Comments on: Tech in practice http://www.thecentreforschooldesign.org/2010/06/tech-in-practic/ Thu, 12 May 2011 14:36:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: PooterGeek http://www.thecentreforschooldesign.org/2010/06/tech-in-practic/comment-page-1/#comment-132 PooterGeek Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:05:24 +0000 http://www.thecentreforschooldesign.org/?p=1241#comment-132 It's sad that a state school has built a computer system around Microsoft Sharepoint, a proprietary, closed-source, non-standard Web publishing system---the opposite of everything that the public, free, open, standards-based World Wide Web embodies and that has made it such a success. It's sadder still that it should receive an award for doing so. Right now, in the US, the British-born inventor of the Web is planning to teach American students how to embed meaning in the structures connecting (genuinely) shared data objects on the WWW, with a view to open source wealth generation: http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/06/16/tim-berners-lee-and-group-of-boston-web-gurus-leading-new-mit-class-to-get-linked-data-movement-to-the-market/ Meanwhile, British students are being taught to use restrictive and already-obsolete technologies that break the Web and exclude users. It's depressingly appropriate that application forms for jobs at Forest Hill on the school Website are Microsoft Word documents. It’s sad that a state school has built a computer system around Microsoft Sharepoint, a proprietary, closed-source, non-standard Web publishing system—the opposite of everything that the public, free, open, standards-based World Wide Web embodies and that has made it such a success. It’s sadder still that it should receive an award for doing so.

Right now, in the US, the British-born inventor of the Web is planning to teach American students how to embed meaning in the structures connecting (genuinely) shared data objects on the WWW, with a view to open source wealth generation:

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/06/16/tim-berners-lee-and-group-of-boston-web-gurus-leading-new-mit-class-to-get-linked-data-movement-to-the-market/

Meanwhile, British students are being taught to use restrictive and already-obsolete technologies that break the Web and exclude users.

It’s depressingly appropriate that application forms for jobs at Forest Hill on the school Website are Microsoft Word documents.

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