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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Los Angeles public school officials said they are taking back tablet computers given to students after finding security measures could be easily compromised.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/10/01/LA-public-schools-attempt-to-take-back-computers-given-students/UPI-74711380660420/#ixzz2gVlBnzZR
POLITICS.
It would be very interesting to check in 1 year to see who still has their working laptop ?
Politics of the day.
SLP has all but abandoned the idea of meaningful employment generation with this strategy. The working population demographic (those above 15 and those below 65 years old), and its need for training is being ignored by this Minister of Education and the Ministry of education -- this, despite manifesto pledges.
It would have been a lot better to create hotspots around the country by an internet provider and assist parents in getting their households their own computer. The SLP is hell bent in perpetuating a mendicant and dependent population.
The schools should have had well-equipped computer labs instead too.
A very significant difference too would have been the stipulation of classes designed to teach hardware repair and maintenance, as well as the creation of apps -- at the secondary/comprehensive school level.
That would make those comprehensive schools very comprehensive indeed. That too, would have served to attract a better catchment of smart students, instead of the what is being promoted by this new education minister at present.
I have a few questions.
(1)Do the students keep the computers permanently?
(2)Do next year's form four students also get lab tops?
(3)Every year will the government spend seven million dollars on purchasing lap tops?
(4)How many students who were given laptops have internet connections at home?(bearing in mind that it is unlikely that a household without a computer would have need for internet connection)
(5)How valuable(useful Apart from Microsoft word)is a computer in a house without internet connection?
(6)If the household has no internet connection then do parents have the money to pay for it?
NOW,if the minister of education believes that information technology capability is a vital skill that students should acquire then giving students laptops this is not the was to achieve this.
Robert Lewis could have done the following.
(1)Ensure that every secondary school has at least two or three computer labs(thirty five computers per lab)and schedule at least ninety minutes of computer training per student(class)per week For forms one to three.
(2)give form four and five at least one hundred and eighty minutes of computer use per week.In addition put computers in the school library and resource rooms.Through this arrangement students in forms four and five would have adequate time to do assignments including projects in the school.This means that there would not be the need to give students laptops to keep.(besides,right now the country cannot afford this huge cost every year.Trinidad can,we cannot.)
By the way,what happens when as a result of the laptops not remaining in the school,a student reports that the laptop is not working,is stolen or does not take it to school every day?(just a thought)
I don't see how this will help their grades though
@12.05 PM
I find he asked some very valuable questions and hopefully the ministry will take note of it.
It look like government jump on a idea without thinking on all aspects.
Why did the Minister NOT study or the Ministry NOT study the impact of computers in schools and take the corrective measures necessary not to repeat the mistakes of others AROUND THE WORLD!
Anonymous,@ October 1, 2013 at 4:36 PM, why, you are too kind!!
One year, too generous: I give them three to six months - then go asks about those computers!!
The purchase of millions of dollars of computers from BORROWED MONEY is simply one more scam by failed liberals who are covering their incompetence and mismanagement by bribery.
It is guaranteed that 90% of this computer time will be used to play games, e mail and go on Facebook. It may even be used to access pornography given the lack of descipline in St Lucia.
The computers will not be integrated into the curriculum. This is simply one more distraction from the descipline required to learn and was done on such a large scale to distract from the 70% unemployment among the youth.
It sounds cool it looks modern but that is how liberals bamboozle people. The fact that it is just throwing millions away to look good just as Kenny & Co have done in over 10 years of governance that has given us billions in debt, poor governance and a declining economy.
With pretty computers we will forget the destitution as we get baubles as our ancestors did in Africa when they sold their own brothers into slavery.
This new morally corrupt elite paracites know how to bribe us with our own borrowed money to keep us quiet.
What suckers we are.
Even as they do this they achieve their agenda of big salaries power and pensions. What fools we are with 25% unemployment and things to get worst.
There should really be a "like" button on the blogger's page.
Above, I "like" your comment tenX!
Looks like de government minister and those three stooges they gave to execute dat programme doh know what the hell they are doing. Dey minding Trinidad? Trinidad is rich. It gets lots of money from oil. Dat cyan spoil. So dey can afford to waste. We? We have to toil. We should plan more carefully than Trinidad.
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