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After an interesting week at my school, this video reminds me that I am in the right when I try to teach my students some IT skills!
First I found out that most of my students didn't know how to do a slideshow using PowerPoint or Open Office Impress, which is even better because it is free to download so very cheap for schools to use. I had planned for my students to do a presentation on a Latin American country and we spent most of the lesson learning how to do a slideshow on a computer. Then, some students asked me if they could use Wikipedia to research their countries. I told them that of course, it was ok to use it! They told me some teachers did not allow them to use it because most of the time the content was wrong as the contributors were not "professionals". I showed them the discussion page where people can discuss, alter some of the content and they were amazed to discover this page. Obviously some teachers are scared of the revolution going on and talk about things they don't even know (which annoys me the most!).
