In reply to Harold Jarche » Born in a storm.

Yes. But then, no.I agree; kids don't need to know how to become web developers or movie directors. God knows we already have enough of those (yes, I'm a web developer). Kids need to know how to spell, how to think and how not to beat the shit out of each other.

I recall the HyperCard version of this model, too. And the early HTML version. We teach kids that finding text, pictures, videos and sounds they can "borrow" off the web is not only okay, it's educational -- and then we get to scream at them (or sue them) when they "borrow" MP3 files, Hollywood blockbusters and warez versions of Adobe Photoshop a couple of years later. It's actually a fascinating lesson in how "adults" tell them one thing and then do another.

And I disagree; OpenOffice and the GIMP might be great software, but _multimedia_ software, they're most definitely not. The RFQ might as well have gone directly to Macromedia and no one else.