Each classroom is equipped with a desktop computer with fast Internet access and a digital projector. Each mainstream teacher is supplied with a notebook computer by the school while each IB teacher is supplied with a Blackberry smartphone.
Originally, the other wireless is supposed to open to all for accessing the Internet and the school intranet. Each students can then use their mobile devices to these purposes. But complains have been received from many teachers that students are using their smartphones and notebooks to access Facebook, msn, nba.com, etc. all the time even during lessons which comes to the concern of the school management. Since then the network is not open to students until suitable measures are devised against the undesirable accesses.
What does the school feel are the "suitable measures"? It seems to me that many schools are missing on instruction on e-citizenship (no criticism to yours, mine definitely is!). But it seems to me school administrators and educators in general (us!) need to stop feeling so threatend by technology and start wondering why our students are looking at facebook or rather, if it is actually a problem or if it is a call to reevaluate how we are targeting their education.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. But I also don't when the school administration will also think so.
ReplyDeleteTSE Chi Kui (Andy)