“The Number One reason –- according to students –– why their computer doesn’t work is . . .  It’s broken.  Can I move to a different computer???   Doesn’t matter why they’re wrong.  My teacher’s job is to provide strategies so they can independently solve problems like these.”  So says Jacqui Murray in Ask A Tech Teacher for September 9, 2013.

She goes on to say that “As a tech teacher, I know that half the problems that stop students short in their tech lessons are the same few. Once they’ve learned the following twenty-five trouble shooting solutions, they’ll be able to solve more than half of their ongoing problems.”   In this article she includes a chart of 25 problems with solutions that any student can follow.

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