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Re: 1 to 1 Computing -- Seeking Input

More details please. What's this program intended to do? Will curriculum be designed to require (or take advantage) one of these devices? Is this a way of passing responsibility for IT services on to the students? How rich is the content on the online course system? Is it possible to replace textbooks with this device? Will the device be crippled so that students can't do various extracurricular things during class? Does every student need the same thing? Do the legislators understand enough about computing, education and people in general to make sensible decisions about this?

And depending on the answers to those questions, it may indeed be valuable to debate the usefulness of the program. Similarly, those answers will allow respondents to make informed feature lists, rather than wish lists that may be based on impractical expectations.

(And yes, I'm a variety of student, though perhaps not quite what you had in mind.)
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