image by unfurled, 2008 @ flickr.com
I walk into the class, which is being held in a computer suite, with banks of computers in rows. Sonya, Serban, Anicka and Tia are already experimenting with editing. It is clear that these students have spent some time using computers. I remember the conversations we had previously. Anicka said that she spent most of her free time chatting, as did Sonya. Chatting online!
Tomako and Mena are becoming angry. I don’t know if it is me or something else. Then I notice that they needed help using the IT. They start saying that they want to learn how to operate the machines. Ema looks blankly at me and then starts in her familiar way of sort of half shouting half speaking that she doesn’t know how to use the computer. “I told you before”, she says. Surely all 17 year olds know how to use a computer. Not if they have come from war torn Iraq or Congo they don’t. Then I ask her to pair up with someone who does know.
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