Hi The problem in teaching computers at school is the same as the one in teaching History Chemistry ..(anything other than the three 'R's ). LACK OF PURPOSE. The students simply are not informed how all this stuff fit in with the real life. Getting marks in exam is a 'purpuse' but it dosent get far. Being interested in all things related to computers I had installed different flavours of linux 4 times in the last 1 year (in my small 4 Gb hd) only to delete the partition after a few days after the novelty value had worn off. But when a project for calculating pi (though purposeless itself ) forced me to use linux (because of the evercrashing windows which did not allow me to devote much of my mips to my calculations), I installed and started to use Linux seriously. What I suggest is that the schools should give one machine each (or even for two pupils) and let them alone with an official looking project for anything from an automated system for generating report cards to setting up an interactive class website. Pupils will pick up the skills requiured for the project from friends books or the internet. That way we will really learn something and enjoy it too. Yours truly, Sayan Chakraborti.
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