Re: Taking tests
[email protected]
In a message dated 5/24/02 2:19:17 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
library had two or three Apple 2E's (I think those were the ones!) and we
would wheel them on carts to our room, team up into groups and spend time
"writing" simple programs (you remember the ones?
10 x=2
20 y=3
30 z=5
40 x+y
and so on.... ) It was all time consuming, boring, and worst of all, the
technology was obsolete with in months! I hated it, the experience put me off
computers for years! I didn't learn to use ANYTHING remotely related to a
computer for years. I thought it was all mumbo jumbo jargon too far advanced
for my addled brain. I never got the hang of how to write those old simple
programs, I heard all those hurtful comments from my teacher and peers about
how "easy" this all was, and even "babies" could get it, and a person had to
be really "stupid" not to understand and like to use computers. I was 26
before I touched a computer again, and I took to it like a duck out of water!
I can now fix minor problems (Somehow our cookies setting got changed and
today I reset it so I could get into our group, I would have never learned
how to do that if someone had said I had to learn it! I did it because I
wanted to sign into our group, and Yahoo said if I wanted to play with you
all, I had to fix some error, somewhere on my computer or Yahoo wouldn't let
me play!) Our computer is in our dining, craft, freezer, laundry, library
room, the kids sit down and play Sim Park, Lego Harry Potter creator,
Puzzlemania.... they sign on to the Internet and IM with their Grandma, and
send their Grandpa funny jokes, they scan and send pictures they have drawn
to Grandma and Grandpa, their Aunt sends them links to fun sites and pictures
of their Cousin. I didn't teach them how to do this, and neither did my
Husband. Moly (8) and Jack (6) somehow learned to do all this by watching,
reading the directions from the computer and trial and error. (the trial and
error part is how I learned to rescue a crashed computer!) I suppose if
either of them need to learn how to run a spread sheet they will! (I don't
know how to do one, if I need to learn I guess I will, until that day...) And
that is how I look at computer literacy for my kids, they at 8 and 6 are more
computer literate than I was at 14 so I suppose when they are my age they
will be computer geniuses, until then I won't worry.
~Nancy
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[email protected] writes:
> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:10:40 EDTI remember when computers first became "mainstream" in our school. The
> From: dbatiste7@...
> Subject: Re: Taking Tests
>
> Sometimes we think of computer experience as sending e-mail, drawing on
> paint
> and things of that nature. I am speaking of the other computer programs as
> well. Don't you think that kids these days should do more than just play
> games on the comp? Shouldn't they know how to do an excel spreadsheet? Add
> some information into Access and all of that good stuff. Most companies
> nowadays want someone who has this knowledge base of simple computer
> applications. Do you think this is leaning towards forced learning if the
> child has no interest in those things?
library had two or three Apple 2E's (I think those were the ones!) and we
would wheel them on carts to our room, team up into groups and spend time
"writing" simple programs (you remember the ones?
10 x=2
20 y=3
30 z=5
40 x+y
and so on.... ) It was all time consuming, boring, and worst of all, the
technology was obsolete with in months! I hated it, the experience put me off
computers for years! I didn't learn to use ANYTHING remotely related to a
computer for years. I thought it was all mumbo jumbo jargon too far advanced
for my addled brain. I never got the hang of how to write those old simple
programs, I heard all those hurtful comments from my teacher and peers about
how "easy" this all was, and even "babies" could get it, and a person had to
be really "stupid" not to understand and like to use computers. I was 26
before I touched a computer again, and I took to it like a duck out of water!
I can now fix minor problems (Somehow our cookies setting got changed and
today I reset it so I could get into our group, I would have never learned
how to do that if someone had said I had to learn it! I did it because I
wanted to sign into our group, and Yahoo said if I wanted to play with you
all, I had to fix some error, somewhere on my computer or Yahoo wouldn't let
me play!) Our computer is in our dining, craft, freezer, laundry, library
room, the kids sit down and play Sim Park, Lego Harry Potter creator,
Puzzlemania.... they sign on to the Internet and IM with their Grandma, and
send their Grandpa funny jokes, they scan and send pictures they have drawn
to Grandma and Grandpa, their Aunt sends them links to fun sites and pictures
of their Cousin. I didn't teach them how to do this, and neither did my
Husband. Moly (8) and Jack (6) somehow learned to do all this by watching,
reading the directions from the computer and trial and error. (the trial and
error part is how I learned to rescue a crashed computer!) I suppose if
either of them need to learn how to run a spread sheet they will! (I don't
know how to do one, if I need to learn I guess I will, until that day...) And
that is how I look at computer literacy for my kids, they at 8 and 6 are more
computer literate than I was at 14 so I suppose when they are my age they
will be computer geniuses, until then I won't worry.
~Nancy
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