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7 thoughts on “School laptops: waste of money or classroom necessity?”
Sommer Lapitsky
Chromebooks have absolutely been a distraction for my son. He, along with so many other students these days, has a very hard time focusing at school as it is, and the Chromebook just makes matters worse. I HATE them.
I work in a library and have seen the way students with laptops have had reduced skills. They resort to using them to “google” everything, and no instruction apparently is given regarding the appropriateness of the sites they use as sources. Also the kind of work has fallen, from writing reports to making projects where little is written and pictures and packaged sites provide the content.
How did some of the brilliant minds of years past make it without laptops or PCs? They studied books, encyclopedias, and they did experiments by hand and made notes.
Kids today aren’t even being taught penmanship or cursive, or as we called it, longhand.
I call it the “dumbing down of America.”
A class on computers, yes. The whole day on computers, no….Emphatic NO!
When my daughter was in high school, she used to tell me of how the students would find ways to get past the firewall and watch movies, check their soical media sites, music etc. rather than pay attention in class.
Common Core laptops – sending all data of the student to a central base. cradle to grave monitoring and psych profiles. Bill Ayers and The Obama OFA asre heavily involved – building a data base of the population. evil.
Aren’t they also a health hazard?
35 laptops all plugged in, charging, WiFi enabled, all in their cabinet….. times how many carts full of machines in the school building. One in each classroom? Wow. Would hate to be a kid or teacher sensitive to these frequencies….
Chromebooks have absolutely been a distraction for my son. He, along with so many other students these days, has a very hard time focusing at school as it is, and the Chromebook just makes matters worse. I HATE them.
I work in a library and have seen the way students with laptops have had reduced skills. They resort to using them to “google” everything, and no instruction apparently is given regarding the appropriateness of the sites they use as sources. Also the kind of work has fallen, from writing reports to making projects where little is written and pictures and packaged sites provide the content.
How did some of the brilliant minds of years past make it without laptops or PCs? They studied books, encyclopedias, and they did experiments by hand and made notes.
Kids today aren’t even being taught penmanship or cursive, or as we called it, longhand.
I call it the “dumbing down of America.”
A class on computers, yes. The whole day on computers, no….Emphatic NO!
When my daughter was in high school, she used to tell me of how the students would find ways to get past the firewall and watch movies, check their soical media sites, music etc. rather than pay attention in class.
Common Core laptops – sending all data of the student to a central base. cradle to grave monitoring and psych profiles. Bill Ayers and The Obama OFA asre heavily involved – building a data base of the population. evil.
Aren’t they also a health hazard?
35 laptops all plugged in, charging, WiFi enabled, all in their cabinet….. times how many carts full of machines in the school building. One in each classroom? Wow. Would hate to be a kid or teacher sensitive to these frequencies….