Do Laptops Help Learning? A Look at the Only Statewide School Laptop Program

Re:Do Laptops Help Learning? A Look at the Only Statewide Sc... by dyarosla on Saturday August 26, 2017 @07:17PM (#15108006)

I think this is very incorrect.

Companies are not not building for the student. It may very well be true that companies can be guided by other factors (businesses do need money to run), but it's not that they are not looking at students experience' when writing, creating, or publishing content- which at the heart of it is meant to get students to learn and engage.

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Re:Do Laptops Help Learning? A Look at the Only Statewide Sc... by zachlatta on Saturday August 26, 2017 @07:23PM (#15108025)

It's a matter of the student's experience affecting the school's bottom line.

At best, that's happening indirectly. Which isn't good enough.

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Re:Do Laptops Help Learning? A Look at the Only Statewide Sc... by codingdave on Saturday August 26, 2017 @10:04PM (#15108681)

True, but dig deeper -- schools don't care about their bottom line because they are trying to make a profit. They care because they are trying to stay open while serving ALL the students. And their funding is driven by the government, which in turn decides how to fund based on standardized testing... which drives the curriculum, which drives the student experience.

You aren't wrong, but you are not describing the bigger picture. There is a vicious cycle going on. And school and district administrators are painfully aware of it, and would love to break it.

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