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From: ins_atge@jhunix.UUCP (Thomas G Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: The future of simple BBS boards...
Message-ID: <5730@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 16:23:22 EST
Article-I.D.: jhunix.5730
Posted: Thu Dec  3 16:23:22 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 02:32:57 EST
References: <15695@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: ins_atge@jhunix.UUCP (Thomas G Edwards)
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr.
Lines: 16
Keywords: Computer Education, BBS, Telecommunications
Summary: BBS and Telecommunication Education


  Something I noticed lacking from my high school was -any- kind of
education about computer telecommunications, even relatively simple
things like "modem literacy"...the use of a modem to access BBS's.
I did take a course equivelent to a college intro to computer course
which tought PASCAL with Data Structures, Iteration and Recusion,
and such.  
  If there are any high school teachers or planners, please consider the
addition of "modem and BBS literacy" in your computer courses...one
day is about all it takes to learn the concept.  (Then you could keep
one computer open after school for BBS calling use...)
 High School age students are probably the majority of BBS users, and they
will take to the idea and technology rapidly.
  -Thomas