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 child in class and at home?
→ It's a bad idea, because..
- children could easily come to 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.
Tuesday 26th may 09
Report about test criteria:
- Powering up: fast
- Typing: bad because keyboard is too small
- Screen: ok
- Battery + Charging: ok
- Touchpad: good
- Lid: very badly to close
