Comments on: One-to-one computer/student ratios

By: breabexporo

breabexporo — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:56:24 +0000

Thanks for the post

By: Tech Task #7 | the beginning

Tech Task #7 | the beginning — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:18:40 +0000

[...] some of which turned into my own blog posts. Just as In Schools Today was a response to one of April’s posts, that I just had to copy and paste into my own [...]

By: Corinne

Corinne — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:00:37 +0000

Wow, I can’t believe so few students had their posters ready on time. The only thing I remember, from my middle school and high school years, is teachers giving zeros on assignments handed in late- unless an extension was given.

By: In Schools Today: A response to One-on-one Computer/Student Ratios | the beginning

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:34:05 +0000

[...] completely agree with April’s post that weather or not students succeed or improve completely depends on how we define [...]

By: Jenna

Jenna — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:29:41 +0000

I completely agree with you that weather or not students succeed or improve completely depends on how we define achievment. Achievments will variey from student to student, and thats something I think more educators need to gain an understanding of. Too often do we categorize and label our students, we need to see our students as the individuals they are.

I also liked that you commented on homework loads. Homework is an issue we argued about in EPS390 with our prof. Some educators disagree with giving homeework, but I think most give it. When teachers assign homework, I think they have to know their students and how much they can handle. From my pre-internship experience, it seems to me that their are some students who could not mentally or physically handle homework, but many students lack the responsability to even atempt to complete homework. This is where I have an issue. While I was teaching in an average middle class school in Regina, I assigned homework only once. The students knew when it was due and what my expectations were, yet only about 5 out of 28 were complete on presentation day.

Now you might be thinking, maybe the assignment was too difficult. Well I was in a grade 6/7 split and the assignment was to design a poster about themselves and where their families came from. I gave 2 or more hours of class time to work on the posters and then it was homework. The fact that only 5 students were able to present on time seemed to me like a lack of responsability and a lack of caring. Once the posters were complete, they looked great and I posted them up in the hallway, but getting them done was a real challenge. There must be a way to make our students more accountable. Docking late marks didn’t seem to help.

By: selingma

selingma — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:20:57 +0000

Interesting Post. I personally like the idea of one-to-one student laptop ratios, and I also don’t think it will be too far away. I think that the point that you make about the possibility of too much work being expected to be done at home is a good point. Maybe one solution to this could be that students have one-to-one laptop use while at school, but they do not get to take the machines home. This would solve the excessive homework assignments, and may also help with costs of repairing laptops. Laptops can be expensive to repair, and are more prone to damage because of the portability. If a student is taking a laptop home everyday repair costs may become fairly large.

I do think it is important that technology is available for everyone, and one-to-one access is a great way to accomplish this.