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Vanity

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

I was interested to see Dorothy’s post about searching (and tagging)

On the other hand the same teacher instinct was apalled by how little progress we have made teaching people how to search in a way that will return the information they are seeking. Particularly using appropriate key words to refine our searches.

I have been constructing [...]

Checklist

What does a computer user really need to know? I’m talking about the checklist of skills here that mean that a person can operate the piece of silicon in front of them.

This question is regularly thrown at me by schools that are doing their planning and want to know what skills they should be teaching [...]