So... Instead of helping other schools that are gravely short on supplies, they buy unnecessary and expensive items in bulk from the most overpriced manufacturer (the most overpriced that people actually buy, anyway)? Makes perfect sense.
If any senator wishes to read this, I suggest a SUSA bill. Stop United States Act. If the internet needs to babysit your lawmaking, Then there's something wrong.
So... Instead of helping other schools that are gravely short on supplies, they buy unnecessary and expensive items in bulk from the most overpriced manufacturer (the most overpriced that people actually buy, anyway)? Makes perfect sense.
Yes, it does make perfect sense; cause you see, in america, we have to do everything in the most costly, and inefficient manner possible, or else we'll be thought of as cheap assholes :laugh.gif:
At the school I went to(public HS in new jersey), there was 2400 students during my freshman year. They're also gonna be getting ipads for everyone soon(or at least I heard that they were)... what a waste... :sleep.gif:
My old school has the nightmare of Windows XP *shivers*, we worked on Dell computers that were like massive bricks.
Try using a PC that ran windows 98(or 2000, can't remember), solely for playing storybook weaver...
Holy ****, I just had a nostalgia attack... :laugh.gif:
My district is the same way, spending money on a bunch of useless crap, then turning around and saying, "Oh, we don't have enough moneys for pencils and markers so you need to bring those and also we won't give you any paper."
There are so many better things that could be bought, such as replacing super old text books and the like.
It is stupid. My school is sponsored by Adidas and we have Pitbull coming to our school every so often to donate. Instead of wasting precious money on iPads, we spent our money into expanding our performing arts, making a whole new building. We are also making an Olympic size swimming pool and auditorium. With the auditorium (not the pool), we will have a total of 4 buildings on campus. We are also making 2 new "sub-schools" if that makes sense. One being -blank- College and another -blank- school of technology. I attend a charter school, if that makes any difference.
My high school is rockin voyager desktops with an Athlon 2 2.2ghz dual core, 2 gigs of ram, some ancient as **** ati graphics card, and windows xp. And you know what? They work fine. Meanwhile at my old elementary school they got shitty laptops and put them in carts to be mobile workstation type deals for the class, and smartboards, but all that did was distract the class. I am learning so much more in high school with just old books and paper than with computers, so much easier to concentrate. **** trying to integrate 21st century tech into education, that is bs that just wastes money. The only other thing that sapped more money from our elementary school's budget was special education, those 20 or so lucky bastards got treated like kings but never actually learned anything.
Hmm, a school with the budget to give almost every student an Ipad.... and for my graduation party, all our school was able to afford was taking us to Incredible Pizza. *It's like chucky cheese for middle aged kids, without alcohol*
This is not only a bad financial decision on your schools part, but this also puts the school at great risk of losing government funding when something goes wrong.
On a side note, if I got an Ipad from my school, the first thing I'd do is jailbreak it.
When I need to return it, just restore it :smile.gif:
To all the people saying we need to buy our own pencils and crap but we get this.
Schools don't just get a pile of money from the feds and get to do whatever. The government gets to say what that money goes to so they can say 75% of this money goes to technology.
Tablets are for the most part useless for learning our school considered it. But no matter how often you use that tablet anyone with a laptop will kick your ass at typing speed. Tablets are for the most part useless other then they are more mobile and easier to read in the case of the kindle. The kindle would make sense if they can buy them in bulk cheap I mean books are not cheap and if you make students pay for damages a kindle would last a hell of a lot longer then a book and be easier on peoples backs.
We had some teachers push to have ipods per student but our head IT flat out asked them if they had brain damage was quite funny.
Another thing we talked about doing was using a linux thin clients on the computers but we determined the network would not be ready for something like that. It would essentially be a chromebook.
Hp even if you hate them gives schools massive discounts on computers in bulk for education. We get our schools laptops 300$ cheaper then retail and get a new model every 4 years with the price of the old laptops subtracted out.
Tablets are for the most part useless for learning our school considered it. But no matter how often you use that tablet anyone with a laptop will kick your ass at typing speed. Tablets are for the most part useless other then they are more mobile and easier to read in the case of the kindle. The kindle would make sense if they can buy them in bulk cheap I mean books are not cheap and if you make students pay for damages a kindle would last a hell of a lot longer then a book and be easier on peoples backs.
I agree with all of tis, but there is a major flaw with E-Ink Pearl, which is what Kindles use: if not used, even for as little time as 24 hourse, the screen will permanently freeze. I'm not sure why this happens, but it does, and that makes it unfeasible to use in classrooms.
I agree with all of tis, but there is a major flaw with E-Ink Pearl, which is what Kindles use: if not used, even for as little time as 24 hourse, the screen will permanently freeze. I'm not sure why this happens, but it does, and that makes it unfeasible to use in classrooms.
I have no heard of this issue with the screens maybe this was only with the older kindles. I know tons of people in nooks and kindles who never have to do that.
I have no heard of this issue with the screens maybe this was only with the older kindles. I know tons of people in nooks and kindles who never have to do that.
It's with all the first-release Kindle 3's, I don't know about any others, but me, my grandmother, my mom's friend, and a bunch of people from my dad's work have that issue.
My school has iPads and tablets, but we have to rent them. So right now, I'm using a crappy Windows XP HP laptop with a core 2 duo and 2gb of Ram. There's a little pen I can use to draw on the screen and that's pretty much it. The freshmen got iPads and all they do it games nonstop. I mean, I play canvas rider when I'm bored at free but they play in the hallways, on the bus, and of course in class (which I admit I have played games in class before, but not all the time). iPads are nice but when you force the rest of the school to deal with crap laptops, it just makes resentment and a freshmen class of iPad obsessed idiots. Oh and they don't have to carry around textbooks cause they have them on their iPads....
One thing that people need to realize is that a lot of the school funding is done by the district the school is in. Each state decides how much money each student is worth. In my state and district, each student is worth $6000. So every year the state gives the school system $6000 per student. Now, if the citizens in that district decide that they want to pay extra taxes to have more school funding, then that is their choice. The district next to ours gets $10,000 per student because the district is full of rich people. That's why some schools are getting them and others aren't. Next year my grade will be receiving tablets of some kind in the place of large, heavy textbooks.
Yes, it does make perfect sense; cause you see, in america, we have to do everything in the most costly, and inefficient manner possible, or else we'll be thought of as cheap assholes :laugh.gif:
At the school I went to(public HS in new jersey), there was 2400 students during my freshman year. They're also gonna be getting ipads for everyone soon(or at least I heard that they were)... what a waste... :sleep.gif:
2400 students @ $500 per cheap ipad = $1,200,000
And they always say their budgets are too small... uh huh, keep whining...
Try using a PC that ran windows 98(or 2000, can't remember), solely for playing storybook weaver...
Holy ****, I just had a nostalgia attack... :laugh.gif:
There are so many better things that could be bought, such as replacing super old text books and the like.
i5 6600k 4.6ghz / MSI 280X / 8Gb 2666 DDR4 / Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 / TX550M / 500Gb 850 EVO / NZXT S340 / Corsair K65 / Corsair M60
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa???
This is not only a bad financial decision on your schools part, but this also puts the school at great risk of losing government funding when something goes wrong.
On a side note, if I got an Ipad from my school, the first thing I'd do is jailbreak it.
When I need to return it, just restore it :smile.gif:
Now it's get whatever laptop/tablet you want (excluding those under the minimum specs) and let them install their R.A.Ts on it.
And yet you have steve jobs as your avatar.
i5 6600k 4.6ghz / MSI 280X / 8Gb 2666 DDR4 / Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 / TX550M / 500Gb 850 EVO / NZXT S340 / Corsair K65 / Corsair M60
What about Wozniak or microsoft or xerox or ibm? They all played a part.
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Schools don't just get a pile of money from the feds and get to do whatever. The government gets to say what that money goes to so they can say 75% of this money goes to technology.
Tablets are for the most part useless for learning our school considered it. But no matter how often you use that tablet anyone with a laptop will kick your ass at typing speed. Tablets are for the most part useless other then they are more mobile and easier to read in the case of the kindle. The kindle would make sense if they can buy them in bulk cheap I mean books are not cheap and if you make students pay for damages a kindle would last a hell of a lot longer then a book and be easier on peoples backs.
We had some teachers push to have ipods per student but our head IT flat out asked them if they had brain damage was quite funny.
Another thing we talked about doing was using a linux thin clients on the computers but we determined the network would not be ready for something like that. It would essentially be a chromebook.
Hp even if you hate them gives schools massive discounts on computers in bulk for education. We get our schools laptops 300$ cheaper then retail and get a new model every 4 years with the price of the old laptops subtracted out.
FTFY :wink.gif:
I agree with all of tis, but there is a major flaw with E-Ink Pearl, which is what Kindles use: if not used, even for as little time as 24 hourse, the screen will permanently freeze. I'm not sure why this happens, but it does, and that makes it unfeasible to use in classrooms.
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I have no heard of this issue with the screens maybe this was only with the older kindles. I know tons of people in nooks and kindles who never have to do that.
It's with all the first-release Kindle 3's, I don't know about any others, but me, my grandmother, my mom's friend, and a bunch of people from my dad's work have that issue.
You get a GIG of ram, LUCKY,