With the ⤽Escuela 2.0⤳ project in Spain, finally, the kind of laptop to be delivered to the student is the same kind of laptop I wanted to use in Extremadura one year ago.
A year ago, when we decided to go with our own pilot project ⤽one on one⤝ in our schools, there were several discussions, and finally the kind of delivered laptop was in a higher category. Anyway, I always had the same feeling, the laptop should be a subnotebook because of these reasons:
- Ethic: giving to a student a gadget thatñ(TM)d be more expensive than his text books is something I think we should not do in public schools. Even if we can afford it.
- Weight: More than 1,5 kg would make the laptop hard to move from one classroom to another, or hard to take it home.
- Safety: As the father I am, I wouldnñ(TM)t like my sons carrying a luxury product in their bags everyday when they go to the school.
Anyway, after more than a year testing laptops, I must confess I still havenñ(TM)t found a subnotebook good enough to be used at schools. Appart of ergonomic issues, there is a test I always do, I go to my sons favorite web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20090228231903/http://www.oyunlar1.com:80/index.asp
There are several cars and moto games that require some work to the CPU and the graphic card. I hate it, but there are many teachers who like to use those awful and bad developed web flash sites that require a lot of graphic work to the computer. If they canñ(TM)t browse these sites or the students can not play their favourite web games, they will reject the laptop.
Up to now, I haven’t found what I’m looking for.