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echo: educator
to: SHEILA KING
from: MATT SMITH
date: 1996-06-16 18:03:00
subject: Re: Technology In The Classr

SK> One of the teachers, a generation older than I, had purchased a 
SK> computer
SK> quite a number of years back. She really only uses it for small
SK> word-processing tasks and for doing her grades. She was telling me 
SK> how
SK> afraid of the machine she was at first, and how her heart used to 
SK> beat
SK> faster when she went near it. I think she was embarrassed to admit 
SK> this.
SK> She said that her husband had to write down directions for her about
SK> exactly what buttons to push and what key sequences to use just to 
SK> turn
SK> on the machine and get to her gradebook program.
    Sounds like a client of mine.
    He has a little card next to his PC detailing step-by-step just how to 
get to various things he constanly uses.  He knows the computer is very 
useful and has at least $7,000 in software for it, but he's 
computer-illiterate.
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