Necessary Ingredients Part 1 - Access November 2, 2007
Posted by Matthew Woolums in 21st-Century, Opinion.trackback
I was asked the other day why I spend so much time posting about cheap laptops. I guess it has a lot to do with the ingredients necessary for technology to have an impact on technology. One of those ingredients is access.Access has many components, which is why this post includes ‘part 1′ in the title. I’ll revisit this topic later.
At a basic level, access means getting technology into the hands of those who can do something with it. In the case of education, it means putting technology into the hands of our students. Taking students to a computer lab once a week for 45 minutes isn’t enough. Students need, and deserve, the opportunity to have technology with them at any time they need it during the school day.
One way to do that is to provide every student with a laptop. One-to-one initiative require a lot of money or institutional effort. Most districts, including large urban districts in Colorado, are not blessed with an over-abundance of either. The only way to get technology into the hands of every student is to make it much more affordable. This is why I spend so much time talking about cheap alternatives.
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