Women in Technology

Article:		OS 9, Mine, All Mine
Subject:		Horses for courses
Date:		2004-07-24 00:45:13
From:		sanchonevesgraca
As far as children are concerned using an old Mac is not really suitable and is actually a disservice for their education. Today's children belong to the first generation where most or all intellectual goods are delivered and manipulated digitally, and this requires a modern computer. Of course, one can decide to ignore technological developments and stick to what one is comfortable with. Such as paying high telephone bills because of wanting to 'save' and not use iChat...

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• Horses for courses
  2004-07-26 03:06:43  Giles Turnbull | [View]
  
  
  I disagree, sngraca. I think children benefit from limited use of any computer system while they are still pre-school age; at least it gets the used to the concept of a computer, a keyboard and a mouse. My two-year-old can already pick out the letter B thanks to learning it from my computer keyboard!
  
  And older children should be exposed to a variety of computers, too, just so they understand that computers are varied! Most schools (here in the UK, at any rate) tend to teach a limited range of IT skills, usually on Windows networks. When my son is old enough to go to school, I want him to know that Windows is just one choice among many.
  
  The computer I'm using to type this post now will be ancient history by then (hey, it's a G3 iBook, it's almost ancient history *now*) but I hope he will be able to tinker with it and get a feel for how computers have changed since he was born.
  
  Heh, he'll also be able to play with my super-cheap NeXTStation too, and find out how computers have changed since *before* he was born :)