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Re:Ghana teacher drawing MS word on blackboard gets real com... by flukus on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:41AM (#16616692)
> For more than six years this computer teacher has been drawing interfaces on blackboard for his students as the school did not have the resources.

This is a nice story, but doesn't having a computer teachers in communities that can't afford computers seem like a waste of resources?

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Re:Ghana teacher drawing MS word on blackboard gets real com... by Maxious on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:11AM (#16616790)
It is a nice story but perhaps overstating the problem a little: "Showing his class how to use a PC posed a fundamental problem as the school’s only computer and his own personal laptop were both broken." https://news.microsoft.com/apac/2018/03/15/teacher-who-used-...
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Re:Ghana teacher drawing MS word on blackboard gets real com... by crooked-v on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:03AM (#16616765)
The point is to enable the kids to get entry-level work using computers elsewhere.
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