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____/ Mark Kent on Friday 15 Jan 2010 11:28 : \____
>>> The problem here is that those folk in HMG making these decisions have
>>> so little technical knowledge that they are readily bamboozled by
>>> salespeople from Microsoft and elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Sadly, here, the money involved helps to maintain the corruption.
>>
>> It turns out now that Microsoft is involved here (and BECTA of course).
>>
>
> BECTA are completely corrupt and should be shut-down. Why on earth are
> they so keen to push old technology onto kids in schools? Kids should
> be taught about the technology future; Windows would be suitable for a
> history lesson, but not a technology lesson.
To clarify, "the Google way" has two aspects worth considering:
1. Google does not use Office internally, the employees mostly use GMail/Wave/Etherpad(deprecated)/Apps/Docs
2. Children must be taught METHODS of acquiring information
Re the skills in (2), kids cannot be expected to memorise menu items; that won't stay with them
and likewise, they will not remember data through rehearsal (e.g. history lessons). Kids must be taught how to
search for information, judge its validity, go through Wikipedia, contribute to it (peer review), etc.
People who don't evolve with the times will stay kids. It's shameful to raise an infantile generation
just so that some corporation keeps its revenue going.
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
--Albert Einstein
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