David Weinberger is Blogging about a presentation on the $100 laptop.
This whole whole idea fires the imagination in so many ways
Developing countries leapfrogging the developed world in terms of educational access?
What are your thoughts?
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Would you believe this was after my Stag night?
To record and get feedback from the world regarding Islay High Schools move down the ICT route
The Islay High School Project
As a School of Ambition and Excellence we are some way down the route of these 4 strands
1. Developing the leadership potential and capacity of the whole school, Staff and Pupils 2. Introducing Vocational Courses to the curriculum 3. Removing the age and stage restrictions from the certificated courses. 4. Developing the use of ICT to support the curriculum
I am heavily involved with the ICT strand so that is what I will be talking about mainly. Though, of course, the other strands will be brought in as well. So what are we planning in the ICT Strand?
Every Teacher has a Tablet PC A wireless network Wireless Projectors in every teaching area A presentation space in the Assembly Hall A Media Server A Class Server Existing courses digitised S1 'Benchmarked' for IC3 Giving them individual curriculum in S1/2 Once these are in place then give every pupil a UMPC computer
All of these are in Partnership with Microsoft, Dell, Diageo (Large local employer) and Prodigy (Certiport solution provider).
Maybe more partners in the future We have just started down this route. I am sure we will have lots of challenges ahead.
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2 comments:
Hi Ian,
After talking to a few children involved in a one-two-one pda project I now believe that the $100 laptop, or your UMPC, for all project will be incredibly powerful. Once children have a device of their own the device and tech may become transparent a huge difference from the once a week visit to the suite or occasional turn on the classroom boxes.
I think ICT is no longer an add on to education bbut a foundation
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