Educational Issues

» tinemarie - Personal Laptops

I can see how having laptop stations with teacher supervision would be helpful, but isn't that a lot like regular computer stations?
Buying each student a laptop seems like a waste at the moment, when there are so many problems with education finance.
However, there is a need to stay current with technology. Education the next "George Lucas" does not seem likely to happen with the run-of-the-mill school laptop usage.

-- posted by tinemarie

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» Barbara Pytel - Personal Laptops

In response to Personal Laptops posted by tinemarie:

My school has issued personal notebooks to all high school students at no cost to the students. But, this was after an intense year of training for teachers on their notebooks. During that year, the server was enhanced and we have not had problems. Perhaps because we are a very small rural school with less than 500 students K-12, we supervise rather well.

The funding was out of a special pop bottle. Funding comes from various sources and may be spent for only those items. It happened that funding was available for the computers but not much for teacher salaries. After one year with the students having laptop notebooks, I think most teachers want to continue. It has been positive for us.

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