On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:25:51PM +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > And now, what brings me here: I'm involved in the setup of a computer > classroom in Brussels, Belgium for a primary school (children from 3 > to 12). What we have now is a network of about 20 diskless 486 that > boots in X from a nicely powered server (running Debian of course). > We setupped recently a project on sourceforge (named 'plume') to help > other people deploy such a network. > > I now have to write an objective paper about our setup, how it works > but also why we did it that way. One of my arguments is that this > provided one computer per child instead of one per 4 or 5 children. > I know I read somewhere a study saying basically that for an efficient > educational use you needed at least one computer per 2 children. > Does anybody here know about the references about such a study ?
You may want to contact the people on seul-edu mailing list. Their web page is at http://www.seul.org/edu/ . First, they will definitely be interested in your project, second, somebody there may be able to answer your question. -- Jan Hlavacek (219) 434-7566 Department of Mathematics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Saint Francis http://www.sf.edu/jhlavacek/
