I'm sitting here in 4th period science in Mr. Adcox's room at the good ol' Gettys Middle School, with a shiny new laptop that our tax money has been spent on. We have "mobile computer labs" here at Gettys, which are big carts filled with bunches of laptops for the teachers to use. I can only wonder how much our school spends on computers (and not to mention promethean boards).
But what really surprises me is how technologically inept half my fellow classmates are. We are growing up in a world of computers and some people don't even know how to open Microsoft Excel! It's like a magic trick when you press the "merge and center" button.
That was our class assignment today. Make a table on Excel. Then make a bar graph. That simple. And there were still issues...
It's almost torture to watch the teachers with technology...
Let's hope they start picking it up quicker, or we'll have a lot of lost mice in a world of robots.
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I'm probably going to sound really old for saying this, but I didn't learn how to use Microsoft office programs until I took computer lab in High school. It must be getting to the point where they feel it's necessary (Which I think it is)to teach those kinds of programs at an earlier level.
Now onto the teachers. They probably are just learning it as they teach you. I don't know how long the middle school has been teaching these programs, so I really can't judge based on that. But I agree with you that the teachers should have already a basic knowledge of the programs.
Sorry. I just had a huge rant there. haha.
What were the computer's shiny level? And your metaphor was cool at the end, except you used world instead of maze... wait, that doesn't make much sense either.
the computers were quite, quite shiny, i have to say.
but i'm sitting in school now (again), this time on a regular ol' desktop in the library, and I'm experiencing an almost replica of the same experience. The girl who I'm sitting next to is thanking me like I saved her life because I showed her the "in front of text" word wrapping on Office Word.
and when I showed her the column button... you would have thought I dragged her out of a freezing river.
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