[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Brian Dunbar]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:53:57PM -0500, Brian Dunbar wrote:
>> I'm more distressed about them teaching 'Word'.  Not a MS bias but
>> observation that 'teaching office automation' usually involves
>> memorizing 'how-to' run MS Office and not, say, the broad concepts
>> behind the thing.
> 
> I don't know that it's EVER been about "broad concepts".  Today it's
> Word and Excel and PowerPoint.  15 years ago it was Wordperfect,
> Lotus 1-2-3, and DBase.
> 
> Bill
> 

I'll take your word for it.  We're both from Oklahoma but Jenks only had
 'a' room of computers and they were used to teach programming, IIRC.
Of course that was 20+ years ago, not 15.

But yes, broad concepts.  If I'd been motivated along those lines I
could have taken all of the 'office' courses offered and been able to
land a position as, oh, a junior bookkeeper/administrative type after
high school.  The typewriters was just a tool, not the be-all-to-end-all.

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