If you can only use a word processor because it looks like the one you have been trained on then you are computer illiterate. That’s not something a school should proliferate.
Well that’s undeniable. But, coming back to this school, do you think that they could afford licenses for the latest MS Office and or MS Windows? No they would teach with one or more generations ago where things are laid out and function totally different.
So you get the same issues you are complaining right now and nobody gained anything.
Or, teach them both LibreOffice and Office 365. They’ll have more technical literacy by learning to adapt to new situations rather than relying on clicking this button here and that button there.
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Because they can’t learn to put words and numbers in excel. How skillful do you think they’re gonna get from one semester in excel?
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Good luck teaching middle schoolers how to use a pivot table when there’s barely enough time to teach the basics of Excel’s convoluted user interface.
Maybe they don’t give up that easily.
You can learn Windows pretty quickly. Also this is much better than giving students locked down Chromebooks
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I’ve never ever heard of that happening. It was a problem 5-8 years ago but now its not expected.
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There’s OpenOffice and LibreOffice. There’s even Google Docs or Office 365, which run in a web browser.
Microsoft Office for Windows is about as useful as manufacturer-installed bloatware these days.
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Wouldnt you keep them computer illiterate when you teach them exclusively how to use Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office?
Also that’s a big jump to assume that I would be against financial literacy.
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If you can only use a word processor because it looks like the one you have been trained on then you are computer illiterate. That’s not something a school should proliferate.
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Well that’s undeniable. But, coming back to this school, do you think that they could afford licenses for the latest MS Office and or MS Windows? No they would teach with one or more generations ago where things are laid out and function totally different.
So you get the same issues you are complaining right now and nobody gained anything.
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Well apparently bit in this case as it’s too unimportant, as you said.
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Or, teach them both LibreOffice and Office 365. They’ll have more technical literacy by learning to adapt to new situations rather than relying on clicking this button here and that button there.
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Apparently, I did not. Or I might have replied to the wrong comment. Either way, my apologies.
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