Re:84-Year-Old Volunteer Rebuilds and Sends Linux Laptops to...
by aaron695 on Monday June 15, 2015 @06:10AM
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Having worked in a first world school I was surprised by the lack of vandalism and theft.
It did exist but was very minor. But this is still enough for a large body of students to destroy a small lab over a few years.
But the main issue was game playing and entertainment. Kids will do what kids do everywhere, just play games when left to their own devices.
If you're taking away from other time this becomes detrimental time.
Here's a negative review on the hole in a wall scheme for instance - http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=mitra
Not to say you can't design a system for kids to actually learn in unsupervised at a reasonable cost, just it's yet to happen.
Re:84-Year-Old Volunteer Rebuilds and Sends Linux Laptops to...
by dec0dedab0de on Monday June 15, 2015 @05:34AM
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Almost- all of their response was about trust, if the kids will break it etc. I think it boiled down to control & trust
sounds more like fear to me.
However, some of the larger government schools, have computer & labs.
But...
Just as you mentioned, most of them are unused because they don't have a IT technician/lab instructor.
I spoke to hundreds of government teachers & asked them the question of- why don't you just open the lab & let the students figure it out, the smarter/more responsive kids to tech can become the IT/Lab instructors?
Almost- all of their response was about trust, if the kids will break it etc. I think it boiled down to control & trust.