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He could be teaching them philosophy or maths or literature or ethics. He's drawing a UI on a chalkboard by hand! What a world.

by sova 9y ago

mirimir 9y ago
Aren't computer skills a prerequisite for office work everywhere now? So maybe that familiarity with computer UI will help students later.
- sova 9y ago
  He is drawing a UI on a chalkboard by hand.
  - TomMarius 9y ago
    How does that change anything that GP said?
    - sova 9y ago
      There are numberless other topics that could be covered; growing food, learning how to travel on a budget, logical reasoning, inference, and yet he is wasting valuable class time by redrawing an interface that is drawn by a computer on a screen in less than a second. To me this is a paramount example of how education can be used for time wasting by professors to simply give the guise of knowledge. He could be explaining what bold is without redrawing the whole interface, he could explain what a justified alignment is without redrawing scrollbars, it's utterly unnecessary and not only points to the hysterical inequality of nations but also wastes valuable time that students could be using to critically analyze a profound quote or even a mathematical symbol. The fact that computers are so commonplace elsewhere does not make this forgivable or acceptable, this teacher is wasting time teaching nothing, doing something that a screen can do in a fraction of a second, and is somehow receiving international praise and acclaim when clearly any single organization that covered this story could have donated solar panels and computers to this classroom. Horrendous and deplorable.
- eeZah7Ux 9y ago
  > Aren't computer skills a prerequisite for office work everywhere now? Not at all, especially in places where paperwork is done on paper. > So maybe that familiarity with computer UI will help students later. 90% of the students will not have need or opportunity to use that word processor before the UI will change completely.
factsaresacred 9y ago
Philosophy tends to be higher up on the hierarchy of needs when your income is a dollar a day.

He could be teaching them philosophy or maths or literature or ethics. He's drawing a UI on a chalkboard by hand! What a world.

by sova 9y ago

He could be teaching them philosophy or maths or literature or ethics. He's drawing a UI on a chalkboard by hand! What a world.

mirimir 9y ago

Aren't computer skills a prerequisite for office work everywhere now? So maybe that familiarity with computer UI will help students later.

sova 9y ago
He is drawing a UI on a chalkboard by hand.
- TomMarius 9y ago
  How does that change anything that GP said?
  - sova 9y ago
    There are numberless other topics that could be covered; growing food, learning how to travel on a budget, logical reasoning, inference, and yet he is wasting valuable class time by redrawing an interface that is drawn by a computer on a screen in less than a second. To me this is a paramount example of how education can be used for time wasting by professors to simply give the guise of knowledge. He could be explaining what bold is without redrawing the whole interface, he could explain what a justified alignment is without redrawing scrollbars, it's utterly unnecessary and not only points to the hysterical inequality of nations but also wastes valuable time that students could be using to critically analyze a profound quote or even a mathematical symbol. The fact that computers are so commonplace elsewhere does not make this forgivable or acceptable, this teacher is wasting time teaching nothing, doing something that a screen can do in a fraction of a second, and is somehow receiving international praise and acclaim when clearly any single organization that covered this story could have donated solar panels and computers to this classroom. Horrendous and deplorable.
eeZah7Ux 9y ago
> Aren't computer skills a prerequisite for office work everywhere now? Not at all, especially in places where paperwork is done on paper. > So maybe that familiarity with computer UI will help students later. 90% of the students will not have need or opportunity to use that word processor before the UI will change completely.

factsaresacred 9y ago

Philosophy tends to be higher up on the hierarchy of needs when your income is a dollar a day.