1986 was my first experience on the Internet while I was at Uni.
By 1987 I was building web-pages by copying html source code and altering the text with note pad.
Netscape Composer was a huge change to the system. WYSIWIG was born (What You See Is What You Get).
A big difference from GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out).
I knew then where the computer industry was heading but none of the teachers believed me.
I specialised in Computer Education through my study and had a lot of disagreements with teachers then.
So many said, It'll never replace books and pen. I agreed but told them that if they didn't become computer literate,
they would become unemployable in the teaching industry.
I also advocated that all children in primary school had to learn to use computers.
My ideas were scoffed at but a few foresighted principals asked me to develop the technology.
They had a full time job running interference for me.
The WA government sold the gas pipeline from the north of the state to Perth and sunk $100,000,000 into Computers in the classroom project.
My next challenge was High school teacher hated me teaching primary kids to build web-pages.
They told me that the students coming into their school from my school already knew more than the existing high school students,
which I interpreted as 'themselves' and the teachers didn't know what to teach them next.
I told them not to teach the kids but rather facilitate to let them learn.
Exciting times.
How correct I was...
