Randolph Since the beginning of last week I have been teaching Computer Literacy at an awesome high school in the north of Johannesburg. Since a number of my students are not particularly interested in computers, I have implemented a challenge where they get to ask me anything about technology. If I cannot answer them immediately, they go into a draw to win a 256MB iPod Shuffle, which I think is pretty cool.
What I don’t like is that some of them treat the class as a free period, which is going to change. Computers have become such an important part of our lives in business aspects (and personal of course), that you cannot afford not to learn anything when given the opportunity.
While I don’t believe machines will one day take over the world, it is important for us to understand them and use them properly to make our lives easier. And despite the children’s protestations, this starts with learning how to type a letter in Microsoft Word :-).