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power of such <strong>to</strong>ols lies in their ability <strong>to</strong> perform repetitive operations swiftly <strong>and</strong>accurately.” (2003, p.11)Salmon notes the same phenomenon within the university sec<strong>to</strong>r:“Academics are conscious of the opportunity costs (such as <strong>time</strong> <strong>take</strong>n away from researchor working with more familiar teaching systems). Admin<strong>is</strong>tra<strong>to</strong>rs look for gains <strong>to</strong> theinstitution.” (Salmon, 2000 pp. 19-20)One of the repetitive operations I was required <strong>to</strong> perform ex officio was the subm<strong>is</strong>sion ofexamination results for the subject in rank order for each year group. As <strong>some</strong>one with what hasbeen identified as ‘Mathophobia’ (Papert, 1993 p. 38), I can still recollect (Gallwey <strong>and</strong> Green,1986; Natanson, 1970) the feeling of ‘dread’ at having <strong>to</strong> calculate the percentages <strong>and</strong> thenconduct the ordering process. <strong>It</strong> was the solving of th<strong>is</strong> particular problem using Log<strong>is</strong>tix, incollaboration, with the Head of Computer Studies, which was a significant pointer <strong>to</strong> the“magic” that IT could be for me, <strong>and</strong> <strong>is</strong>. Th<strong>is</strong> occurred on 20th June 1989 – I ‘know’ th<strong>is</strong>because it was at the very moment that I selected from the menu on the taskbar at thebot<strong>to</strong>m of the screen that the school’s secretary arrived in my office bearing news that my wifehad gone in<strong>to</strong> labour with our second child.344Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thes<strong>is</strong> (Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 2012)

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