9th Graders Discuss Their Laptop Program
Posted by arvind s grover Sun, 13 May 2007 21:01:22 GMT
After reading Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops in the New York Times on May 4th, I decided to use it as a discussion piece with my technology classes. I teach in a K-12 girls school in New York City with a 1:1 laptop program in grades 8-12. I wanted the students to respond to the article using their own experiences as students in a laptop school. A colleague at another school, Bill Campbell, suggested I record this discussion. The audio below is 1 class of my 9th grade answering a series of questions from me. As you will hear, I did not suggest any particular answers, but asked them to speak freely.
If you wish to use this audio, please let me know. Since it is a broadcast of a school class, I would like to let me school know where it is being used. Contact me at arvind [at] 21apples.org.
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This is awesome Arvind, thanks so much for posting it. I’d like to extract a few of the comments for use in presentations to parents.
Demetri, glad it was helpful to you. Once you’re done, can you just let me know where you posted it? Thanks.
Here’s a link to an argument on the other side: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07133/785391-298.stm
Sounds very similar to the conversations that were going on at SLA after that article.