13 May
1998
13 May
'98
1:58 a.m.
<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.
Let me compress that:
Elementary school, how to learn. (language, reading, arithmetic)
Intermeadiate school, how to find answers to questions and communicate
them.
High school, take the first two to the next levels and add skills needed
to find paying work.
Computers are a part of life and M$ stuff is unfortunatly reality we live
with every day. The unfortunate part is I meet kids at the grocer that
play doom, surf the net and can't count change.
Allison
13 May
13 May
3:37 a.m.
Allison J Parent wrote:
Computers are a part of life and M$ stuff is
unfortunatly reality we live
with every day. The unfortunate part is I meet kids at the grocer that
play doom, surf the net and can't count change.
Well, the clerk behind the counter may not be able to either, as the
machine does all the work for them ;) I remember those machines that
spit out the coinage part of your change appearing back in the
late-60's.
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http://www.crl.com/~mor/
7:17 a.m.
Greg Troutman wrote:
Allison J Parent wrote:
And it's not the technology thaqt makes them that way either - it's the trade
off of using the machine to actually do the mental work instead of knowing how
by hand first and then using the technology to enhance and speed up the
knowledge. My buddy pulled his daughter out of the local public school over a
dispute of using calculators in FIRST grade when the kids didn't even know how
to do most of the work in their heads or longhand. He put her into a Catholic
school here and she can use the calculator AFTER she's good enough with the
actual math by herself.
Remember when the LED HP calculators were banned from high schools and
considered cheating? My best friend was suspended over just the possession of
one in school, not even in class. Of course he's a few years younger than I as
I don't remember calculators being much less than the price of a good used car
when I was in school. They came down dramatically in 76 when I was going
through electronics training. I think the one I had cost $105 then and we
thought that was cheap.
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Computers are a part of life and M$ stuff is
unfortunatly reality we live
with every day. The unfortunate part is I meet kids at the grocer that
play doom, surf the net and can't count change.
Well, the clerk behind the counter may not be able to either, as the
machine does all the work for them ;) I remember those machines that
spit out the coinage part of your change appearing back in the
late-60's. 
2:07 p.m.
Russ Blakeman wrote:
Remember when the LED HP calculators were banned from
high schools and
considered cheating? My best friend was suspended over just the possession of
one in school, not even in class. Of course he's a few years younger than I as
I don't remember calculators being much less than the price of a good used car
when I was in school. They came down dramatically in 76 when I was going
through electronics training. I think the one I had cost $105 then and we
thought that was cheap.
I was forbidden to take my old Pickett out of its holster many times
back in my early 70s high school days. Never understood what
advantage it was supposed to give me in an EngLit test ...
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
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