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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Why the Big Investment in Hardware? « Diane Ravitch's blog

Why the Big Investment in Hardware? « Diane Ravitch's blog:


Why the Big Investment in Hardware?

The Broad-trained superintendent of Huntsville, Alabama, has purchased 22,000 laptops and iPads for the students in the district.
This is the same superintendent who contracted to send recalcitrant students to live in a teepee until they learned to behave.
The laptops and iPads are being readied for use this fall.
Nothing has been said about the curriculum that these machines are supposed to teach/facilitate/whatever.
I remember many years ago when I was on a committee at the National Endowment for the Humanities to pick