team9

Team-members: Stephan M. & Eva K.

07.05.2009

Would you like to have a laptop for yourself in class and at home?

Contra

• The corporate feeling gets lost because the pupils don't have to talk to each other or work for a project in groups
• Distraction because of the internet
• Computer-rooms are already there
• Loss of the traditional handwriting
• Loss of comunication between the pupils

Pro

• People are able to learn the use of the Pc early
• Current News are directly available
• Gives pupil equal opportunities

What do you think would be the best way to use it at/for school?

• German/ English: for writing essays
• You can access informations fast for all lessons

Do you think a laptop can help you to learn better/more effectivly/faster?How would this work?

• You have to learn the handling of the Pc first, before you can work with it
• Informations from the internet
• Pupils can just copy things from the internet if they don't want to work

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

• The teacher loses influence <= is that so bad?
• A crash of the Pc destroys your work

12.05.2009

HRD (The Ministry of Human Resources Development) rubbishes MIT's laptop scheme for kids

• The Indian ministry government is an opponent of the experimentation "One-Laptop-Per-Child"
• These are their arguments:
• The money for the laptops can be better spent on primary and secondary education
• The ministry doesn't understand, why the Project OLPC isn't chosen by developed country
• The ministry of India debated about the right age of the target group
• They also talked about the adverse health effect

27.05.09

Criterias for a laptop at school

• Powering up ~> very slow
• Typing ~> the keyboard is much too small
• Screen ~> is too small
• Battery ~> only for 3 or 4 hours
• Touchpad ~> is okay
• Lid ~> very bad quality
• Readability of internet pages ~> is okay
• enough RAM / disk-space for new pograms? ~> not enough Ram because the laptop is too slow