> > Most school teachers don't know anything about computers - full stop. At
> > best they know how to use a few programs, but only after someone shows
> > them.
> Come on be fair, this is a very broad generalisation. How much
> did you know
> about computing before someone showed you? How many programs are you
> an expert in? Most teachers are teaching *using* technology not *about*
> technology, they don't need a deep understanding of the technology to do
> that.
i think that is a fair generalisation. at the very least, some knowledge is
essential, whose responsibility is it to make they have these skills? the
government? the school? the students?
"the students?" sound rediculous? when i was in high school, my year was the
first to be interested in 3 unit computing, 3 students, so they ran the
course. the teacher would come in and say this is what we have to learn, and
read out part of the curiculum, then we learnt it, and taught her...
nelson
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