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Contributor name: digiammarco

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Contributor since: Sep 18, 2006

Last seen: Dec 13, 2006

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The beauty of pressing buttons

digiammarco thinks: Touch the button that says "subscribe to our services" and they immediately pick up. Touch the connection to customer service and go through nightmare. This is what makes me and many people HATE some companies...

Intrusive advertising

digiammarco thinks: Agree. Ultimately, creativity is about making people want to see your ads.

Out of control email inbox

digiammarco thinks: Gmail has indeed changed my e-mail life, and I can only hope the corporate world endorses it. We should be able to Google for anything, shouldn't we?

Do self service options help you?

digiammarco thinks: I endorse view A, knowing that it is today only wishful thinking. "Self service" has become a cost cutting exercise, rather than a service one...

Measures

digiammarco thinks: We all know it will take ages.... why don't we start right away?

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powerpoint paralysis

jonathanmarks thinks: I find it amazing that we're still using Powerpoint, a program that hasn't changed much in a decade and where putting video and audio inserts is still a nightmare. I belong to the school that believes Powerpoint is great in illustrating a powerful talk. But it cannot save a bad presenter in a million years.

Are schools necessary anymore?

JBonnin thinks: Socialization at school is not about playing games or obtaining results only. It´s about overcoming self induldgence and bad habits often transmitted by parents themselves.

The daily contact with other children who are not necessarily friendly is fondamental to make the child become able to question and decide independently from parents and willing to overcome obstacles. It is the only way to form independent responsible adults.

Are schools necessary anymore?

JBonnin thinks: Social interaction is absolutely necessary in early stages of life. No question of suppressing it! It´s at school, among real people, that an individual learns to face the world.

Are schools necessary anymore?

Simpler thinks: Tools to enable remote learning can only be a supplement to real interaction, I think. Kids need the full bandwidth of real human interaction to understand all the social rules and unwritten codecs necessary to do well. They could not pick this up, if they were only accessing the school via a device at home.

As other discussions in this forum show, kids already have problems with getting away from their PCs and gaming devices. This would mean that they would stay in front of it all day.

It is a different story when used as a supplement to normal schools, e.g. when doing homework. Can also be used for kids that for some reason are unable to attend a normal, physical school.

Does Simplicity wear a tie?

NCalabro thinks: Subconsciously, I agree that a tie gives an individual a sense of seniority and a certain business-like quality that other attire can not portray, but in this day and age, professional dress is moving more and more towards causal business dress.

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Are schools necessary anymore?

zen thinks: I am a teacher so this might came a bit by surprise but I don't think a kid needs to be in a schoolbuilding to develop social skills. If only dad and mom and the rest of the family were more at home, these sociall skills can be learned in and arround the house.

What is tought in school is highly overrated and so is it effectiveness. Also

The whole eductional programm should became a big online game where you learn all kind of skills on your own pace from you own surrounding.

Nothing wrong with kids spending hourse behind a computer, it all depends on what they are doing there. of course they will go out and play, that is something natural. The bad thing of school is that we take that out of their system.

Internet Simplicity

donnam thinks: I don't think there is any real cause for changing it at this point. The people who are interested in using the web are learning the web. They may not know to call it a URL, but they know what a URL is in essence. All of my grandparents use the web, some form of messenger, one even has a blog set up! There will always be those who shy away from new technology no matter what sort of naming is used.

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