It's not the tool my friend it's the agenda. I was talking to educators
this morning at different times. One is a PhD in the school of business,
Marketing and the other in the Earthquake Center, no sure what school that
is a part of?
Both were talking about the lack of caring by the youth today. All the
students want is the diploma without putting in the work required to
actually do it. The marketing educator was pretty vocal about the total
lack of training that the students have today vs. ten and twenty years ago.
He is retiring at the end of this semester.
The earthquake perspective was a little different. He grew up in the do it
yourself electronics age. Where you got parts and you put them together,
Realistic ring a bell anyone? His point was that the imagination is stifled
by the over programmed parents with soccer practice to drive through food
then on to scouts. That our youth's minds were not allowed to develop
interests outside of the parents programming. Model rockets or remote
control airplanes are not "team" oriented so they are not seeing the #s
today like they did 20 years ago.
So when you say it’s a computer and the OS / Programs I have to say no.
It's the society. We are lazy living at the top of the heap. Everything
has to be given to our kids to prove that they will have it better then we
did. I just think that its 'ADD' for adults. They can't keep their
attention on their kids so they farm that out to anyone they can today.
Stephen Russell
DBA / .Net Developer
Memphis TN 38115
901.246-0159
"A good way to judge people is by observing how they treat those who can do
them absolutely no good."
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Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 8:26 PM
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Subject: [OT] Shift
I wasn't sure if this was [OT] or [NF], but just to be safe...
Watch this text-only video, and then re-consider the short-sighted
fools who think that we should be training our school kids on PowerPoint and
Windows and Excel.
http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift
We should be teaching them how to think, and how to solve problems.
Not how to use tools that, if not already obsolete, will be obsolete soon
enough.
-- Ed Leafe
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-- http://dabodev.com
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