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Teacher in Ghana has no computers so he draws Microsoft Word on the blackboard

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So you prefer to throw them into the MS mono culture pit.

Yes. This isn’t about open source idealism. You are teaching them job skills. MS Word is a useful job skill.

Understanding how to use any word processor is a job skill. LibreOffice supports Akan, an official language spoken in Ghana. Projects could translate the UI to Akan so even more people would be able to use it.

Re: Teacher in Ghana has no computers so he draws Microsoft Word on the blackboard

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He is drawing a UI on a chalkboard by hand.

How does that change anything that GP said?

There are numberless other topics that could be covered; growing food, learning how to travel on a budget, logical reasoning, inference, and yet he is wasting valuable class time by redrawing an interface that is drawn by a computer on a screen in less than a second. To me this is a paramount example of how education can be used for time wasting by professors to simply give the guise of knowledge. He could be explaining what bold is without redrawing the whole interface, he could explain what a justified alignment is without redrawing scrollbars, it's utterly unnecessary and not only points to the hysterical inequality of nations but also wastes valuable time that students could be using to critically analyze a profound quote or even a mathematical symbol. The fact that computers are so commonplace elsewhere does not make this forgivable or acceptable, this teacher is wasting time teaching nothing, doing something that a screen can do in a fraction of a second, and is somehow receiving international praise and acclaim when clearly any single organization that covered this story could have donated solar panels and computers to this classroom. Horrendous and deplorable.

Re: Teacher in Ghana has no computers so he draws Microsoft Word on the blackboard

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He should teach LibreOffice Writer instead so when actually some laptops arrive at the school they wouldn't have to waste money on MS product licenses.

This is exactly what I wanted to write. But some people can't be helped... Our school also forced us MS Office and I had to learn LibreOffice myself. I have been using OO/LibreOffice since I finished school and I am not looking back. It's sad that some people don't know about alternatives and are paying for Office360 regularly, they are like drug addicts.
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