By Tom Espiner
Published: Thursday 10 January 2008
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Simon
Location
Cumbria
Occupation
IT
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I see Gareth Evans falls into the usual trap of thinking that teaching computing is about teaching children how to use a number of pieces of software.
Yes, using the software should be a PART or that, but it's more important to teach them the fundamentals. If they understand the principals behind various technologies, then they should be able to adapt to whatever they are faced with in the future - instead of knowing only how to use one software package from one vendor and being totally lost and ill equipped when they find themselves faced with something else.
When Vista was released I discussed the issue of i...
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When a kid comes out of school and tries to get a ...
Gareth Evans
Gareth - given that 65% of Silicon.Com readers are...
Karen Challinor
I see Gareth Evans falls into the usual trap of th...
Simon
Kick computers out of the classroom.
IT in educat...
Anonymous
"but it's more important to teach them the fundame...
Rob
What a load of ancient minds.
If the Education Ag...
Anonymous
Hmm the biggest reason not to use Office 2007 is p...
Joe Whitehead
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