____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 15 January 2008 16:31 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Something new under the Sun
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>>| But all that could now change. According to a computer teacher in a Tel
>>| Aviv high school, "even though the software world offers a multitude of
>>| alternatives, to date we have used Microsoft products almost exclusively.
>>| That is very frustrating, not least because in some cases the open source
>>| developments are better than those of the closed source."
>>|
>>| This teacher says that following the agreement with Sun, "schools will find
>>| it legitimate to use additional products and work environments. What this
>>| means is that if we expose students properly to the range of options, they
>>| may prefer non-Microsoft products in the future."
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>> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/939224.html
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> Yahoo! Even more sense dawns. Education starts to separate itself from
> Microsoft, stops teaching "how to use MS Office" and offering "Windows
> courses" and starts to teach "computing".
>
Published days ago:
MP: Children must be taught IT security
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| The UK government has said that young people need to be educated about IT
| security.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39292057,00.htm?r=3
I can still remember the 2006 article from the BBC about 3-year-old children
being taught Excel.
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