Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 15 January 2008 16:31 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Something new under the Sun
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| But all that could now change. According to a computer teacher in a Tel
>>>| Aviv high school, "even though the software world offers a multitude of
>>>| alternatives, to date we have used Microsoft products almost exclusively.
>>>| That is very frustrating, not least because in some cases the open source
>>>| developments are better than those of the closed source."
>>>|
>>>| This teacher says that following the agreement with Sun, "schools will find
>>>| it legitimate to use additional products and work environments. What this
>>>| means is that if we expose students properly to the range of options, they
>>>| may prefer non-Microsoft products in the future."
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/939224.html
>>
>> Yahoo! Even more sense dawns. Education starts to separate itself from
>> Microsoft, stops teaching "how to use MS Office" and offering "Windows
>> courses" and starts to teach "computing".
>>
> Published days ago:
>
> MP: Children must be taught IT security
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The UK government has said that young people need to be educated about IT
>| security.
> `----
>
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39292057,00.htm?r=3
>
> I can still remember the 2006 article from the BBC about 3-year-old children
> being taught Excel.
>
Yeah... still, in order to teach young people about IT security, I would
suggest that linux installation and usage would be a good call. Linux
is several orders of magnitude more secure than Windows.
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