Voters in my district defeated a levy last November. The purpose of the levy was to provide money for technology enhancement in classrooms across the district. It didn't pass, and students are paying the price for it.
I am fortunate to have the use of iPads in my classroom, but an iPad is by nature a personal device; it is not designed to be shared by multiple numbers of students. It does not have the capacity to create personal user folders to house documents or presentations, and as a result, there have been numerous occasions of student work being deleted or "revised".
Today I was trying to have students write a script to use as they record their Element podcasts in the next several days. But the lab we were in had only Dell minis and many of them wouldn't allow the kids to log onto the server and then wouldn't allow them to get to the website area where I had sites bookmarked for them to use.
We need a technology levy to pass!
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