team2

Team members Stefanie Hau and Claudia Kaffer

Thursday 7 ^th may 09

Questions on working with a laptop at school:

1.Laptops for every children in class and at home?

→ It's a bad idea, because..

• children could be easily depend on the internet or the laptops
• children only use the internet to find information So what is bad here?
• they can't really concentrate because they can surf on other pages while they had to work in the internet
• they only communicate with their friends via the internet

2. What's the best way to use it at school?- which subjects?

• for english/french lessons to use a dictionary or english/french newspapers
• mathematics to demonstrate something
• economy to analyse some up to date statistics

3. Learning with laptops better/more effectively/faster?- how does this work?

→ No, because

• you can't really concentrate ... Why
• children's attention is more diverted ...
• you don't learn as intensively as without laptops ... why??

→ in some ways yes, because

• you can search for information faster
• you know something more about some themes
• you can contrast different meanings from other persons