Hot Diggety! Robert Hajime Lanning was rumored to have written: > > I have no kids, so yes, I am not really in touch with today's school culture.
I don't have kids but my buddies do. One (also a computer guy) was talking about his then 5? year old daughter's school. At the time, computer literacy was a required class, but she was bored to tears because of her extensive hands-on experience at home. Her proud daddy kept trying to get her to 'play nicely, anyway' to avoid problems with the school. Basically told her to just go with the flow. She sighed and said 'Okay.' Whew, crisis averted! But then I found out another friend or two had their 1 and 2 year old child already proficient with use of computers (!). That sure bowled me over, and I'm someone who grew up during the the golden age of the home personal computing revolution. That's one way to feel old. :-) (And let's not even talk about their reactions to the high quality graphics from the Atari 2600 VCS console... :-) "Wow! Man, how did you ever play games with worse than crude stick 2D graphics?" "Lots of imagination, son." The look on kids' face suggested they had just met someone from the stone age. Priceless!) Incidentally, about a year or so later, the first friend's daughter's school dropped the computer class from the curriculum. Their reasoning? Everybody knew computers by that point. That startled me, though I see their logic. Of course, that was a middle class suburban school; might have been different for inner city schools where you can't necessarily assume students has easy access to computers at home still. Pardon the digression; just an interesting trip down memory lane of seeing how things has changed between one's own childhood and the next generation's. I now chuckle appreciatively knowing what the questions and reaction will be when the younger generation's own children sees what they grew up with today! And _THAT_ is my favorite form of seeing Moore's Law in action. Anyway, back to the topic... computers truly are becoming such so routine and ubiquitous in today's society that kids hardly blinks an eye at using them in their various forms. An amazing time to be living in. But that's the extent I'm going to since I'm currently out of asbestos suits -- all previous suits having been successfully incinerated. ;-) -Dan _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
