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Re: learning the right things
by Sutoka on Wednesday 11/Jul/2007, @13:33

"They actually teach kids how to use computers in your country as a course?"

At least from my experience here in the US they don't teach kids hot to USE computers, only how to type, and maybe 'do specific things' (i.e. you do this, this, this, then that to do blah). At my high school there was an AP Computer Science class which was a LOT better (i.e. didn't act like the computer was a magic black box, then again pretty much everyone in that class was probably the people played Quake while "typing" ;).

It's a real shame that the school systems don't recognize how important computers have become to how the world operates and go into more detail with teaching about that (though maybe being required to learn how to sew is more important and useful in your daily lives, eh?).

"in here, they either choose a IT curriculum and have a bunch of them, or they have nothing"

At least at my high school we didn't even get that much of an option, it was 'typing' and if you even knew about it, 1 AP CS course (which is probably not that common to even have available).

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