Consider: here I sit on the most comfortable couch in South Dakota, writing an IT project management midterm on my laptop, taking a break to check my SiteMeter stats (coming up on 15,000! yahoo! keep 'em comin'!), and blogtificating on the perils of making high school education dependent on technology. Mere irony? Rank hypocrisy? Uncommon sense? Commenters, your opinions are welcome...
...but first, do check out the estimable Mr. Epp's take on the flap. And kids (yeah, you, Bulldog hackers!), check out his last paragraph:
Frankly, I applaud the kids in MHS for trying to stick it to The Man. If MHS were smart, they'd put some of these kids on an IT committee to help the district stay ahead of the "threats" our already computer-literate youth can concoct.
Oh, that Epp -- a regular anarchist! ;-)
I'm not against technology. I'm against preventable problems and poor IT practices being blamed on the end user.
ReplyDeleteI definitely am on the side of those who are not a fan of laptops in schools. There's just too much potential for abuse and the academic benefits are suspect at best.
ReplyDeleteI wrote an article on the topic a while back, you can read it here: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/132537/laptops_in_schools_a_bad_plan_for_education.html