[nzlug] open source in NZ schools

[Mark Foster]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Vik Olliver wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 19:49 +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote:
>> They learn the concepts by using a specific application. You can't
>> teach the concepts except *by* using one application or another.
>
> You can't stop the parroting behaviour unless you use a variety of
> applications. Otherwise you end up with those people that Yuri met who
> get lost if the application icon is moved to the other side of the
> desktop.
>
> I Met Jim Gettys at LCA2007 last month and he pointed out that both
> MS-Word and OpenOffice are ludicrously over-featured for children.
> Abiword is about right. He's got a good point there.
>

I used Windows Write (predecessor to Wordpad) for most of my word 
processing up til secondary school.  Agree wholeheartedly.