Every child and class faces this. In my fairly well-funded public elementary and middle school, I must have had a handful of classes in which I didn't have my own textbook for weeks, and had to share / had nothing to take home. In other cases, there weren't enough of the latest materials and I had to use old or damaged books, or borrow the teacher's book.
Centralizing a lot of interesting activity on a single device/book makes the impact greater; I always had other classes where this wasn't an issue. So this speaks to avoiding single points of failure. I can see a partial solution where if you lose your materials you no longer have them to take home with you (so you don't go on losing them every week) but have access to ones you can use in school. In my school we paid for replacements; it's more difficult if students/families can't do that. SJ On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:26 AM, John Watlington <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Albert Cahalan wrote: > >> What do you do when a kid loses his XO? Does he just miss out >> on an education, or does the school stick to XO-free lessons? >> How many replacements are you going to give him? > > What do you do when a monitor/keyboard breaks, leaving you > with 24 seats for a class of 25 ? Or worse, a CPU unit, leaving > you with 20 seats for a class of 25 ? > > This is a problem faced in every deployment of technology in > schools. What about the kid that lost his textbook(s) ? > > I'd love to hear some educators thoughts on handling this dilemma. > > Cheers, > wad > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
