Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Laptops backwards is Spotpal
The fact that students will be receiving laptops is fantastic! My God though, that is a lot of money. Makes me wonder if they will recycle these laptops...graduating seniors will hand them over to incoming freshman? "The program also includes training to show the teacher how to use the technology in their classrooms."-- mmmmm veryyy reassuring!!!
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Spotpal, I love how you noticed that. It just goes to show that a creative mind can look at things from a different perspective and come up with something totally different. Spotpal is almost like saying that laptops are your pal for small places - way cool!
I do like your thought about what the district might do with the laptops of the seniors as they graduate. Should they be allowed to keep them or pass them down to incoming freshman, what a thought, and of course upgrades and new/better laptop models would make it necessary to invest more cash into the system. Yes, there always seems to be a catch, hopefully they will learn to make technology cheaper for school districts, otherwise as I asked in my post on this topic where will the money come from? Many of our smaller and even some of the bigger school districts are finding it harder to get funding for continuing programs like this. Increasing taxes is not necessarily the best option, since many people become upset when this occurs and many people are already hard-pressed to come up with the tax dollars.
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