Re:Step 1: give every kid a laptop. Step 2: learning begins?
by firefoxman1 on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @03:18PM
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In my high school we were all given laptops and all the teachers had SmartBoards. Here's how the technology was used:
1. We all gamed in class and got a shred of work done.
2. A fraction of the teachers used the boards, even though they were all trained how to.
3. They were crappy Dells that spent a good deal of time being repaired so many students were without a laptop on any given day.
4. I was personally taken home in a police car by the school officer and had my laptop confiscated for using VNC on a teacher's unsecured Smartboard. Those things caused way more trouble than good.
Oh...and our rival school all bombarded the local Blackboard servers on Exam day and DDoS'ed their way out of exams.
1. We all gamed in class and got a shred of work done.
2. A fraction of the teachers used the boards, even though they were all trained how to.
3. They were crappy Dells that spent a good deal of time being repaired so many students were without a laptop on any given day.
4. I was personally taken home in a police car by the school officer and had my laptop confiscated for using VNC on a teacher's unsecured Smartboard. Those things caused way more trouble than good.
Oh...and our rival school all bombarded the local Blackboard servers on Exam day and DDoS'ed their way out of exams.