Yesterday I did a talk at a school, talking about careers in information technology. We had a great time with a demo of texting colours to lamps in the lamps in the class room – yes, Text-To-Lamp - but it pains me to know that there’s little exposure locally to industry standard software for these children.
I live in an area of the country where legislation prevents school boards from promoting services that store personal information outside of the country, or some such nonsense. Now I get the privacy concerns – I’m a private person – but this really needs to change. It’s nonsense because teachers here slyly promote US-hosted services like Twitter and Prezi because they know that children need to be technically savvy. So sadly, overall in some places of the modern world, children here are not being exposed to great software and services and the skills to use them that can be taken into the job market place. So here’s the deal. It’s up to parents to do this in the home where they can……
Colinizer 