The links below more or less sum up where I think we are all heading towards an environment where students are encouraged to acquire and bring their own computer technology to school BYOT <br>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;">"So while the mish-mash of technology may prove to be challenging for
teachers and IT staff to manage and control, in the end this isn't
about management or control of learning. It's about helping students
use the tools and gifts they have at their disposal, maximizing that
potential and showing them new possibilities as well." </p>
(think of tablet style computers they take home, not smuggled away in class sets)<br><br>From my friends on the 1:1 OLPC computer trials.<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Caroline Meeks</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:00 AM<br>Subject: [IAEP] Bring your own laptop program<br>
To: iaep <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br><br><br><a href="http://beta.aalf.org/cms/?page=Global%20Story-%20Forest%20Hills" target="_blank">http://beta.aalf.org/cms/?page=Global%20Story-%20Forest%20Hills</a><div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://fhsdppl.wetpaint.com/" target="_blank">http://fhsdppl.wetpaint.com/</a><br>
<div><br></div><div>This is an article by a school system that decided
rather then buying students a laptop they would encourage all students
to bring their own technology to school everyday. The second link is the
school website. Looks like they are using Google apps and open office.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>
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IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>
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<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Keysborough Secondary College<br>
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