Friday, October 03, 2008

Student View Summary

Here is the student summary of the 3 questions that were asked, complete with spelling and typos.

1. - having laptops in school
- creating a school network and instant messaging program from the students to use, somthing peer-to-peer, similar to msn or facebook.
- also a student to teacher, school based networks
- smart boards for every class ; implying more modern technology can make people more interested in the lesson and some students can relate to it and can learn faster, also having easy access to notes is a great innovation.
- using music/mp3 players in class (durung a study period not during lessons) ; with this students wouldnt be descussing to eachother about off topic conversations and students can consentrate more of their work.
- all textbooks on the computer ; having a virtual textbook would be much better, there would be less weight on childrens backs. because they wouldnt have to lug around all the different textbooks their teachers give them

2. - not very convinient ; many student going to enss (like myself) dont have high-speed internet, downloading pod casts would litterally take hours to download especially if they were video podcasts.
- if they were perhaps put on the school network it might be better
- not too many students own ipods so the entire thing seems redundent. you would be watching the videos on your computer.
- they could be used for reviewing lessons for texts and come podcasts could be created for a unit or exam review

3. - all depends on the class ; certain classes would obviously interperate more technology than others, any tech class will obviously be leading but math and science classes really benefit by the smart board technology, while classes like english wouldnt benefit much from smart boards and other technology, it would of course be used but not as much as other specific classes.
- everyone but maybe a select few, uses technology at home daily. there hasnt been a single person who hasnt used google search or wikipedia. obviously technology is a major advancement in everyones lives and is interperated into every students lives at home.

1 comment:

Reading Guy said...

These are excellent comments.

For students without high speed Internet - podcasts could be placed on memory sticks which could be signed out of the school library.

As far as communication we have started to use Google Apps (education edition) in our school.
Google Apps is free for schools and has no ads. It allows students and teachers to create documents(Word, Excel, PowerPoint), share calendars, email, chat, create web pages and more. It is secure as everything stays within the registered domain and cannot be accessed by people who do not have a school login. It is an excellent tool to provide elearning. It works on any computer including Macs.

"Frantic troubleshooting by an overworked staff versus someone else fixing problems smoothly. A sliver of server space per person versus a five-gigabyte chunk. Half a million dollars versus free"
Chronicle of Higher Education 1/11/2008

Many schools are registered. See video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPjJK6LZdM

See what it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJT3pagjd8s

See article
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY PARTNERS WITH GOOGLE TO ENHANCE E-MAIL AND COLLABORATION SERVICES
http://newsinfo.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=news_item_display&news_item_id=979928202