Re: 0x012

[EAMorical@aol.com]

I just found the set of age ranges that Pete just put out. To get
everything together I am listing Pete's followed by those I got
from the url in Roger's post on 0x011.

	<13, 13-17, 18-22,  22-30, 30-38, 39-45, 46-55, 56-65, >65

 [Two age sets are listed so I'm putting both out. Also consider if we
 want age breaks to correspond to educational age breaks]
 age <10, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, >70+
 	or
 age 10-15, 16-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70+

Comments:
65 is standard retirement age, so there is some merit to >65.
Althought this age will probably be raised. 55 is the standard
age for the start of early retirement, so one might want the 55-64
age range. On the other end, one might want 18-21 or 18-22 for
college years. For k12, its a little harder. Yesterday I had the
chance to visit a school computer lab with 30 Macs. I learned
that this lab is used for k4 for teaching  keyboard and other basics.
Also there is a program were one types in a set of words and the
program reads back the words so the student get to hear the
pronunciation. This school is a k8 rather than a k6. The school
district has a mixture of k6s and k8s. Classes 5-8 have computers
in the classrooms for class work. Maybe one wants to break it at
k4, thus <10, 10-13,  14-17, 18-21or22? 

Today I was talking with a person involved in the schools in northern
Nevada, a very rural area. There is really little difference in computing
in schools whether urban or rural. This leads to the urban/rural
question. Be right back.

Bob