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:Guardian Unlimited: Lesson Number One: Get Rid of Microsoft
Guardian Unlimited: Lesson Number One: Get Rid of Microsoft
May 16, 2005, 20 :30 UTC (13 Talkback[s]) (6949 reads)

(Other stories by John Naughton)

[ Thanks to Paul A. Rombouts for this link. ]

"Drive past any secondary school in the UK and you'll see an institution that is struggling. No: this is not a column about academic standards, dumbing down, bureaucracy, Ofsted or any of the other obsessions of the Daily Mail.

"In fact, many of these struggling schools are academically excellent. What they are having difficulty with is something much more mundane than teaching or learning. They are trying--and failing--to manage their IT systems..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
What you people seem to fail to understa ...   Our kids need to learn Microsoft.   
Gav Peters
May 17, 2005, 06:48:31
 
 It'll let the school concentrate on ...   Lesson One: Get Linux!!!!!   
I-Write-FUD@Paid-By-mircosatf
May 17, 2005, 08:34:30
 
The idea that students must learn how to ...   Concepts   
Louis Wu
May 17, 2005, 14:38:19
 
What you seem to fail to understand is t ...   Re: Our kids need to learn Microsoft.   
Andreas Mohr
May 17, 2005, 14:50:45
 
I use Linux everyday (and so does my wif ...   Re: Our kids need to learn Microsoft.   
John Adams
May 17, 2005, 14:59:53
 
> What you people seem to fail to unders ...   Re: Our kids need to learn Microsoft.   
Chris
May 17, 2005, 15:28:06
 
Windows and Office are not rocket scienc ...   A GUI is a GUI   
Bill Mason
May 17, 2005, 15:38:55
 
What you people seem to fail to understa ...   Re: Our kids need to learn Microsoft   
Ookaze BioACobol
May 17, 2005, 16:04:24
 
My comments are more for the use of comp ...   No excuse   
Joe Almeida
May 17, 2005, 17:53:51
 
Teaching kids to use non-MS products is  ...   It's the *teachers* that can't learn   
Rob
May 17, 2005, 18:17:19
 
Teach a child to read, they can learn to ...   Why teach particular software anyway?   
Bob Robertson
May 17, 2005, 18:58:24
 
I think that a few of you need to grow u ...   Kids really do need to learn Microsoft.   
Gav Peters
May 18, 2005, 09:51:02
 
Lots of people had to say things based o ...   Change and how hard it is to achieve it.   
Khan Md Ashraf
Aug 1, 2005, 03:46:02
 
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