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On 16/10/06 23:28:08, Eion MacDonald wrote:
Dear Folks, 20061016
(Welcome to the list, BTW)
One major problem if trained only in MS office/Windows, is total inability to work with major organisations who use other software as the backbone of all systems,e.g.SAP I work in office of a 46,000 odd desktop worldwide company and all info is done through SAP. Schools training in "IT" is abysmal. We mainly have to tell newcomers how to forget their school training, do it our way
Reminds me of previous discussions on how IT should be taught using the Universal Computer - not the computer that happens to be on the desk today. The little 'experience' I had of computers at school was looking at the back of a Commodore Pet from a distance of about 20 feet (no pupils were allowed in the same room as 'it'), a BBC micro (excellent machine) that my mother obtained on loan as a teacher and the wonders of a ZX81. Variety, that's part of the answer.
:-)I despair when I hear of IT being taught as "how to use Excel" not "how to use a spreadsheet".
It's absolutely no use instructing people in solving problems with M$ machines, there needs to be an awareness of other systems, other solutions.
The "easy" methods of teaching people to follow pictures in tutorials like robots who get confused as soon as the icon theme is tweaked are the stuff of nightmares. It's pointless teaching people how to use XP or Vista, teach them how to use a computer so that when something replaces Vista they are still able to use the thing!
Same principle applies to technicians. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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