The problem will never be resolved if non teachers can't see it from the
teachers point of view, managing a class of 31 students all with different
abilities working at different paces and keeping to government guidelines as to
what they should be taught and get them through SATS tests in ICT to
On Sunday, 24.12.2006 at 20:34 +, Phil Bull wrote:
> > This is the problem.
> >
> > The kids are *not* being *taught* about word processors,
> > spreadsheets or databases. They are being *trained* to use MS Word,
> > MS Excel, MS Access etc.
> >
> > That's a very different thing, in my opin
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 20:08 +, SteVe Cook wrote:
> What people forget is that the teachers are taught MS Win , so that's
> what they teach!
Well, we can all see that somewhere along the line, the system went
horribly wrong. We can all see the problems; but we never outline any
solutions. Thi
Hi guys,
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 19:44 +, Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Sunday, 24.12.2006 at 09:37 -, Jonathan Lees wrote:
> > OO is offered as an alternative to MS Office, it sees about 2% usage
> > from students that have it at home. Our IT teachers will not touch it
> > as it involves rewriting
Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Sunday, 24.12.2006 at 09:37 -, Jonathan Lees wrote:
>
>> OO is offered as an alternative to MS Office, it sees about 2% usage
>> from students that have it at home. Our IT teachers will not touch it
>> as it involves rewriting worksheets for students which have all been
On Sunday, 24.12.2006 at 09:37 -, Jonathan Lees wrote:
> OO is offered as an alternative to MS Office, it sees about 2% usage
> from students that have it at home. Our IT teachers will not touch it
> as it involves rewriting worksheets for students which have all been
> based on MS Office. How
Hi everyone, I just joined the list and this is probably a good topic to
introduce myself. I'm an IT manager at a secondary grammar school, I use Ubuntu
at work for a DHCP/NTP/Proxy/Filter server and at home for other activities.
Our Desktops at school are XP Pro, they have various bits of Open
