If you do not teach proprietary software un schools, you will hobble your students' job hunting potential. We should ALSO teach open source alternatives, and teach the idea that there are functional alternatives, but a student who has never used the major apps isn't getting their resume even looked at by a human.
Imo students need to be taught how to use Windows, Linux would also be neat, but it's not necessary for most.
They also need to be taught how to use any office suite, it can be libre office or MS office, it doesn't really matter which but they have to be able to use it.
If you do not teach proprietary software un schools, you will hobble your students' job hunting potential. We should ALSO teach open source alternatives, and teach the idea that there are functional alternatives, but a student who has never used the major apps isn't getting their resume even looked at by a human.
Imo students need to be taught how to use Windows, Linux would also be neat, but it's not necessary for most.
They also need to be taught how to use any office suite, it can be libre office or MS office, it doesn't really matter which but they have to be able to use it.