=?iso-8859-1?q?tom=20potts?= madtom1999@yahoo.com wrote:
I dont know if you read the comment from an IT teacher who said it took several hours each week to mark multiple choice exams - Excuse me - your in IT automate it!! I dont do emoticons but there isnt one for the face I pulled at that one anyway!
I believe Edexcel's multiple choice exams are automatically marked -- and just look at the abusive reception they get! I think there are cases where educators are far too humble about their successes and outsiders far too critical about their failures.
I think the only real hope is to lead by example -start/go along to the local computer club - when the kids discover what they can get for free to run on old pcs and with luck in ten years time there will be people out there who will go into business and make computersand software usefull for the customer not the supplier. Or better still have as much fun as I do!
Yes, lead by example. Shall we go for an "invite the schools" season in the Autumn? Now is probably a bad time, as it can be hard to find people connected with schools at this time of the year. Anyway, talk about this at the meeting?
Another thing that people who are keen on helping schools use free software *may* be interested in is schoolforge.net, but I've some reservations about *that. Heart's in the right place, though.
MJR