[Info-vax] Confuse the kids!

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2017-07-20 kl. 11:35, skrev IanD:
> On Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 7:20:58 PM UTC+10, Jan-Erik Soderholm
> wrote:
>> Den 2017-07-20 kl. 11:06, skrev IanD:
>>> I tried to edumacate my kids by showing them VMS a few years back
>>> 
>>> I showed them a VMS login and showed how when you typed commands
>>> the system churned away and responded
>>> 
>>> They looked at me typing stuff, doing a show monitor for less than
>>> 30 seconds and said "Meh, how boring" and walked off
>>> 
>>> I managed to throw in a comment about that's sort of what your
>>> tablet and phone does in the background but they couldn't care
>>> 
>>> A few years before that I showed them a video of a large DC I had to
>>> go to once and showed them all the servers lined up and even one
>>> that was very colorful and had Google on the front of it - same
>>> response, they were just not interested
>>> 
>>> Very disappointing indeed :-(
>>> 
>> 
>> I can easily name 10 different things/jobs that would be very boring
>> to me also... :-)
>> 
>> Are your kids even interested in the IT technology at all?
> 
> They don't see IT as an enabler or as a lever one can use to create new
> things from. They just view it as something you use, little more
> 

A bit like me, it is the usage side of IT that I see as important.
Large parts of the technology is actually rather boring. :-)

> One wants to go into the medical field, another is involved in advanced
> programs with their artistic talents. One is interested in nature /
> animals and the other will probably had towards people management etc
> 

Sounds good. I would not be particulary worried... :-)

> I guess I've been a poor teacher at showing the creative side of IT. I
> can show it with math (my first love!) but in IT my creative side is
> waning
> 
> They are telling kids in school these days that learning a computing
> language is the new language...

Yes, a lot of people trying to catch up on the latest hype. Some
general knowledge might be good, but you do not need any specific
programming language knowledge until you actually are going to
work in that field.

> to be learning as opposed to when I went to
> school where they told you to learn Japanese, French, Italian, Chinese
> (it varies depending on who the world things is the next big focus)
> 
>>> Fortunally, the IT world is not the whole world.
> 
> Thankfully, this is very true !!!!
>