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Thomas Kraus, Thomas Zehe

Thursday, 07.05.2009

Questions on the working with a laptop at school:

1. No, because:

• they are too slow for learning with them in the lesson
• need too much time for working
• the display is too small
• without a normal mouse it is very annoying
• the pupils can use them for their own interests also in the lesson
• not good for the eyes, to look the whole day on a screen
• electromagnetic pollution is very bad for your health

2. In subjects:

• where you have to write essays or other articles (e.g. German)
• where you have to find information in the web (e.g. for a presentation)
• where you need special programs like “GeoGebra”

3.1 Pro: You can learn faster, because…

• you can find the most information very fast
• you can write faster with the keyboard than by hand

3.2 Con: You can´t learn so effectively, because…

• you can get distracted very easily by games, etc.
• not all, that is in the web is right, but you trust it anyway

4. look at answer 3.2

Are 100 Dollar per laptop too expensive?

1. Yes, because...

• in many countries 100 dollar is more than one monthly salary (e.g. in India)
• the price will increase in the next few years
• it's too expensive for the emerging markets
• if the governments don't support the people to finance the laptops they won't be able to handle the costs

1. No, because it's an "long form factor", that means that you will only pay for it one time, not like for books. If the project runs, it will save a lot of money.