...Laptop use in the classroom has grown quickly over the years. The questions to ask is, are they benefitting learning in the classroom and should they even be used at all? With almost 25% of schools in the US employing laptop use (Holcomb 1) it seems like they are beneficial. Yet still there are many counter arguments. Which is why laptop use should be allowed but restrictions should be placed on them. Laptops have been proven to aide student learning and quality of work produced by students. Students using laptops are more involved in projects and over 70% of students say their more organized due to laptop use (Holcomb 2). Laptops have also been found to aide in overall student achievement. In a review and analysis by The Metiri Group students received higher scores in English, writing, language arts, and math due to laptops. This is especially true for writing, since about 75% of students using laptops during their writing did better than those who did not (Holcomb 3). Although there are many positive results because of laptops there are also instances where serve little aide to students. After over three years of research in Texas no statistical benefits from laptops were found and there was no rise in state test scores (Holcomb 5). Also demographics of a student determine how effective laptop use is. It was found that students who were encouraged to go to college found laptop use more effective than others that did not (Holcomb 5). Even though that information was found...
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...critical to both were File Servers, Dedicated Storage on the servers for the teachers for student information, Firewall(s), Router(s), and Switch(es), Wireless Access, Principal Laptop, and Student Records. 2. List your top five (5) risk exposures for which you believe this school should have specific risk mitigation strategies. My top five (5) risk exposures would be wireless access security, the principal’s laptop being left or stolen when she travels and the password being easy to guess, social engineering to gain access to not only student systems (laptops and computer science computers) but also to teacher and administrator systems, the use of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter while at school exposing daily activities and routines while at school or work in the case of the faculty, Physical security at the school protecting the servers, student data, school business information, etc. and strong password policy. 3. Given the potential risks that you identified, what IT security policies would you recommend be created by the school to help mitigate each of the identified risk exposures you listed in #2 above? First and foremost a comprehensive security policy that takes into consideration the variables and factors at the school. This includes students, teachers, physical access, layout of the school and property, security measures as defined by FERPA, HIPAA, etc. A password policy needs to be in place that stresses complexity, minimum length (recommendations) and recycling or...
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...because of his absences and his detentions from his Chromebook being dead. This is what happens when students aren’t aloud to bring their Chromebook charger to school, and having to use the libraries Chromebooks. Not being able to bring Chromebook chargers to school is a rule that has many downfalls. The rule that students can’t bring Chromebook chargers to schools needs to be amended. Chargers don’t come to school: devices should be fully charged daily. That is the rule on how we are not allowed to bring Chromebook chargers to school. There are many problems with this rule such as; people bring them anyway, most teachers allow it, electricity could go out...
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...Why Cell Phones Should Be Allowed in School By: Jakob Steinke People throughout the years needed to call their parents if they forgot something, and the teacher just won't let them use their cell phone!!! Cell phones should be allowed in school because they are very good for researching, you can call your parents in case of an emergency, a camera equipped phone can be used to take pictures and video related to school projects or develop photo essays,research in high school is a lot and cell phones can limit the amount of time you spend on the computer, and most importantly, cell phones can also be used as reminders for tests. Clearly, this essay shows that people should be allowed to have cell phones in class. The first reason why cell phones should be allowed in schools are because they are very good for researching. “They should be allowed in school! They help us and what if our laptops break?! What are we gonna do?! Book work? No we should use our cell phones!” www.Debate.org. I have researched on my phone about school related projects such as, Marilyn Manson, the human body, and Will Smith. As you can see, one reason cell phones should be allowed in classrooms is, that you can research on them....
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...announced the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program at the World Economic Forum. The concept was simple and appealing. Innovate a $100 laptop and distribute it to children in the developing world. No one can argue the power of getting kids access to computers/internet, and hence, access to a virtually limitless store of information, connectivity to the world and educational software. And for a technology optimist like Negroponte, the payoffs were obvious. But as the OLPC program has found out over the years, there is more to the success of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in Education, than just handing out computers to kids, and expect it to works its magic on its own. To begin with, the premises and approach of OLPC program as articulated by Negroponte are fundamentally flawed. OLPC stipulates that laptops be owned by children over the age of six rather than by schools. Efforts to reform curricula and assessment are viewed by the program as too slow or expensive, and teacher training as of limited value due to teacher absenteeism and incompetence, so laptop implementation must proceed without them. The program also believes that in the end, "the students will teach themselves on how to use the laptop. They'll teach one another, and we have confidence in the kids' ability to learn". The other flaw in this program is that the poorest countries targeted by OLPC cannot afford laptop computers for all their children and would be better off building schools, training teachers...
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...businesses are welcoming the idea, its pros and its cons. The Pros of BYOD Workplaces Organizations who implemented BYOD have several benefits such as: Enhanced Productivity. Mobile devices offer the benefits of convenience and speed. Sales executives can do their jobs while traveling, management can keep up with emails or review important documents on their tablets, and anyone can stay connected with their Smart phone. Smart phones have become a primary player in how workers communicate and share both work-related and personal data throughout the course of a day. Cost Savings. Within Bring Your Own Device environments, the costs associated with the personal device are just that: personal. Most workers willingly purchase their preferred laptop or mobile device, including their data plan, and simply want to use it for business purposes. This can mean significant savings for your IT department as compared with the investment in company-issued devices. Improved Morale. Consumers have strong preferences – iPhone...
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...Effects of smartphones in class The number of kids with phones has just been blown out of the water the last couple of year. Four years ago, if any of the students in class had a phone, it was a dial-phone that maybe they could text on. And now , it’s all smartphones. It’s been an issue in schools, colleges, and universities across the country for quite some time. In fact, cellular phones were an early problem when students were distracted by phone calls and texts messaging, but now smartphones can do just about anything your computer or laptop can, but in an easily concealable handheld device. Assalamualaikum and a very good morning to our respective teachers and my fellow friends. Today I will be talking about the effects of smartphones. Smartphones is a cellular phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an operating system capable of running downloaded applications. Nowadays, most of the students own smartphones. According to an article posted in Trends in Ed, 50% of students own it. The use of phones is usually discouraged on the first day of class by teachers and professors, or talked about in the class syllabus with consequences for even the first infraction. After all, since smartphones pretty much allow you to do anything you want these days, having them in the classroom might be distracting students more than ever. Smartphones allow students to text, check, and interact...
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...LAPTOPS V/S HAND-HELD DEVICES IN B-SCHOOLS- STUDIES ON USAGE, PREFERENCE AND BEHAVIOR PATTERNS Neeraj Kumar; Rekha Makhija; Prashant Iyer and Mohamed Sheriff Ameer neeraj.gjan14@spjain.org S P Jain School of Global Management | Dubai ∙ Singapore ∙ Sydney ABSTRACT: Today’s market has so many gadgets that consumers are almost spoilt for choice. Also a bulk of the consumers who are students have difficulty in choosing between laptops or handheld devices like smart phones and tablets for their day to day activities. In this paper attempt has been made to highlight how education and technology have evolved hand in hand over the years. We also have conducted an exhaustive research on the usage patterns of laptops and handheld devices among students to find their preferences and behavior patterns. We have restricted our research to Business school students because they are widely exposed to various gadgets as part of their academic learning and daily activities. This study helps us to gauge, compare and to an extent even predict the future of different gadgets in the higher education sector. The survey showed that though the current usage of laptops is highest for academic and leisure activities, their preference are more towards tablets. There are various business schools that have already adapted tablets as a substitute for laptops and books. With the rapidly increasing advancement in technology, the usage of tablets for education is expected to become more widespread...
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...The education system in China is very close the education system in Australia. The structure of both systems are very close but the requirements are different. In china, it is compulsory to study 9 years. After that, the children can continue their education or drop out taking up a job or continue what their family were doing before to make a living. In Australia, education is compulsory for thirteen years, when they can take up a job or take up a higher education. Compulsory education in China is spread over 4 sections of education, preschool, primary school, middle school and senior school. Children’s education in China beginning in preschool. Preschoolers begin arriving as preschool from 7:20 to 7:30 in the morning, in which they do not have breakfast yet. While at school, they are given breakfast to eat. Activities that they do include spending time outdoors as well as listening to fairytales, playing games, singing, dancing and drawing. In Australia, children can begin preschool at the age of four, given that they were born before the 1st of May. If the child...
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...expensive laptop and textbooks are no longer there. His hand fingers the gun as he thinks about the people who are responsible and how he can get revenge. Imagine being a college student, hearing of thieves that steal textbooks and computers. You think that having a legal gun offers you a sense of protection and it scares the other thieves. Now imagine yourself as a stressed out college student who has a hard time controlling your emotions. One night your future is taken away from you and your put in a difficult predicament. The gun that you own assures you that you can get revenge. College students should not be allowed to have guns on campus. Allowing a young adult to own a gun on school campus endangers the life of other students and people. As a mother, I wouldn’t want to attend a college where reckless young adults are allowed to have guns. Not all college students are mature enough to handle the responsibility and repercussions that comes with owning a gun. There is also the question of how mentally stable they are. The stress of working and college exams can cause someone to do something they might regret, and if that person is allowed to own a gun, they are not only threat to someone else, but to their selves also. If college students feel unsafe, a solution would be to improve security. As a college student, would you rather your peers own a gun or the professionals? If college campuses hired more police officers, they could keep a watch on the school grounds and...
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...Name: Tutor: Course: Date: Taught more than thirty decades ago, cursive writing has a famed and legendary past. It was once a vital element of American education but is now becoming an archaic artefact as technology advancement and the requirement of more regulated tests push it out of the education system. Cursive writing should be scrapped out of the education system for there is no need of wasting time and resources to continue teaching a skill that won’t be beneficial to the students in the near future. For many students in America, cursive writing is as foreign as the hieroglyphics of the ancient Egypt. In most colleges and universities, more students are increasingly using tablet computers and laptops to take notes rather than the old adage of using pen and paper. With the changes in technology, handwritten letters are rare to come by. Most people have changed with the dynamics of technology. Most communication is done using email, Skype and Facebook as opposed to manual letter writing. Just like calligraphy, cursive is unnecessary. Writing is seen as a means of communicating. Technically talking, we are past the times of physical writing as an art. Whatever can be created by a pen, a computer can recreate it much better. Welcome to the world of technology. If it can be printed then it can be communicated in the penned form. The argument that cursive writing aids in refining the motor skills of students is completely untrue...
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...Home School vs Public School Sondra Silverberg Essentials of Sociology Everest University Online Prof. Pamela Collins December 15, 2012 It’s 1845 an aristocratic gentleman and his wife are about to leave in their horse drawn carriage only to return in a few days. Their two daughters are preparing for their lesson with their teacher who resides in the home. Although, somewhat unheard of, this family made an exception and allowed their teacher to move into the home. During the pre-1850’s many children were educated in private schools or at home. In larger communities and towns grammar schools were readily available, attendance was not a forced issue and the parents had a right to choose how their children were educated without question or judgment. Today of course it seems odd to hear of a child being homeschooled although, with events such as Columbine and the incidents of December 14th, 2012 it really makes a parent ask the question is homeschooling a safer alternative to public schools? Are public schools living up to their expectations, or is homeschooling going to become a much needed option? Finally, after my research and further readings is this something that I should consider for my children? Columbine occurred when I was in my eighth grade year, then it was, “twelve students one teacher, and the murders were dead; plus twenty-one were injured” (Rosenberg). That was scary in itself; I remember thinking could this happen here? Schools started integrating safety...
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...Next reports rep or ts.informationweek.com M ay 2012 $99 2012 State of Mobile Security With 62% already allowing personal devices at work, 80%, require only passwords for IT’s juggling laptop policies and Wi-Fi policies and BYOD policies—and that means security gaps big enough to drive a semi through. Most, mobile devices that access enterprise data/networks, yet just 14% require hardware encryption, no exceptions. Let’s be clear: Mobile security is data security, and we must do better. By Michael Finneran Report ID: R4720512 Previous Next reports 2012 State of Mobile Security CONTENTS 3 4 5 6 7 9 11 11 15 20 25 26 27 27 30 32 45 Author’s Bio Executive Summary Research Synopsis Lessons Unlearned Mobile Device Policies: BYOD in Full Swing What, Me Worry? Breaking It Down Wi-Fi Policy Guidance Tablet/Smartphone Policy So What Are You Doing About It? Applications and Malware Laptops and Ultrabooks Security-Awareness Training Get Going on a Secure Mobility Initiative Don’t Sit Still Appendix Related Reports 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 TABLE OF Figures 6 Figure 1: Policy on Personal Mobile Device Use? 7 Figure 2: Personal Mobile Device Policy 8 Figure 3: Percentage of Employees Using Mobile Devices 9 Figure 4: Top Mobile Security Concerns 10 Figure 5: Importance of Mobile Security Initiatives 11 Figure 6: Percentage of Mobile Devices Experiencing Security Incidents Figure 7: Securing Wireless LANs Figure...
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...learning done in class. Computers have been programmed to do many things such as solve extremely difficult math equations or cite a work used in an essay with the idea that it will make life easier, but in the long run it has shown to be a major problem for future generations by causing students to be so dependent on the use of computers. By increasing the use of computers in classrooms, students due to lack of effort, lack of accessibility, and lack of computer literacy. Online courses and increased use of person electronic devices in classrooms have been an option for students for quite a while. Daniel T. Seaton is quoted stating, “Though free online courses are not new…[they] have reached an unprecedented scale since 2011” and many schools are now allowing personal computers to be used during class lessons (58). Since the use of computers has become so prominent, these leniencies allow students to have more access to use a computer and educate themselves on the usage of this type of software. However, it has been shown that students who take online courses or use their computer in the classroom have a lessened attention span and cause an increase in academic dishonesty. As described by William M. Baker et...
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...Research Assignment Report “Ever Lasting Laptop” Suge Meenadchisundaralinkam. Mr.Tamber BMI3C1 Monday November 23rd 2015 Table Of Contents Rubric……………………………………………………………………………………2 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..4 Procedure And Research Methods…………………………………………...5 Secondary Research (stats Can)…………………………………………….…6 Analysis of Secondary Research……………………………………………….7 Description of Primary Research……………………………………………...9 Good copy of Survey……………………………………………………………....10 Findings and Conclusions……………………………………………………….12 Interpretation of analysis……………………………………………………….16 Recommendations/Conclusion……………………………………………….20 Introduction The innovated product that my company has created and launched is the Ever Lasting laptop. Since, this is the first product that I have launched a general survey will be needed to get a general sense of the population. A marketing survey is a great way to help your team to grow and also for consumers to know that your product is going to be launched. This marketing survey will be needed to find out what consumers want in their laptops and generally where they buy their laptops. To add on, my survey will also give me information on the general income that the population has. The ever-lasting laptop with 10-year battery that I am releasing is generally for teens and adults. This is because; teens need computers to help them function in school and adults need laptops to make-work easier and quicker for them...
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