The computer room gives additional extra practice if the kids already understand the material. It also allows the practice to go on at the speed of the child, rather than the speed of the class.
But you can't teach new material by sitting a child at a computer, and the software has to be fully integrated into the course of instruction. Just giving a school some old pentium 3's is a waste, unless they can strip them down for parts or let the kids surf the net in the library. I thought by now that Linux users would understand that the hardware is just the table that you put software on. Old hardware is like old tables, they are strictly basement workbenches or firewood, not something you showcase for guests. If teacher's and administrators could set up a lab on their own, entire subsections of the computer industry lose their reason for existence. Those companies the districts hire to get their educational software up and running serve no useful function. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Matthias Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 19, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Mark Wallace <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > When a school does it right > > I don't think I have had the pleasure of seeing such a thing. That's > not entirely a joke either. Most admins I have met from public > schools k-12 either don't know what they are doing or dont get to > make the call on the software or hardware, the state or their > misinformed supervisor sold by market speak does. I also would debate > as to whether that room of PCs even improves learning or if it's just > a modern tv the teacher can slap a VHS in about space and be done with > science class for the day. /rant > > Matthias Johnson > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Feb 3 - Arduino > Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration > Apr 7 - Nagios > -- Mark Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 Telephone: (845) 566-0586
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