team7

Teammembers

• Martin Häpp
• Alexander Desch

08.05.09: Questions on working with a laptop at school:

1.) Would you like to have a laptop for yourself in class and at home? Say why (not)!

Yes:

• but only if I won't have to carry all my books with me any more
• at last my own computer!!
• unlimited access to the internet
• I can get information more easily from the internet also at school!
• you can easily correct writing mistakes and thus achieve a cleaner look of your workbook

No:

• too slow (concerning this laptop we're testing)
• keyboard is much too small and it takes a lot of time to get used to it
• battery is weak
• touchpad is circuitous

2.) What do you think would be the best way to use it at/for school? Think of different subjects!

• no more heavy schoolbooks
• your own computer is perfect for the subject informatics!
• you can easily draw functions in mathematics
• the teachers won't have to print all the worksheets any more because they can write it in a document thus a lot of costs for printing can be saved

3.) Do you think a laptop can help you to learn better / more effectively / faster ...? How would this work?

No:

• because I will do anything at the computer but learn <== very honest! ;-)

Yes:

• some pupils may write faster on the keyboard than by hand
• there may be some programs for learning vocabulary for example

4.) What disadvantages/problems do you see in working with your personal laptop at and for school?

• the pupils don't learn a correct handwriting
• high costs for electricity because the batteries aren't strong enough to operate the laptop all the time at school
• the pupils may get problems with their eyes because of looking at a display all the time

12.05.09: Criticism on the the OLPC-project

• it's used only to sell as much laptops as possible and to make a great amount of money
• the developers are more engaged in the problem to sell as much laptops as possible to african children than to develop and improve those
• open source is discussed ==> distraction
• may be used to exploit the poor nations by make them pay millions of machines
• Africans don't have the time to use such a laptop
• it's much cheaper to supply the Africans with books in their language
• the developers used hazardous hardware to build the laptops
• the keyboard is stolen from a Lancor patented device