[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Joost van de Griek]

On 4/11/07 7:53 PM, Brian Dunbar wrote:

> I'm more distressed about them teaching 'Word'.  Not a MS bias but observation
> that 'teaching office automation' usually involves memorizing 'how-to' run MS
> Office and not, say, the broad concepts behind the thing.
> 
> Contrast that with the typing and 'office automation' courses I took in high
> school as 'just in case' courses.  We used IBM Selectrics and 10-key adding
> machines but what we learned was 'how to' manage the paperwork that runs a
> business.

Oh, it's been going on for a while. I remember being taught the use of
MS-DOS, WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3 and dBase in the mid-to-late eighties.
After all, that's what we'd be using in The Real World.

Shah, right. Amazing that they haven't learnt from that, huh?

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