Originally Posted by joebloggs
i'll pass, but if he wants to challenge my mother-in-law (whos near retirement age) , i'll put a few £ on her winning
(she lectures in accountancy at a uni in the phils, i know its a loaded bet, but i only gamble when i know i can win)
everyone thinks kids today are experts in computing and IT becuase they know how to turn a pc on or load winodws
make me, i knew more about puters 25yrs ago than 99% of kids today...
the good old days
So Joe you could program in HTML and use Macros in ms office progs 25 years ago blimey
Yesterday I helped take a Lesson at a School in London in I.T studies I was very impressed and most when offered extra work and to carry on in their break did!
They all created Basic Web pages and some of the work i was shown by the keener ones (who were not a small minority or the usual suspects i must add) was dam good.
They also had after school lessons/club where we got the pupils to write programs on some phones we brought in to the school, in Java. The rate at which they picked this up was incredible and the ideas and creatvity was great to see. Next week we are going to dip into Java and use it on some emedded I.T equipment (ie real life skills which this country badly needs not media studies experts). The teacher was worried we might leave some of the pupils behind but all have grasped the ideas, like i have written before we simply dont push our kids enough
If it had not been for the mini riot and attempted sexual assault which occured outside the door of the classroom i would have said it really changed my mind.
