Judy Perry wrote: > But part of the reason why what you've said about educators (and > probably alot of them in higher ed) is likely true is that they don't know > diddly-squat about computers. What's worse is that they don't want to > know. As I keep hearing, "it's just a tool, like any other tool. I don't > need to know mechanics to drive my car so why should I know about hardware > and software to implement computers in education?" The people saying > these things have Ph.D.'s in instructional design and technology.
Some of the toughest tech support I do is for HyperRESEARCH, popular among academic sociology researchers. I speak with a lot of doctorates and candidates, and while they're all great sociology researchers their computing experience varies broadly. :) ... > This is the problem. After going through the trial-by-death of making two > projects in Director and having received ZERO instruction on how to use > it, these students-cum-teachers hate hate HATE authoring programs and > revert back to the comfort zone of using PowerPoint and Producer. Excatly. There are great opportunities in education markets, but perhaps few for scripting products. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
