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real question is, do we have the funding in local schools to put
computers in the classroom?
Some ideas to get around the funding problem related to this concept
are:
• If each class is really striving for computers in the classroom,
have a smaller number of computers than students. Keep the computers
in the classroom in their own section of the classroom so that the
students can take turns using them. Some can work on their computer
skills, while others work on other assignments and wait their turns.
One problem with this idea is that there may not be enough room
to set up ten computers in the back of the classroom—especially
if you already have many students in the class.
• If there are one or two rooms that can be set aside for
computers in the classroom that the entire class can visit in turn—perhaps
even though the Computers being used are not computers in the classroom
where the children regularly study they will still have computers
in the classroom (to some extent), and can learn from them and take
their tests on those computers.
• When I was growing up, even though technology was nowhere
near the place it has come to be today—we still worked on
computers in school on a regular basis. These computers in the classroom,
were called computer labs, and every class had a set time for computer
lab. These classes were taught by one teacher for every group—a
teacher who had expertise in computers that the other teachers did
not. If a school simply does not have the budget to put computers
in the classroom, they might consider computer labs as an alternative.
Other than the ideas above, there are not many options for getting
more computers in the classroom, if each school could afford to
provide tiny laptop computers for each student I am sure these computers
in the classroom would be a priority item for schools to obtain.
But such technology is expensive—not to mention that such
technology is updated so often that the computers in the classroom
would have to be replaced every few years at least.
The best of all these ideas for a school with a limited budget
is to have a computer laboratory, maybe even two, where the students
can work on computer skills and learn to do research on the Internet
(as well as in the school library) and how to use other types of
software that is practical and common in the new, technologically
advanced world we now live in—like it or not.
Yes, computers in the classroom would be great to have. But we
must also face the reality that our schools in America are suffering,
our teachers are underpaid, and our resources and supplies—other
than computers, such as textbooks etc. also need to be updated—and
we have trouble finding the funding for even that. To have computers
in the classroom would be more expensive than raising teachers salaries
or replacing old, used books for new ones.
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