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 easily depend on the internet or the laptops
- they can't really concentrate because they can surf on other pages while they are working 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
- children's attention is more diverted ...
- you don't learn as intensively as without laptops because you can't really concentrate when you are doing other things at the same time.
→ in some ways yes, because
- you can search for information faster
- you know more about school related themes
- you can contrast different opinions of other persons
Tuesday 12th May 2009
Questions on the videos:
1. Why one laptop per child?
→One laptop per child because they want to give every child a chance to learn something even if the children haven't got running water or electricity. With connections to the internet and the communication with other people children are allowed to learn a lot.
2. What are the basic ideas?
- kids keep laptops
- focus on early education
- no one gets left out
- connection to the internet
3. What do you think about the basic ideas/theses?
→the basic ideas they have are good because every child is equal to the other children and every child is allowed to get education.
