[Gllug] App development for children

[Avi Greenbury]

David L Neil wrote:
> BTW let's not be too arrogant about FLOSS in this. Learning the
> mechanics of OOo Writer is no better than memorising the keystrokes for
> MS-Word! Tools is 'tools' and neither pkg does more than illustrate
> 'concepts'. Learning the concepts of word processing equips one to
> tackle either - or both - products, AND whatever other is thrown at you
> into the future!

This I can't argue with, but I think use of a word processor should be 
taught in the same way as writing itself is.

Writing large tracts of English in a word processor should, in my 
opinion, be taught in English lessons. Manipulating statistics in 
spreadsheets should be taught in statistics modules. IT teaching should 
really be about computing in the same sort of way that maths teaching is 
about maths.


>
> In short, learning concepts equips for 'change' whereas training targets
> only a certain, specific, and temporary environment.
>

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