I am NOT a student, but our district has had a 1:1 laptop program for several years now.
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Originally Posted by dudefise
should also give students admin rights
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I advise against that, unless your IT support staff is huge. Like any enterprise solution, giving free reign doesn't work well.
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Originally Posted by sanddrag
A project like this opens a whole new can of worms/problems. I wouldn't recommend it. I would like to see solid statistical numbers showing such a program improves student achievement greater than putting those funds elsewhere.
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I beg to differ. Yes, there are new challenges, but after a year or two they were overcome. Now our students seem to excel - our district is consistently in the top 20 in the state (of over 600 districts). I don't have the stats, but someone around here does, and it works.
(But the point that technology alone does not solve anything is 100% valid. Teachers, administrators, students and parents must ALL work on this for it to be effective. Oh, and push "paperless" right from the start, or the schools will be buried under printer paper in short order)
techedguy, take a look here at the info for the 1:1 initiative, and if you want to speak/communicate with someone in the school administration or IT team, or have specific questions (we use laptops with 13" screens) just let me know via PM.
http://www.pascack.k12.nj.us/pascack...te/default.asp
I could go on and on, but I won't