TECHNOLOGY

Wesley Thompson’s Blog

The idea of giving each student their own device is good, but I think that there are some flaws in the way that we are doing it at our school. For example, I believe that if the school is going to pay for an iPad they may as well get all of the students a laptop. A laptop is much more school compatible because it has Microsoft Office. Also, a laptop has USB ports so students can print off their work and put their documents on a flash drive.

Most of the seventh and eighth grade students would agree that is slightly unfair for sixth grade students to be the only ones to get the benefits of having their own devices for school. Most of the older students who do work on the computers in school would benefit more from the devices than the sixth grade students who primarily use them only to complete assignments online. For example, my design and modeling class allows us to use the same website we use in class to turn in assignments and finish them at home. I think that the school should have waited until they could give all middle and high school students devices.