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Kids Can't Use Computers... And This Is Why It Should Worry You

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  Kids Can't Use Computers... And This Is Why It Should Worry You Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-02 10:01 +0000
    Re: Kids Can't Use Computers... And This Is Why It Should Worry You Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-09-05 20:36 +0000

#4637 — Kids Can't Use Computers... And This Is Why It Should Worry You

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. I've been mistaken for a
   technician enough times to recognise the expression.

   ...

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On 2014-09-02, Rich <rich@example.invalid> 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.


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