Plea to Educators: Don't Force a Format Down Students' Throats

Posted by tracyanne on Jan 20, 2009 9:17 PM EDT
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There's a story making its rounds across the 'net about a woman who missed several online classes, and failed her semester, and she claims this happened because she bought a Dell laptop with Ubuntu on it - instead of Windows. She didn't know what Ubuntu was, and was surprised to see that her Windows software, such as Microsoft Office, didn't work. While this isolated case sounds a bit ridiculous, there is still a bigger problem here.

[This talks about the real problem, which of course was not the girl, not Ubuntu, or even Dell.. It's the entrenched view of the ISPs and the Educators, the, so called, facilitators of technology and learning. - Tracy]

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The story thus far... kenholmz 14 1,347 Jan 23, 2009 6:20 PM
Plea to Educators ColonelPanik 1 1,175 Jan 21, 2009 7:20 PM

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