It is, unfortunately, schools that often promote the continued use of
yesterday's tech, instead of encouraging kids to think ahead to tomorrow's
tech. I've seen smart kids turn out better work, more quickly, with a
smartphone and free apps that they downloaded in the last week, than
masters-degreed "highly qualified" teachers running photoshop and media
creation software of any stripe on the latest whizzy Mac or Windows PC.
It's a sad fact that the majority of so-called "highly qualified" teachers
I have ever met still do not know how to properly create a document using a
word processor in such a manner that it can be easily revised and edited
later. This includes those who have been teaching the subject for years.
Nor, it turns out, do most other folks. This is, like problem reporting, a
result of using it in the way they *think* it should work (usually based on
experience with a typewriter), rather than learning the way it DOES work.
When I have taught, informally, about how to use a word processor, I
repeatedly make a few statements:
1. A computer is NOT a typewriter.
2. More than one consecutive space is always an error.
3. Unseparated consecutive use of any formatting character (tab, enter,
etc.) is most often an error.
4. Write first, format when done writing
I'm quite sure there are a few more, but those are the ones I almost always
have cause to mention.
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Scott
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Indeed - finding myself in classrooms over the last couple of years with
> mixes of iMacs and Windows machines and helping students with Photoshop.
> I'm a substitute but they give me Photography classes when they come up.
> The subject is taught by art teachers, the kids get way ahead of them very
> quickly and they are utterly unconcerned about the platform. There's the
> usual lower third cohort who struggle but the rest just get on with it and
> the platform is transparent.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Author/Publisher:
> The SLR Compendium,The TLR Compendium
> http://www.soultheft.com/storehouse_photopublish/
>
>
>
> On 19/06/2014, at 3:47 AM, Scott Gomez wrote:
>
> > Third graders routinely
> > understand Mac, Windows or Linux in less than a day with greater facility
> > than those "teaching" them. They switch from one device to another--and
> > from one program to another--easily. It's been my opinion for some time
> now
> > that this means a huge change in the landscape of computing that many of
> > the current major players will not survive--at least not in the way we
> see
> > them at present.
>
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