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From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal
Vol 20|No 1|September 2010
----- Overequipped? Is it possible to have too many laptops? ------
By Jamie McKenzie, ©2010, all rights reserved.
We have heard so long from hardware companies and technology
cheerleaders that one-on-one is Nirvana, that we rarely stop to
question either
the claim or the evidence that might exist to substantiate it. On the
surface
it seems reasonable, right? More is better! Right? How could anyone
argue
against equipping each student with their own laptop or device? It
would be
heresy - maybe even blasphemy? Or would that be free thinking? Smart
pedagogy?
It turns out that one-on-one is perfect for some activities
but not the best choice for other learning activities. Smart teachers
and
schools have figured this out, making sure that students have the
right array
of equipment to get the job done. In one Australian independent school
with a
strong commitment to engineering design at the high school level,
students have
access to high end desktop computers when such firepower is needed,
sometimes
working as teams, but they also have access to school laptops when
those are
the best tools for the task at hand. Their parents are not asked to
buy each
child a personal laptop, but when a student logs into a school laptop,
they
have access to their own materials and files by virtue of the network
design.
Laptops are moved around and scheduled as needed — just in time.
Continued at http://fno.org/sept2010/overequipped.html
Jamie McKenzie
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