Did you know that only about 5% of the average house is actually load bearing? The rest is just fluff. Why are we wasting so much valuable material in houses?
My brother teaches in a district just outside Portland Oregon. My sister-in-law teaches in a district inside the Portland Metropolitan Area and my sister teaches in a suburb of Portland. Each describe very different experiences. My brother's school feeds over half the students 2 meals a day, provides clothing for 1 out of 5 students and requires a police 'resource officer' to be on site at all times for the safety of students and staff. My sister-in-law buys art supplies for her classroom to that students can each do their own art projects and are not forced into every project being a 'team expression'. Her school does not need to maintain a clothing supply and only feeds 1 out of 3 students in the morning meal program. My sister has parents donating materials to her school and volunteering to assist in extra-curricular projects.
My brother's school has the largest of the three student populations, my sister-in-law the second largest and my sister's school is the smallest, at about half the size of my sister-in-laws school.
I am certain that if the teaching staff were really good, and the curriculum superb, they would still fail to produce enough functional IT professionals given the social hurdles that the majority of their students face.
I may be dense, but it seems the number of people you can serve per km of infrastructure you have to install might effect cost.
According to Wikipedia:
US: 34.2 people/km^2
UK: 255.6 people/km^2
SK: 501.1 people/km^2
I am not a big fan of US telco's, but I think the numbers listed clearly indicate that the markets for the three listed countries are dramatically different.
Is this a sister study to the one finding that %80 of Americans don't trust research?
%40 of Americans believe God created the earth on May 18th 2012 when Facebook made its Initial Public Offering.
So, has anyone tried Moonlight yet?
It must not work very well, because the folk over at Sun doing JavaFX claim you just can't make a performant, web-based graphics engine for open platforms (not even their own OpenSolaris).
At the High School I volunteer at there are key applications that teachers feel they can not do without. One such example is Microsoft Publisher. This is a loathsome application that does not export to any other known publishing application, but is used to teach publishing in the school.:-(
We are making progress though. The school switched to Open Office this year for all but the business lab. I am working with the business lab teachers to get them familiar with Open Office so they can make an informed decision about what software to use in the future.
I have a 2000 VW Jetta TDI. It got better economy right up to around 50k miles. We run bio in it during the summer and then commercial diesel in the winter months.
Pulling a small utility trailer with all our kids stuff in it for camping it still gets 42 - 45 mpg depending on elevation change.
One more jaded than I might ponder that the reason for not including SSH and SFTP is to make it more painful for people not to use SharePoint; which MS believes is the only real way to share files and services on a network. (Other OS's need not apply.)
It seems to me that the question asked is actually a secondary one. I would think, "How should we introduce our children to technology?", is a more important and pertinent question. Sitting a computer, gameboy, television, revolver, or any other technology in front of a child and leaving the room will expose the child to the technology. But, maybe not in the desired manner.
Parental interaction with the child to help them ask the important questions and place the technology into their world in an appropriate manner strikes me as the important part of exposing children to technology.
As the father of a 5 year old and 7 year old I spend a lot of time pondering these questions. There is no silver bullet to the problem... kind of like all the other issues of growing up as a clever, tool using, monkey.:-)
One thing that is really needed is management who have both some technical ability and good management skills. In my experience the management in major US high-tech firms do not allow analysis and design to take place. We end up with ALL the people in the department being techs. Given this dumbing down of computer science in US firms, there is no need for a formal education. Most of what I learned for my CS degree I have been expressly banned from practicing.
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Did you know that only about 5% of the average house is actually load bearing? The rest is just fluff. Why are we wasting so much valuable material in houses?
My brother's school has the largest of the three student populations, my sister-in-law the second largest and my sister's school is the smallest, at about half the size of my sister-in-laws school.
I am certain that if the teaching staff were really good, and the curriculum superb, they would still fail to produce enough functional IT professionals given the social hurdles that the majority of their students face.
According to Wikipedia:
I am not a big fan of US telco's, but I think the numbers listed clearly indicate that the markets for the three listed countries are dramatically different.
Is this a sister study to the one finding that %80 of Americans don't trust research? %40 of Americans believe God created the earth on May 18th 2012 when Facebook made its Initial Public Offering.
So, has anyone tried Moonlight yet?
It must not work very well, because the folk over at Sun doing JavaFX claim you just can't make a performant, web-based graphics engine for open platforms (not even their own OpenSolaris).
At the High School I volunteer at there are key applications that teachers feel they can not do without. One such example is Microsoft Publisher. This is a loathsome application that does not export to any other known publishing application, but is used to teach publishing in the school. :-(
We are making progress though. The school switched to Open Office this year for all but the business lab. I am working with the business lab teachers to get them familiar with Open Office so they can make an informed decision about what software to use in the future.
I have a 2000 VW Jetta TDI. It got better economy right up to around 50k miles. We run bio in it during the summer and then commercial diesel in the winter months. Pulling a small utility trailer with all our kids stuff in it for camping it still gets 42 - 45 mpg depending on elevation change.
One more jaded than I might ponder that the reason for not including SSH and SFTP is to make it more painful for people not to use SharePoint; which MS believes is the only real way to share files and services on a network. (Other OS's need not apply.)
Parental interaction with the child to help them ask the important questions and place the technology into their world in an appropriate manner strikes me as the important part of exposing children to technology.
As the father of a 5 year old and 7 year old I spend a lot of time pondering these questions. There is no silver bullet to the problem... kind of like all the other issues of growing up as a clever, tool using, monkey. :-)
One thing that is really needed is management who have both some technical ability and good management skills. In my experience the management in major US high-tech firms do not allow analysis and design to take place. We end up with ALL the people in the department being techs. Given this dumbing down of computer science in US firms, there is no need for a formal education. Most of what I learned for my CS degree I have been expressly banned from practicing.