[geeks] geeks Digest, Vol 86, Issue 11

[Lionel Peterson]

On Jan 17, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>  
wrote:

> Unfortunately most "computer lessons" in schools don't teach concepts.
> They are "monkey training" most of the time. They teach to memorize.
> They do not teach how to abstract from the detail to the general and
> how to deduce from the general to the detail.

That is our complaint with our users. When we make a new software  
image it not only has to have, for example, word 2007 on the start  
menu/taskbar, it also has to be in the same spot, since the teacher  
says things like "click on Word 2007, it's the fourth item in the  
start menu/taskbar" if it is somewhere else the teachers complain 'on  
behalf' of their students.

On a related note, we are about to make our applications available for  
use by students from home over remote desktop/terminal server web  
interfaces... That will be fun!

Lionel