Learning Spreadsheets In Fifth Grade!
- September 30th, 2006
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Jill’s post about her daughter learning how to use Excel spreadsheets in fifth grade made me very excited. It is great to see how advanced the knowledge that children have about computers these days. As a child, I was the only kid in my class each year to even own a computer (Apple IIC-I just found it last spring in the closet. I have some pictures in my ) in fourth grade I actually taught our principal how to use an Apple! When I was still doing the teaching program at Stockton I was shocked by how little many people in my education classes knew about Excel. I’m not an expert, honestly I hardly use spreadsheets, but a lot of people didn’t seem to know what they were! Sadder, a lot of the women in the class said things like “oh, my husband deals with those in our home.” So not only is it great to hear that Jill’s daughter is learning spreadsheets, but it is even greater that girls are being taught cool stuff about computers at increasingly younger ages!
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