Now, I can do mail merges, create pivot tables, and find information quickly on the web. In fact, in college, I could barely find anything on the web, because I had dial-up, and Google didn’t exist. Now, more than two decades after my first exposure to computers, I use Windows XP and Microsoft Office five days out of the week and also use FileMaker Pro and Mozilla Firefox, two programs I’d never used in college or high school. Somehow, though, I’ve managed to actually get jobs and function in them, sometimes even excel in them. In high school, I took one computer science course, which trained me in Pascal, a programming language almost no one uses now. Never was I taught to use Microsoft Office or any modern Windows interface.
I grew up in the 1980s using all sorts of computers that are out of fashion now (the colors were green and black or yellow and black on monitors), and finished my pre-university schooling before Windows 1995 was popular.
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Most of his examples have to do with changes in interface (Mac OS 9 is not like Mac OS X), but technology changes are far more drastic than mere changes in interface. In “Should students learn Windows? Or Mac? Or What?” Scott Granneman points out rightly that technology changes quickly. The idea is that most workplaces use Windows and Microsoft Office and will sometimes even require proficiency in certain Windows applications, so how would putting Linux and open source software in schools prepare children for using Windows software in the future?
Frequently, in online discussions of the putting of Linux and/or open source in schools, the idea of preparing children for the Windows-dominated workplace comes up.
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