Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Kids Can't Use Computers... And This Is Why It Should Worry You Date: 5 Sep 2014 20:36:50 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net QpWNdtKxbwfa5duZsDk/PAbnKIsinY/TlPf+gtsnBWfoV8DZPr Cancel-Lock: sha1:UFgR1kWRP75JWPVzvDNk6cuMpBI= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:4727 On 2014-09-02, Rich wrote: > http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/ > > The phone rang through to my workroom. It was one of the school > receptionists explaining that there was a visitor downstairs that needed > to get on the school's WiFi network. iPad in hand I trotted on down to > the reception to see a young twenty-something sitting on a chair with a > MacBook on her knee. > > I smiled and introduced myself as I sat down beside her. She handed me > her MacBook silently and the look on her face said it all. Fix my > computer, geek, and hurry up about it. You should have smiled and handed it back. -- Today is Pungenday, the 29th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3180 "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”. Groucho Marx.