Having been inspired to enter into the 21st century as an educator, I feel it is only appropriate to blog a bit in between sessions. First of all, I am ready to teach at a school with a 1:1 ratio of laptop to child. The expense you ask? Well I did not consider that this would replace all textbook costs so taking that in to consideration, it starts looking more doable. One middle school uses Acer netbooks for about $350 per student. They use almost all free resources online for research, instruction and testing in a much more effective manner than the standard pencil and paper. The high school uses all macbooks, which the students take home with them. Families are encouraged to buy insurance at the start of the year, but the school provides the laptop for free. When one considers the cost of textbooks, copies and a second set of books for home, this investment sounds much more reasonable. In fact, this sounds like we can actually educate again with real life applications as opposed to memorize, regurgitate, and forget.
The exhibit hall is a whole other story. The collection of attendees in this place is quite fascinating and might I add a bit smelly. I have been trying to overcome my tendency to freak out in a cattle type situation. I did come out with a cool skin for my laptop, with a dollar discount because it was cash only and I was a dollar short. Insert obvious idiom here. But in this case, it paid off!
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