On Sunday, 24.12.2006 at 09:37 -0000, 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. However whilst Writer and Spreadsheet does'nt > cause problems, the database package does. [...]
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 opinion, and not at all good. Dave. -- Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - freenode: davee All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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