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Touch Screen Computers
Topic Started: Oct 26 2008, 01:46 PM (564 Views)
FinalKiller0	Oct 29 2008, 06:10 PM Post #16
Member Posts: 946 Group: Members Member #144,228 Joined: January 19, 2007 I'm Browsing With Firefox 3	We don't get laptops...



Nivexonix	Oct 29 2008, 09:26 PM Post #17
L o v e Posts: 565 Group: Members Member #90,678 Joined: January 15, 2006 I'm Browsing With Firefox 3	Possibly taken out of context again. We have regular laptops at our use, not tablets. We don't personally get one. Though, I think having each student given a laptop at the beginning of the year and being required to return it at the end of the year would be a major benefit to schools because it could really speed things up and help out a lot of people.



Ben	Oct 29 2008, 09:32 PM Post #18
This sentence is false. Posts: 33,894 Group: Global Support Team Member #25,756 Joined: July 28, 2004	Nivexonix Oct 29 2008, 09:26 PM Possibly taken out of context again. We have regular laptops at our use, not tablets. We don't personally get one. Though, I think having each student given a laptop at the beginning of the year and being required to return it at the end of the year would be a major benefit to schools because it could really speed things up and help out a lot of people. The One Laptop per Child project aims to distribute inexpensive, custom-built generative laptops to children in developing countries. In an essay for one of my education classes, I pointed out that even classrooms in developed countries could benefit from a similar distribution of technology. One of the major problems with educational technology is that ... it isn't. With a few exceptions, like Edubuntu, most computers in schools run a garden variety of Windows, Mac, or Linux. Lots of software is just off the shelf. This creates numerous problems: firstly, it doesn't focus student activity (we all know we'd rather be playing with Flash than working on our reports); secondly, it forces teachers to adapt to the software at hand instead of the other way around; thirdly, it's a drain on money for school boards. Having specially-designed computers for classrooms would be a boon. Generative laptops like the XO laptop used by the OLPC would allow students to create programs at will to suit their needs; the safe and easy networking protocols would make turning in assignments and getting help much easier.



Lewis	Nov 1 2008, 03:14 AM Post #19
times like these Posts: 179 Group: Members Member #159,427 Joined: August 24, 2007 I'm Browsing With Firefox 3	Nivexonix Oct 29 2008, 09:26 PM Possibly taken out of context again. We have regular laptops at our use, not tablets. We don't personally get one. Though, I think having each student given a laptop at the beginning of the year and being required to return it at the end of the year would be a major benefit to schools because it could really speed things up and help out a lot of people. My school does that. It's Linux based but it's a neat little laptop. We have to return it at the end of year 11.



Darren Gilmour	Nov 1 2008, 06:26 AM Post #20
I seriously am dumb. Posts: 382 Group: Members Member #174,792 Joined: September 22, 2008 I'm Browsing With Safari 3 My Board URL http://s1.zetaboards.com/The_world_of_magic/index/	Only a few schools do that here............ St Leonards and Hamilton Collge.. ar the only oines I know of that give a laptop to each child.... also my high school has a kind of Touch computer for Arcitecture studie... its not really a computer just a program thats all 3D and you draw on it... Byt sadly there is only 3 in the school.



trevormacster1	Nov 5 2008, 02:28 PM Post #21
Member Posts: 75 Group: Members Member #172,290 Joined: July 24, 2008	Our schools give laptops but not touch screens unfortunately they give MacBooks with leopard.



Nivexonix	Nov 7 2008, 09:55 PM Post #22
L o v e Posts: 565 Group: Members Member #90,678 Joined: January 15, 2006 I'm Browsing With Firefox 3	Ben Oct 29 2008, 09:32 PM Nivexonix Oct 29 2008, 09:26 PM Possibly taken out of context again. We have regular laptops at our use, not tablets. We don't personally get one. Though, I think having each student given a laptop at the beginning of the year and being required to return it at the end of the year would be a major benefit to schools because it could really speed things up and help out a lot of people. The One Laptop per Child project aims to distribute inexpensive, custom-built generative laptops to children in developing countries. In an essay for one of my education classes, I pointed out that even classrooms in developed countries could benefit from a similar distribution of technology. One of the major problems with educational technology is that ... it isn't. With a few exceptions, like Edubuntu, most computers in schools run a garden variety of Windows, Mac, or Linux. Lots of software is just off the shelf. This creates numerous problems: firstly, it doesn't focus student activity (we all know we'd rather be playing with Flash than working on our reports); secondly, it forces teachers to adapt to the software at hand instead of the other way around; thirdly, it's a drain on money for school boards. Having specially-designed computers for classrooms would be a boon. Generative laptops like the XO laptop used by the OLPC would allow students to create programs at will to suit their needs; the safe and easy networking protocols would make turning in assignments and getting help much easier. Really good point. Indeed, we have software on some of the computers here that are just off the shelf, but school-oriented programs would be much better suited for a lot of things. Also limiting what students are allowed to use at school could be really beneficial.



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