21st Century Learning and Teaching

I can’t believe that we’re still having a discussion over whether or not the bad guys have begun targeting Mac users. I’ve one word to describe these people who choose to ignore the real problems facing the modern Mac user and instead choose to live in the past - Dinosaurs.

Times have changed. The old-guard, fervor-filled dinosaurs of the past who for some reason (ego, self esteem, ignorance …) want to frantically and fanatically cheer lead have been replaced by the modern Mac user who sees the Mac as a tool rather than an idol. What is a modern Mac user? Well, for starters I see them as someone who started using a Mac since its transition from the PowerPC architecture to Intel architecture, a move which began in mid-2006. Much of the zealotry and nonsense spouted today dates back to the PowerPC years when owning a Mac was seen by many as a deviant pastime. Times have changed.

The modern Mac user also uses their machine in a very different way to the dinosaurs of old. People nowadays surf a lot more, social media has in many ways replaced email as the preferred method of communication. Multimedia on the web has exploded. More people doing more things in ways that we couldn’t really have dreamed possible a decade ago.