{"id":38011,"date":"2011-08-29T07:50:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T07:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/training-children-to-use-microsoft-office-is-the-2\/"},"modified":"2011-08-29T07:50:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T07:50:24","slug":"training-children-to-use-microsoft-office-is-the-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/training-children-to-use-microsoft-office-is-the-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Training children to use Microsoft Office is the contemporary equivalent of the touch-typing courses that secretarial colleges used to run for girls in the 1940s and 1950s \u2013 useful for a limited role in the workplace, perhaps, but not much good for life in the modern world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>John Naughton on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2011\/aug\/28\/ict-changes-needed-national-curriculum?cat=technology&amp;type=article\">the importance of hands-on tinkering in children\u2019s education<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/curiositycounts.com\/post\/9502691502\/the-current-curriculum-undermines-the-authority-of\">curiositycounts<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Training children to use Microsoft Office is the contemporary equivalent of the touch-typing courses that secretarial colleges used to run for girls in the 1940s and 1950s \u2013 useful for a limited role in the workplace, perhaps, but not much good for life in the modern world. John Naughton on the importance of hands-on tinkering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1416,169,180,1539,1653,1652,1655,1654,208],"class_list":["post-38011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-children","tag-creativity","tag-education","tag-emergent-digital-practices","tag-hands","tag-john-naughton","tag-microsoft-office","tag-microsoft-word","tag-technology","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9T5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}