[nzlug] open source in NZ schools

[Andrew Farago]

On 31/01/2007, at 9:56 AM, Vik Olliver wrote:

>
> Is it just me, or it there something fundamentally flawed about  
> teaching
> kids to use a specific application rather than the concepts of that
> genre of application? Particularly if the specific application  
> concerned
> is probably obsolete already and certainly will be dead by the time  
> they
> leave school.
>
> Vik :v)

What can I say?
Last year we had a big fight because a teacherstill wanted to us a  
GIS application which was written for windows 3.1
Accounting means MYOB. Writing music is means Sibelius. Art =  
photoshop. etc.

We had a proverb; Money is talking, dogs are barking. :-(

Andrew


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