understood why. :) , and one TRS-80 III to play with BASIC book but I was total clutz at it (boring without disks even it had drives in it.) Even one time had Apple II+ but it somehow blew up and I couldn't fix it so it disappeared. sorry! :( Jason D. Snip for brevity... good thoughts and wonderful story of yours! email: jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca Pero, Jason D.