[REBOL] Re: Teaching Rebol => was:{Re: Re: Parsing comment}
From: al:bri:xtra at: 29-Sep-2002 11:50
Tim wrote:
> <sigh>We are going beyond the school district here... I'm disheartened
> to report that the Human Services profession here is very anti-
> technology and has turned down many opportunities for tekkies to
> help them.
> Example: We have a very high suicide rate among teen-agers here,
> and when several of us local programmers offered to build software
> to help crisis line staffers, we got no takers ... just one
> sad example
> </sigh>
For the local high school where I work in the school term (Y9 - Y13, 13 - 18
year pupils), I'll be installing a "Worry Web Site", which will be my
Rebol/Wiki (once I've got it's subdirectories working consistently well). I
got the idea from a NZ teenagers book, where the computer literate maths
teacher set up a Wiki-like software to assist students by providing a space
for anonymous cries for help, with a place for other students and
counsellors to respond. I'm lucky to have computer literate principal who
can see clear virtues for teachers and students, as well as money making
opportunities!
One really has to show schools how new software will save them money (or
even make them money!) and enable them to meet the legal obligations, and
assist teachers, parents, students.
Andrew Martin
ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/
