Monday, March 01, 2004

Study: Laptop program causes problems for school district

PennLive.com: "A program intended to save teachers time by giving students laptops has caused classroom delays when the equipment malfunctions or students forget to bring the computers to class, a new study found. The state Department of Education in 2001 selected the Quaker Valley School District for the pilot program that gave Apple iBook laptops to 1,800 students in grades 3-12. And while teachers have found the equipment helpful in tracking student progress, a lack of technical support, malfunctioning computers and forgetful students have cost instructional time, the nonprofit research group Rand Corp. reported ... 'over 50 percent of students in the grade did not have their laptop available in a class on a given day when students were specifically working on a technology-based project,' the report said.'For this reason, teachers ... rarely made laptop use a fundamental part of instruction because of a high percentage of students without working laptops at a given time.'"

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