Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Putting computers in school is a really dumb move (16 Dec 2005) Computers, if used correctly, can also help children work at their own pace. Peter is scathing, however, about the idea of putting computers into schools, which he describes as "a really dumb move." The problem, he argues, is that computers are then under the control of the school, expensive to purchase and maintain and, more importantly, out of the control of the pupils: "It would make far more sense to have an environment where kids own their own laptops. Laptops are now very cheap. IT is a personal thing - it's very difficult to work in a corporate environment where the machine isn't yours, so every time you want to do something it's a different machine." Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art67.htm Read 150 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Speckled worlds          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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