I didn't know where else to post this but I thought it was something we should all be happy about. Birmingham, Alabama may buy 15,000 Linux laptops for schools.
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/12/...ls_will_b.html
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I didn't know where else to post this but I thought it was something we should all be happy about. Birmingham, Alabama may buy 15,000 Linux laptops for schools.
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/12/...ls_will_b.html
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Its about time the schools in Alabama got some computers.
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They should rather hook kids on Desktops with edubuntu than on XOs in my opinion.
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Well my Geography never was any good, but I thought Alabama was in America, one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Seems odd that the kids there are getting a Laptop designed for the poorest kids in the world. But then again I never understood the logic of giving (or is it selling?) starving kids in war torn countries a Laptop, unless they are allowed to sell it to buy food (always assuming their rulers don't sell them first to buy Military Hardware).
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I think its great. The only economical consern with running Linux has been that support cost more, but as pointed out in the Ubuntu-book, this is only a matter of supply and demand. Once the kids learn Linux, there will be more to meet the demand and the cost for Linux support will go down.
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http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D90MMGNG2.html
Guess what? As of today, these laptops are now supporting the windows platform.
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Yeah, but they didn't even buy real PCs...Originally Posted by Jive Turkey
Its about time the schools in Alabama got some computers.
This says a thing or two about Alabama's education budget.
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More like it says something about the guy who made the decision.Yeah, but they didn't even buy real PCs...
This says a thing or two about Alabama's education budget.
They could have purchased relatively inexpensive pcs in the $400 range and set up computer labs in each school with enough computers for 1 class at a time and it would have been money better spent and much cheaper, IMO.
My wife is an educator and has worked in a school where there was a laptop for each student and each teacher and felt it was an enormous waste of time and money. It was a constant distraction and expensive to maintain and did little to improve the GPA of the student body.
She now works in a school with students in a computer lab that students from each class attend twice per week and the lessons use the technology as a tool to reinforce what is being taught in their regular classrooms. It's a much better use of time, money, and helps education rather than distracts from it.
Technological Toys aren't going to fix the educational problem in America. Parents insisting their children study hard and get good grades is the solution.
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