----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Apple2list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 10:41 PM Subject: Re: Destroyed computers
> > > > I've always thought that school districts made their computer purchase > decisions for the year based on the Super Bowl's commercials. My favorite line from > a school board member telling parents and teachers that the district was > really going to invest in the school by buying new computers to replace the Apple > II computers so students could learn word processing. I had stayed quiet for > three hours, that entire evening, but THAT was the last straw. I informed her > that students had been able to do word processing, along with databases and > spreadsheets, for the last twenty years on the Apple II computers. We didn't > need new computers; our rooms only have four outlets, and maybe three of them > work. > > JaY > Resource Teacher What the school board member was actually trying to say is that kids can use microsoft office to learn word processing , same program everybody else uses. I think schools are trying to teach kids to be conformists, not to be free thinkers and to learn tasks in different ways. If there are 5 ways to do something your kid must do it the 1 way the teacher thinks it has to be done (or is told it has to be done by the school board). I worked with an older guy who said his kid can only tell time with a digital clock, how lame is that. Are kids taught to learn anymore or just recite stuff back to the teacher? -- Apple2list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Apple2list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/apple2.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/apple2list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
