[Gllug] App development for children

[Chris Bell]

On Thu 19 May, David L Neil wrote:
> 

> 
> Adding schools to the mix and expecting them to produce 'ready to work' 
> results is plainly a pipe-dream. As the previous poster said, 
> 'education' - not 'training'. I'd rather high school grads could read, 
> balance their bank accounts, cook, handle electrical appliances safely, 
> ... Yes I'd include typing/keyboarding, word processing, data(base) 
> processing (etc) in that list of basic knowledge for 'the modern world'. 
> After that learning a particular package is, ahem, child's play!
> 
   Some years ago now I was invited to a discussion at the BETT education
exhibition. One of the teachers attending explained that she had just been
appointed as head of IT and had come along to find out what it involved.
Have things improved?



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