To quote the poet - "Bugger all" I work in a school, and the typing is done in MS Word 97. It will stay as MS Word 97 till the machinery catches fire and dies... because of the investment in teacher training, textbooks, and user-experiences.
Have you ever seen a platform or version or program neutral typing textbook? If you did it would go like this... "Welcome to YourTypingProgram... you can probably hit keys in order to make words, but after that it varies based on what software you have." This is the same reason we are stuck with obsolete email software (Inbox client for hExchange)... the bill for teacher relief to attend training was in the order of $5000. So we're stuck with it :-( On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 14:59, Yuri de Groot wrote: > On Thu, 02 May 2002, you wrote: > > >>I personally doubt that you can teach an old "dog" too many new tricks. > > >> > > >>It will happen probably over such a long time that you will have a > > >> generation rollover at the same time (which takes roughly ~25 years. > > > > That's the time frame I had in mind as well... > > So how many teachers out there are teaching kids > non-OS-specific computer skills? > Out of curiosity, are any such teachers subscribed > to this list?
