Netbooks In Education

March 24, 2010, 2:55 am PDT by admin
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Netbooks presents a wonderful opportunity for schools to get their student to computer ratio to the magic 1 to 1. Spending a short period of time in any school that does not have a 1:1 computer ratio, you quickly realize the main frustration of teachers in the school when it comes to computer usage.

Every school hears the call from teachers for more access to computers. Why then do they want access? My experience has been so that they can have their students doing assignment work. This often entails online research and typing of documents. For this reason the netbook is a wonderful choice for school laptop programs.

While Netbooks can solve a lot of problems that many teachers have in their desire to have students researching and typing, it will not extend, engage or see a return on investment in their learning outcomes if the curriculum does not recognize IT as merely an end to a means. What really matters is quality teaching and learning.