Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (2009)

Re:Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (2009) by trome on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @01:40PM (#13645941)

Pretty much this, teaching people "Office" or "Windows" is the wrong thing to do, the goal is to give someone tools to interact with a word processor, whether that be LibreOffice, MS Word, Etherpad Lite, or another word processor.

If you teach a narrow set of skills and don't train for flexibility, your robbing the students by pigeonholing their skills into only being applicable to a segment of the market.

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Re:Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (2009) by hashhar on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @02:11PM (#13646191)

I agree. Skills should be transferrable.

I've seen friends who can do mail-merge in Word but cannot navigate the internet on a desktop with the ease and speed I can because they learned mail-merge in school but never bothered to browse internet on a laptop/desktop (instead they use phones all the time).

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