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Return-path: <@ARIZVM1.ccit.arizona.edu:[log in to unmask]> Received: from ARIZVM1.ccit.arizona.edu by CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU (PMDF V4.3-13 #2381) id <[log in to unmask]>; Wed, 03 May 1995 13:13:47 -0700 (MST) Received: from ARIZVM1.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU by ARIZVM1.ccit.arizona.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2072; Wed, 03 May 95 13:07:30 MST Received: from ARIZVM1.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@ARIZVM1) by ARIZVM1.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 8305; Wed, 3 May 1995 13:07:30 -0700 Received: from LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU by LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8a) with spool id 949534 for [log in to unmask]; Wed, 3 May 1995 16:06:39 -0400 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by atlanta.american.edu (8.6.12/8.6.11) id QAA39943 for [log in to unmask]; Wed, 3 May 1995 16:04:23 -0400 Received: from access3.digex.net ([log in to unmask] [164.109.10.6]) by atlanta.american.edu (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id QAA39936 for <[log in to unmask]>; Wed, 3 May 1995 16:04:20 -0400 Received: by access3.digex.net id AA10268 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for [log in to unmask]); Wed, 3 May 1995 16:03:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 16:03:36 -0400 From: Marty Solomon <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: developing IT use In-reply-to: Message of Wed, 3 May 1995 12:39:34 -0400 from <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Higher Education Processes Discussion (HEPROC)" <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list HEPROC-L <[log in to unmask]> Reply-to: "Higher Education Processes Discussion (HEPROC)" <[log in to unmask]> Message-id: <[log in to unmask]> X-Envelope-to: OMSARET, PSTEERE Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Approved-By: Carl Reimann <[log in to unmask]> Comments: To: [log in to unmask] I think that one of the great mistakes that we are making in education today is in spending too much time teaching students to use computers. It is much more important to teach them to read, write, compute,synthesize and exhibit critical thinking skills. We "waste" precious time on teaching elementary skills, even in higher education. These "computer skills" that they learn today will be totally obsolete even 3 years from now. Computers are now easy enough to use that most people can learn by themselves. Most secretaries learn WordPerfect for Windows by themselves. Windows and Mac software are getting to be quite intuitive AND the software will become even moreso in the near future. The danger that people talk about concerning the people who will be left behind is, I believe, largely a myth based upon unrealistic assumptions about the quality and ease of use of software. Look at it this way--unless software companies make software as easy to use as driving a car (and I think that this is the correct analogy) they will miss out on a huge market. That, they will NOT do! Marty Solomon <[log in to unmask]>