Everyone has his or her own at home project moment. Opening an assignment on gaggle.net does not always work, a normally successful printer might decide to take a sabatical, homework-free siblings could invade the computer for games or social networking. Having a personal laptop with school applications installed–PRICELESS.
Instead of having to finish everything in the short 15-minute tutorial time, we could finish work that needs a computer without skipping breakfast or losing sleep with new access to laptops available later in the year.
The eventual benefit could involve not having to carry around textbooks. Hoisting heavy textbooks is not ideal for growing children, and in high school, the homework load could involve two or three books a night. This could be an eventual blessing for those who carry everything in backpacks, which according to medical experts shouldn’t weigh more than 10 to 15 percent of your body weight.
These laptops will make high school to college transition easier since college students take notes faster on computer in university classrooms A head start on that experience will benefit those going to college and might even improve grades and influence other students to give higher learning a shot.
Although getting laptops is a huge technological step for us, that advance has plenty of pitfalls. Not everyone has Internet access at home. If teachers assume this they could assign homework that several students cannot complete at home.
The simple solution to this is community-wide WiFi. Nearly 300 towns in Texas have free WiFi. If Seminole had this connection available it would be a valuable aid to education as well as economically disadvantaged homes. That way things like Edmodo, Gaggle and Google.docs would only be a click away for everyone.
Even without Internet access, the laptop route still has perks. Since the laptops are exactly like the school computers formats, years of losing documents and program incompatibility will be no more. Students would be able to create projects to show at school with seamless consistency.
With these laptops comes added responsibility. Damage and misuse can and probably will become issues. Students getting this responsibility may or may not be ready for it. The laptops will have the same filtering system as the school, but there is no way to block everything, so if students go to the wrong places they assume the responsibility.
Loss or damage to these laptops do not hold the same penalties as simply losing a textbook. Replacement would be much more expensive and could take longer to process. A MacBook Air would cost about 14 times that of a calculator to replace.
As we jump into this new era of technology and responsibility, we will probably come across new every day problems, but that is the price any pioneer pays.