[OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

[Bob Sneidar]

It is frightening to think that so many "kids" grow up to be adults and NEVER form the thought, "Maybe I don't know all about...". What positions do they eventually come to hold where doing the wrong thing means damage, pain and suffering and even death to themselves or others? 

Maybe what we ought to be impressing constantly on children is the incredible amount of knowledge they do NOT know? Maybe on the first day of computer class we should be overwhelming them with information that is WAAAY over their heads, and tell them that the following morning there will be a quiz on it. Then next morning tell them there is no quiz, but you do not ever want to hear the phrase, "I know all about..."

Bob


On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Richmond wrote:

> Certainly no flies on you!
> 
> Far more important, to my mind, is the fact that kids nowadays keep telling me they "know all
> about computers". Then I turn on the computers in the school and they ask me where Windows
> Explorer is, and when I explain that these computers work with something called Linux they say
> "but everybody knows that computers cannot work without Windows".
> 
> I wonder how many operating systems there are, apart from Windows, currently available to
> run bog-basic PCs?