Ed. Tech EDFI 560

thoughts on one on one laptop situations in schools….http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2007/05/10/one-to-one/

there are a ton of possible pros to this situation, but with every pro there is usually  con…laptops for every student would put tons of information at every students finger tips, not to mention the ease at which students could do things such as take notes and do research.   while computer technology is expensive, the computers would cut back on the money spent on books every several years. One of the main problems i could see coming from it is one of the most obvious…it would be nearly impossible to monitor what every student is doing all the time, are they playing games and talking to one another or are they actually typing up notes on what you are saying. It would be the teachers responsibility to make sure that the laptop did not take the place of a person; still demading interaction.