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How useful are Software apps like office software 3.2.4

I must say that office software is an invaluable resource to the teacher. What you would have taken ages to do can now be done in a matter of moments. A learning aid you used some time back and now needs to be modified can be worked on quite faster than you would have using charts or models for that matter. Take the case of diagram drawn on a chart which, with time needs to changed. Take a map of Africa, for example. Drawn 5 years ago, it does not have the country - Southern Sudan. You would probably have to buy a new one or draw a new one (both ways being costly in terms of money and time). Using a projector with images downloaded from the internet, you can update your information quite cheaply and quickly. Talk of a list of new words that have to be increased, a diagram in science that needs a 3D feel, a song in sol-fa notation, the list is long. Office Software is definitely a thumbs up.
As concerns stifling of depth of knowledge, I would say let us use office software for what it can do and find alternatives for where it is challenged. For example, I can introduce a concept with the help of power point like "States of Matter" and then later take my learners to the laboratory to show them what these states really look like. The skill you have as individual also in a way may limit you not the app itself limiting you.

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  1. AnonymousApril 19, 2015 at 11:21 PM

    I like the way in which you cite actual examples where office software can help you to more than just use technology as a substitute.

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