telegrams, where they would go to have one sent, how to calculate the
costs and so forth, we no longer do that. It is a skill similar to to
a host of others such as the handling of horses and wagons or the
sailing of large ships under wind power which has been lost to all but
a very few as the technology has vanished.
Greg
On Feb 16, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Norman Constantine wrote:
> There is a clear relationship between a telegram and a text
> message......Please explore Tom Standish's The Victorian Internet to
> explore the "family tree".
>
> Norman
>
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> From: A forum for independent school educators on behalf of Greg
> Kearney
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> Subject: Re: 21st Century Computer Skills
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>
>
> This is clearly false, Do you or do you expect your students to know
> how to set type or transmit in morse code? Try and send a telegram
> today. These were once common skills of communication which are now
> all but extinct.
>
> Greg
>
> On Feb 15, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Norman Constantine wrote:
>
>> New technologies does not replace the existing forms of
>> communication. They
>> either enhancement, or they add on to it.
>
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